My child had a fever, and was immediately written off, via telephone, for having another ailment. How does one properly diagnose a patient without even looking at him? My son is prone to the influenza, and has had it consistently since he turned 4. In fact, Dr. Bearss was the one that prescribed him Tamiflu all those times. His response when I brought that up was, "There are zero cases of the flu." ZERO. A "medical professional" said, with total confidence, that there are ZERO people with influenza this year. Mind you, there's over 144,000 residents here. But nobody has the flu right now. His tone reeked with annoyance that I dared to question him. I no longer trust Bearss. He has betrayed his Hippocratic oath to the medical field. Part of that oath is to do no harm. He ignored my sick child, showing that oath means absolutely nothing. A doctor needs to look at patients! Misdiagnosis IS HARMFUL. He was completely unwilling, dismissing him and brushing him off. After 3 or 4 phone calls with the Novant office I was finally able to get my son both a flu and strep test from the car - again, nobody has yet to actually look at my son, believing he is simply a walking plague. I received a phone call from the nurse an hour later, and would you believe that I have the only resident in all of Rowan County to have the influenza. How special for my child! I also hope that Bearss sends me flowers for doing his medical job for him...I didn't even need a degree! I truly feel bad for all of his current patients that have been misdiagnosed from his "professionalism," therefore not receiving proper treatment, simply because he's too entitled to actually care. My son didn't need a phone call; he needed a DOCTOR. This experience was both exhausting and infuriating, and he lost both my son and my husband as patients. read more