I am utterly disturbed by the clinical staff, mostly the provider. I was referred here by another provider to establish primary care as I have quite a few chronic health issues. Over the past year, I have been able to maintain most of my health...
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I am utterly disturbed by the clinical staff, mostly the provider. I was referred here by another provider to establish primary care as I have quite a few chronic health issues. Over the past year, I have been able to maintain most of my health issues and even come off some of my medications. I firmly believe the fact that, "I live in my body every day, I know how I feel and I know when something is off, more than any doctor ever will." Today, the provider did what most do and tried to put me on medications that I have worked very hard to come off of that I have established previously that I do not need anymore. She also told me 3 times when sharing my story that "that doesn't make sense, I have NEVER heard of that.." 🙄 Of course it doesn't make sense because she didn’t even try to make sense of it, she assumed. She just met me today and hasn't been a part of my health care or chronic issues for the past 12 years and doesn't have any of my records to base her "opinion" off of. There were also some areas of care that I have changed and/or discontinued over the past 6 months, and the provider questioned me and asked "if I was confident in those decisions and wanted to 'make sure."" Again, I live in my body and I know how I feel. Not to mention, I also have a medical background. I will not have anyone, especially one who knows nothing about me, tell me what my issues are/aren't. I live in my body and I know how I feel and her first impression of establishing care was horrid and left me a bit distraught when Ieft. I couldn't believe how she acted and spoke to me. At one point, when discussing a specialty care, she even put her fingers in her ears and said "this is what I do when it comes to that" and rolled her eyes up, stuck her tongue out, acted all dumb, and said "I dont even listen to that, I don't even get involved in that, NOPE." I'm not sure if this is how the entire clinic practices, but I would reccomend for anyone to go to a clinic that allows you to advocate for yourself and use your voice and to not just assume and be told, "I've never heard of that, it doesn't make sense." Well, get my medical records, read them, and you will see you are one of the several who also haven't heard of "it" and that it does make sense to my other providers. I felt as if I had no voice and less than 5 minutes into the appointment I just shut down because I saw I was getting absolutely no where fast with her and just wanted to get out of the room with her as I had never been that uncomfortable with a PCP before.
0/5 - disturbing - disheartening - do NOT recommend.
Provider initials: K.K.M.