My husband & I have six collegiate level degrees between the 2 of us, including an MD (husband is a local IND organ transplant surgeon, & PhD (neuroscience). We recently moved here for his work & I was transferring my care from a pain clinic in our previous city where I had been a patient for 8 years.
I would never set foot in this doctor's office if you are a functioning member of society, who attempts to use as little opiates as possible to manage your pain so you can function.
If you are looking for a pill mill, or a physician who thinks you need to take opiates everyday (sometimes pain isn't everyday, so there is no reason to take opiates everyday, if you aren't hurting every day). Well then, this is the place for you, you can join the 8 out of 10 patients I saw in the waiting room (while waiting for 2 hours for a 9:15am appointment) who looked as if they hadn't showered in 2 weeks.
Primarily, any physician who continuously e-mail's you 3 times a week post-appointment stating, "write me a google review, here's the link below (it's been a month since I saw her)," is not a physician to be taken seriously. You are a pain doctor, not a nail salon or medspa, 1,2, or 3 times emailing me for a review is acceptable. 3 times a week, months after my appointment is incredulous.
If a MD is 2 hours late before seeing you for your a 9:15am appointment (my experience, & standard according to the plethora of other reviews echoing the same), that MD is simply not showing up to work on time.
Behind on patients later in the day is understandable, 2 hours behind on your 1st, 2nd or 3rd patient of the day: you are either irresponsible (consistently late to work), or have no regard for anyone but yourself (& show up to work whenever you feel like it). From the exponential reviews stating she was hours late for their appointment, I suspect it is the no regard for anyone but herself.
Additionally, this MD had beaded bracelets extending halfway up her arm between her wrist & elbow, and then proceeded to do the examination without gloves, touching other things (computer screen to point to her scribe), and then me, 100% unsanitary. There is no reason to wear at least 20 bracelets on each arm in a professional medical setting. I don't want your germs for my husband to track back to his immunosuppressed patients.
And the scribe, oh Lord the scribe...what is the point of the scribe if you have to stop talking to me for minutes at a time and direct her what to do?!?!?
I could go on, but this MD is an insult to the profession, and I'd be here all day if I wrote everything awful about my experience with her.
Run as fast as you can away from this clinic (it's not a clinic, it's a pill mill), to a different pain clinic, I thought I had stepped into a documentary about West Virgina in the height of opioid crisis. read more