I'll start by saying I've been going here for years, and two of my three pregnancies, it USED to be a welcoming and comforting place. I believe Dr Sherman is very knowledgeable, but I've learned after my last experience, that I most likely will never return. I trusted in the dr wholeheartedly up until the point where professionalism & customers care was literally no where to be found at this business.
I went in for my check up at 13 weeks pregnant, ready to find out the sex of our baby. They couldn't find a heartbeat so they moved me to the ultrasound room. After what felt like forever, I was told "I'm sorry Im just not seeing what I should be", I was left with "I'm going to have Karla call over to the hospital this morning and see if they can get you in, for a second opinion. Don't worry about making another appointment for now" (literally that was all that was said). Fast forward, I waited at home all day, never got a call. I called Karla (the MA) who told me she was too busy to call and schedule the appointment at the hospital. UNACCEPTABLE. I've seen how they operate, I've worked in a similar setting before and when someone's possibly miscarried, you don't put it off. I can't tell you how many times I called -- and of course they don't want to let you talk directly to the doctor (I get it, they're special and you're not). But over the weeks leading up to this, the MA made my life hell, I was tired of her giving me run arounds, bad advice, and not having any true knowledge or even just being HELPFUL in general! She gives no true effort, just excuses and bs reasons. I finally got an appointment after blowing up the office phone the rest of the afternoon, I wasn't having it when they let me go home thinking the worst and didn't even make it a priority to quickly call the hospital and request the appointment that morning! I went to my appointment where they can't tell me any results until they send it back over to Dr Sherman's office (the RN told me it would be over there no later than 11am. (I waited all day!!!! Calling and no one knew anything, including clueless Karla. I mean, I was in such a distraught state, because I believed I already was caring a dead baby in me. The next day I waited around town incase I needed to go in at the hospital, Around 2:30pm I got a automated text from the hospital, that I was scheduled for an appointment by my doctor for tomorrow at 6;30am (what I thought was for the D&C) but NO one called, not a word since I last contacted the office. So I mustered up the energy to call and figure out WTF is going on, for them to tell me Karla double booked me under the same name (two profiles), the appointment was not for a D&C it was for the ultrasound I already went to!!!! So now I'm confused as everything, I call and the office says they're busy and so I asked for the doctor to call me back rather than Karla because they knew at this point I was fed up with her "assistance". He tells me "I'm so sorry I JUST got your results and if you can, I can do the D&C TOMORROW AT 6am or __pm if your comfortable with that"
IM SORRY WHAT. No apologies, no results read, no compassion or empathy. NOTHING!!!! & I tired stopping him in a calm way to explain my frustrations but I never expected for him to just blow me off like he did and be so oblivious to why I was ACTUALLY upset. He NEVER DID tell me "I'm sorry, you've lost your baby, this is the next steps" NO, I was given excuses and it felt like they just wanted to get me off the phones. Nothing was ever explained to me until I got to the hospital the next morning when he asked the charge nurse over text "I already talked to her about the procedure, what questions does she have still" (she showed me this after hearing my experience over the last 48hrs. Hell, she treated me better than anyone at GTWNOBGYN.
IVE NEVER BEEN THOUGH SOMETHING LIKE THIS. But I was NOT signing shit until he covered everything I needed to know.
It was probably the worst experience, it caused a lot of trauma for me, I felt alone, uncomfortable, uninformed, uncared for, unheard!!!
As far as everything else,
The office is okay, they're always behind usually 40-60min... waiting is okay at doctors but this is not ideal for clients (and for me unacceptable). They want you to be no later than 10-15 min late but will make YOU wait and hour without saying anything.
The staff was pretty shitty at one point, the office manager has no customer relationship experience & is just a "yeah, okay, uh huh, thank you" type, like it's all good. They're probably overworked but this place needs something to change with staffing FOR SURE.
I'll be finding another doctor after all of this, I know nothing will get done in a timely manner and there's too much room for error on their end. read more