This idiot was my mom's attending physician at Methodist Willowbrook. My mom, who was relatively healthy and who walked without a cane or walker before her fall in June 2022, went to the ER of this hospital after the initial treatment hospital, Memorial Hermann Cypress, screwed up her blood pressure medications which caused multiple over-medications in the nursing facility she was subsequently transferred to for rehab. All the ER docs at Methodist Willowbrook were great EXCEPT for Dr. Dollar.
His first act of negligence was to blow off getting a patient history from me and my mom. Rather, he asked for the discharge paperwork from Memorial Hermann Cypress and Cypress Pointe Health and Wellness Center (which needs a separate bad review) and said he would use those to dictate his notes. Well, trouble was, both sets of paperwork had errors.
I guess because of her age (89) and because she was out of it in the ER from an overdose of BP meds and because she was recovering from procedures to stop internal bleeding from the previous week's fall, he diagnosed her (I later found out) as functionally quadriplegic!! WHAT??? She fractured her pelvis but that wouldn't affect her long-term mobility.
Unfortunately, Dr. Dollar was her attending physician once she was admitted. The procedures done at MH to locate and stop the internal bleeding resulted in blocked blood flow to both feet, a condition called "blue toe syndrome". While at Methodist Willowbrook, the condition was causing her excrutiating pain and I asked if he couldn't give her more pain meds or a sedative or something.
He then said to me, in front of my mom, "Well, we could put her on palliative/hospice care. She's not going to make it through this anyway, with her multi-system failure." WHAT!!!? She didn't have multi-system failure! She was perfectly fine before she fell and she was clearly going to recover with the proper treatment!
After that, I filed a formal complaint with Methodist and tried to get a new attending, to no avail. His subsequent visits to her room lasted about 5 seconds as he had no interest in doing a proper history and proper exams.
A couple days in, when she was clearly not well enough to be discharged, he walked in and said, "Well, her other doctors say she's ready to be discharged." I replied, "No, she's not!" At which point he walked out of the room and issued discharge orders!!!
I've since spoken to several nurses about the experience, and they all said they've had problems with Dr. Dollar. read more