Sean Shanahan An Academic Physician with a Smile…read moreMy doctor referred me to a specialist. The specialist couldn't see me. So he referred me to Dr. Shanahan. A doctor he had only ever spoken to once. By phone. A doctor I had never met. A stranger passing me to a stranger, on the strength of a single phone call. By every conventional measure, the worst kind of referral. I didn't know it yet, but I was exactly where I was supposed to be. My appointment was at 9:00 a.m. Dr. Shanahan came through the door at 9:01, apologizing for being late. One minute. And he apologized. Isn't it supposed to go the other way? Isn't making the patient wait the thing doctors do? Not this one. He was different. And it showed. He looked at my foot the way a good mechanic looks under a hood. Clear eyes, clean plan, plain English. No hedging. No throat clearing. Every answer a real answer. Every step above and beyond what I came in expecting. Somewhere in the middle of it, the room shifted. This stopped feeling like a medical appointment and started feeling like a conversation with a friend who happened to know what he was doing. Then I looked at the walls. Star Trek. Posters, prints, the Enterprise, the crew. And one poster I recognized immediately. Battle of Brawn. Kirk versus Gorn. Arena. My favorite episode of Star Trek, hanging right there on his wall, in the office of a doctor I had just met. A doctor I shouldn't have ended up with at all. Of all the offices, of all the doctors, of all the posters a man could hang on his wall. We hit it off on the spot. He walked me into his second office. The Star Wars room. Vader, the rare Revenge of the Jedi pre-release poster, Rogue One, Stormtroopers along the wall. The afternoon opened up from there in a way medical visits almost never do. He told me he has two degrees from Temple. One in public health. One in podiatric medicine. What came through, without him having to say it, is that he didn't become a doctor for the prestige or the money. He became a doctor for the Hippocratic Oath. The real one. The one that lives in how a man behaves, not in how he signs his name. I told him that. He smiled and told me a story. On graduation day, Temple had scheduled the two ceremonies at the same time, in different buildings. He had to pick one to attend first. He went to public health. By the time he got to the medical ceremony, his class had already taken the Hippocratic Oath. So the man who has lived that oath every day of his career never actually stood up and recited it with his classmates. He tells the story with a smile. A beautiful irony. You can learn a lot about a man from how he holds a story like that. I did. Which brings me to the shelf. In the Star Wars room, on top of a long cabinet, there's a small crowd of figures. Every one of them a gift from a patient. A Stormtrooper at one end. A tiny Dunder Mifflin office under glass. Luke Skywalker in his X-wing suit. A signed print from The Orville. A little white wolf. Ken from Street Fighter. A Star Wars lunch box anchoring the other end. No two alike. Different shapes, different stories, different kinds of love. Each one a quiet thank-you from someone whose life he touched. Standing there, looking at that shelf, I understood what I was looking at. Not a collection. A congregation. I came in for a foot infection. I walked out with the strange and quiet certainty that nothing about that morning had been an accident. Not the referral that wasn't. Not the second referral to a man my specialist had spoken to once and I had never met. Not the 9:01. Not the Gorn. Not the shelf. Some appointments are appointments. Some are plot developments in the larger story you didn't know you were living. That's not a small thing to say, and I don't say it lightly. I'm not a man who reaches for superlatives to fill a page. If I write it, I mean it. And I stand behind every word. Dr. Shanahan is the real deal. Smart, thoughtful, funny, and completely committed to the craft of being a doctor in the oldest and best sense of the word. If you need expertise in podiatry, you won't find anyone better. And if you're lucky, you'll walk out of his office the way I did. A little better in your body. A lot better in your spirit. And knowing you just met a doctor whose word holds.

From the owner: The Podiatry Clinic, PA is owned and operated by Sean D. Shanahan, DPM who has 20+ years of…read moreexperience in foot, ankle and lower leg medical and surgical problems. We now have an office Bradenton and are offering our services to the community. In addition, we use the latest technology to answer your calls and allow you to schedule your appointments without having to wait.

