To say I am both deeply disappointed and dismayed is an understatement. I had such hopes to fall under the care of a GI who is not only a doctor but a professor, thinking, finally my unexplained digestive issues will be addressed and receive the quality of care you would expect of a medical professional that reflects Dr Stephen Riordan's public resume. Instead I was confronted with an individual who despite being friendly and polite displayed no apparent interest in my health issues and was just eager to rush and finish the appointment like he really wanted to be elsewhere and not talking to me. At this point, I felt this heavy feeling develop at the pit of my stomach and very let down, that this is the appointment I have been waiting for weeks, and this is what it amounted to. Still at this point I had hope and wanted to give Dr Riordan the benefit of the doubt , that he is a busy man and started asking questions regarding my digestive issue and I basically got silence or dismissive answers in response, with zero elaboration or effort on Dr Riordan's part in an attempt to comprehend my problem or symptoms or give any sort of insight. He is a doctor and it's his job dealing with and treating people with health problems like mine, but what I got was the equivalent insight of talking to some random nobody on the street about my health issues. I saw this appointment was going nowhere and stopped talking, and finally Dr Riordan spoke and his answer was, you need to come in for an endoscopy and colonoscopy in a few months time. My response was, but what about now till that time. I expected some insight, some treatment, anything to help reduce my symptoms. Nope, nothing, zero. That was basically the end of this appointment. Basically it was a sales pitch and poor quality one at that to get people to buy and have colonoscopies and endoscopies done on them. I accept the diagnostic value of such procedures, but if I simply wanted an appointment to order an endoscopy and colonoscopy, I wouldn't have sought the services of a professor in this field. What I got was simply a poor quality sales pitch
masquerading as a doctor's appointment. This experience is bordering on distressing for me as I really had high expectations and would finally receive the care I have been seeking for so long and got the total opposite. read more