Where to start. It has taken me exactly one year to write this review due to grieving and anger from a transfer that ended in an ectopic pregnancy leading to removing a fallopian tube.
I was a patient of Dr.Scot Hutchinson where I saw him due to unknown infertility, the small percent of us women who just can't conceive naturally. In the beginning the office and MD were amazing. It was after my transfer that everything took a turn. I transferred what my husband and I found to be our little miracle. To hear that my transfer was confirmed, I received a call with attitude from a front desk clerk; not even a licensed practitioner. Dr. Hutchinson did than call me to tell me I was indeed pregnant and to follow up with my normal OBGYN when they saw fit. This would be when you go in for your first ultrasound. So absolutely no monitoring from that point on. This is where my nightmare started.
I started to develop severe abdominal and perianal pain. I called the office multiple times for again not a licensed practitioner to call me back and tell me "this is constipation pain take Metamucil" again I am not a high risk patient, still did not want to bring me in to be monitored, just to take Metamucil. A week goes by, I never receive a phone call from Dr.Hutchinson. I get the same excruciating pain and at this point I call out of work and beg for the clinic to see me. I go into the office for them to do labs, and Holly, again not a licensed ultrasound technician does a vaginal ultrasound on me to tell me IT IS NOT CONSTIPATION IT IS AN ECTOPIC PREGNANCY. THERE IS NO ONCALL PHYSICIAN TO VERIFY, Dr Hutchinson could not be reached by phone and I have to go to the ED. At the ED I wait for hours for the worse news of my life to be delivered. Now when you have an ectopic pregnancy there are two choices: to remove the fallopian tube or to take a medication to basically abort the pregnancy. I was naive and in such distraught I just wanted to hear what Dr.Hutchinsons advice was. After all this I still trusted him. Still no phone call, and I get a call from Holly stating I "most likely have a faulty fallopian tube and it is there opinion to remove the tube." So I did.
Till this day, I have never once heard from Dr.Hutchinson. Not even to call and see how I was doing, check on my surgery, nothing. How I felt? I felt like as soon as he got his pay day, he was done with me.
The worst part I am an RN and my husband was a medical student.
Coming back home to California I met with multiple REI physicians, which monitor their patients closely for the WHOLE FIRST TRIMESTER. As it should be.
To the staff and licensed practitioners of this office: DO BETTER! LISTEN TO YOUR PATIENT! CHECK ON THISE WHO HAVE LOST! Just because you already got your pay day does not mean we are still not under your care, and aren't your patient. Shame on you. read more