Where do I begin? My fiancé & I were headed to a baby shower. It started raining before we could…read moreget to the car. His umbrella was broken & wouldn't close all the way & it punctured the palm of his hand. The puncture was DEEP & his tendon was poking out. So this was not just a simple cut but an emergency. We were scared, he was bleeding everywhere. We went to the nearest hospital (Manatee Memorial) in the emergency department. We checked in at the front desk & not long after they brought us to the back to clean the wound & do x-rays. So far, it was going good. Then a RN came into our room leading us to a different room claiming once we head that way the team will be able to get us out of here in no time. We weren't concerned about getting out of there faster we just wanted to make sure everything was okay. Once we got into that room we waited 2 hours before anyone came to check up on us. Mind you my fiancé has a very painful wound that is hurting him like CRAZY & actively bleeding. I understand there is a process of doing things, but the LEAST that nurses & staff could do is update their patients. We don't care that it is taking long. We just feel like we were forgotten about & that's the worst to feel in an emergency situation. Once someone did come see us, they mentioned how they forgot about us because we moved rooms. That is not what we want to hear. This is not a laughing matter. This person was also the one to numb his wound. So my fiancé has been in excruciating pain for 3 hours already. The doctor comes in shortly after saying that there isn't a hand specialist on call (since it was a Sunday) & that we should just head home & contact Dr. Van Vliet at Blake tomorrow. We felt like that couldn't just be it. There was a hole in the palm of his hand. Shouldn't it be stitched up? Not once did any one specify that this wound wasn't emergent. I don't know if there was miscommunication or what? But we felt like there had to be more to this. We headed to Blake Hospital the next morning where we explained this situation & said we're here to see Dr. Van Vliet. We're also not dumb. We know there's ways to do things. The lady at the registration gestured us to head to the emergency department at Blake which was a few walks away. We headed to the emergency department & the man at the front desk was UPSET and gestured us BACK to the registration. At the point we were both frustrated we are getting sent back and forth & NO ONE WAS HELPING. No one wanted to understand the situation. Once we got back to the registration the lady seemed upset. As if we were the problem. She didn't bother to ask if we had an appointment or not. She just wrote down a phone number & told us to call it. THAT'S IT. We head out of the building to call this number & that number said Dr. Van Vliet is not a "hand specialists" & to call Coastal Orthopedics. At this point my fiancé & I gave up. No one was helping or leading us in the right direction. So, we decided to head back to Manatee Memorial in case there was a hand specialist on call since it was a Monday now. Welp, we got there & after checking in & being in an exam room for 3 hours. A doctor comes in (Nicole) & immediately said "What do you want me to do here" in the most condescending voice ever. Whereas my fiancé replied "Stitch it up? IDK?" She laughed & said "Stitches? You don't need stitches" We were confused. NO ONE specified that he wouldn't need stitches. No one told us that his wound would heal on its own. We value our time & it felt like the doctor thought we were there to waste her time. We not here to make your day hard. There was NO communication to us that his would was not emergent & he did not need any stitches. They didn't even tell us how to properly care for it & signs & symptoms to be wary of. This has been super upsetting. We wouldn't have wasted our time & energy if someone would've told us this the day before. If you're a nurse reading this.... don't be afraid to update your patients. We see you walk by our rooms ignoring us & have us waiting for hours. We understand there is a process but just acknowledge us.

This review is specific to labor and delivery and postpartum. I cannot speak any more highly of all…read morethe staff who work in these departments- they are truly all angels and I commend them for their amazing talents and dedication to their work. Many people had warned me about Manatee Memorial which made me incredibly nervous as a first time mom, but the experience we had with every single staff member we encountered could not have been better! I am truly thankful for all the staff and would recommend delivering here to anyone.

I wish the PA there was a pcp. I can't say enough good things about the staff there. From the…read morereceptionist to the staff in the back, they are all excellent.

Super disappointed! Went today with my sick husband around 330 pm . Not one person there and they…read moresaid they were sorry they we only taking appointments and they couldn't see him till 7pm! THEIR SIGN CLEARLY SAYS WALKINGS I've been here several times and they were GREAT! But this was not good. I live about 20 mins away and pass many other places , just like this one better.

From the receptionist to the Nurse and finally the Nurse Practitioner, I give 5 stars for courtesy,…read morepromptness and professionalism! They all had these qualities and a high level of empathy. My situation was dealt with and fully explained to me on what to do besides taking the prescribed medications they are having me pick up and take. When my Medicare supplement suggested places to go Two Rivers Urgent Care and Wellness had the best rating in Bradenton and they didn't let me down. I am well satisfied.

Great care. Great staff! Best urgent care! They have a…read morevariety of medical services and care is always fast!

I came to MCR Dermatology for a skin cancer screening to be sure I had nothing problematic…read more I signed in and almost immediately was called to go back. Jessica, the nurse took my blood pressure and some information. Dr. Denise Guevara did my exam. She was extremely thorough and took all my concerns seriously. I have had many cancer screenings before but Dr. Guevara was the very best. I definitely recommend MCR-Dermatology with Dr. Denise Guevara. She was extremely knowledgeable, did a thorough check and was very nice making me feel comfortable. Jessica, the nurse, was also excellent and very nice. Overall, my visit couldn't have been better!! 1/5/22

Akin to visiting a 3rd world clinic where you are treated like an indigent nobody and left to wait…read moreridiculous amounts of time and still not see anyone. Not sure about the actual health care because after arriving 15 minutes early for my appointment, I sat in the waiting room for 45 minutes until I could no longer wait. People were jammed in like sardines in the waiting room and also all along the wall outside the waiting room. Ridiculous in the age of Covid that this place overbooks to this degree and expects people to wait 45 minutes or more. There was one lady with expiring insurance who had already waited over 2 hours. I have no idea how much longer I was going to wait before seeing someone because in my mind 45 minutes was plenty long enough. After 45 minutes I asked that my co-pay be refunded to my card and I left. This is dermatolgy, not like it is an emergency room where something unexpected like a bus crash impacting an ER might be the cause of a long delay. Nope. This long delay was due simply to the greed evident when signing up way more people for appointments than they can reasonably accomodate. This is part of the MCR (Manatee Rural Health) network now and it shows. Same lack of caring, hard if not impossible to get someone on the phone or line up referrals or get a straight answer. I was also told that this appointment was only for a 'meet and greet' type visit with a doctor, not what I thought I was booking and just a blatant cash grab to get you to return so they can bill your insurance again and charge you a high co-pay. I was there to get a suspicious small growth removed. It doesn't take a 'meet 'n greet' to just go ahead and take care of the issue I am there for.

Most caring doctor I have ever encountered. He takes the time to listen. Comes up with a plan for…read moretreatmen. The staff has gone above and beyond to help me. If there is a bad review, maybe it's just a mean person!!!

I have been going there since 2019. Dr Yaza helped me very much. The lady at the front desk needs…read moreto be replaced. She is very rude and don't ever make the mistake of asking when the approximate time they will see you after you are more than a hour past your appointment time. She will go off on you for asking. I am now looking for a new doctor. I don't need to get that attitude from a nasty person who doesn't belong in customer service