I fought to see Dr Barletta. National Spine & Spine Centers don't let you see another Dr. after…read moreyou've seen one in the practice. I had a bad experience w/ Dr.Brouillet, the first Dr. I saw after my pain mgmt. Dr of 14 yrs. retired from it because of what the government was doing. Basically, Dr. Brouillet didn't help me but laughed in my face and said I would be medicinally abandoned and wouldn't be able to find another Dr. He was right.
I should have listened to the operators who said I can't see him but it didn't make sense to me after what had happened, and Dr. Barletta was educated at Georgetown University, Washingtonian Top Dr: 2002, 2012, 2013, etc. Surely he would be a calm, rational, compassionate, good Dr., not one to make bizarre mistakes like what I've experienced since leaving my pain mgmt. Dr. who that was all those things, and more.
After weeks of waiting while going thru the hell of withdrawal, I finally got to see him. But the visit didn't go as I thought it would. Instead Dr. Barletta was angry.
It started with the front desk. The woman right away brings up the torture of seeing another Dr. in the practice, and I started getting upset. Watching, she gets this big sadistic smile like Tim Curry in Home Alone 2, funny in the movie, not in real life. Than the appointment is okay.
Instinctively, I grabbed a bunch of tissue, I knew I would have a big cry later. The bathroom looked dirty, there was a big trashcan where you set the urine sample that looked like it was covered in things like urine.
Dr. Barletta was the opposite of what I thought he would be. Angry, rude, impatient. While talking to him he grabbed the papers out of my hand, when I tried to explain to him what happened with a Dr. that gave me medicine with morphine that was making me sick, and they wouldn't listen to me, saying, " the medicine works". He angrily interrupts me. I had records from the last Dr. that didn't take a urine test, and he alludes to the fact that I must have somehow not brought the urine test results, and storms out of the room. I would say he had an aura about him of a dark storm cloud.
I then saw a bright face amongst all this confusion. I believe it was Dr Barletta's nurse, she was great, she was there to help me.
I think it was her work that got me the appt.
He asked to have records sent that I didn't bring and then I heard him angrily say, "then I will decide if I see her."
I knew he wasn't my Dr. he would find something he could use in the records, and he did.
For awhile I tried to figure out what I had done wrong. There was a tragedy in my family and I've been fighting shock which makes it very hard to focus, like my brain has turned into a rock. Plus going thru painful withdrawals is no picnic, I'm not myself. But now I don't think it was me. I believe this latest horror involving doctors, pain mgmt., the government, and being treated like drug addicts, all had to do w/ Dr. Barouillet and the way National Spine and Pain is set up, and, of course Dr.Barletta.
