Lousy bedside manner, arrogant and doesnt care what a patient wants, doesnt care what the parent thinks, bullies nurses.
My 19 year old stepson went in with gut cramps and this dr wouldnt give us a CT because he feared we didnt have insurance (we were caught up in CoveredCa garbage after we got the boot from our plan that terminated on Dec 31) so he said all that CT would do was run up the bills and he said it was appendicitis and wanted to jump right in and take it out. Well, when you want confirmation that the appendix is the problem, you arent worried about bills and when you KNOW you will have insurance you arent worried about it.
Well, I know my kid, I know that if we didnt get confirmation that it WAS appendicitis, he'd let them take it out then he'd complain all month or longer that it wasnt that and it was something else. Surely, thats what the kid did. I fought all day for the CT, every nurse was afraid to undermine Dr's authority because they said he was nasty and rude. Indeed he was nasty and rude. We even tried to take part in deciding what pain medications to use, no way was Dr Miyata going to have that. He insisted we use Dilaudid. Well, that stuff causes BAD gut cramps. We didnt want more gut pain. And the withdrawal from it was HORRIBLE. He even tried to dope him up on it before the kid even HAD any real pain. The kid was breathing perfectly yet he TOLD the doc he was feeling pain at an 8 or 9... nope at an 8 or 9 you are huffing, puffing, sweating... the kid was fine and Doc said, "I dont understand what your problem with pain medication is". I said, "Have you ever heard the side effects of narcotics? Up to and including death? I would at least like to talk about this." But no, he just had a real arrogant attitude. I am a mom who likes to feel like my concerns and feelings are valued and that I am part of the decisions. Not that way with this fella.
So, after surgery, my stepson had terrible pain for about 3 weeks, bled from his intestines and out his rectum, had 3 trips to the ER. We didnt want to go back to this surgeon but we had to. He was very rude and didnt want to even tell us that he left clips in our kids body after the surgery. Apparently this is common but we had no idea until we had a CT done. So, it was possible he was having a reaction to the staples. We asked the surgeon what the clips are made out of, he had no idea. He just knew some type of metal. Not even the polymetric kind that are less likely to irritate. This, again, is to keep costs down. Ugh.
So it was a long, dragged out miserable battle. It didnt have to be. All the way through we had to wonder if the appendix was even the cause to begin with since the pain dragged out way beyond the span of time an appendectomy would have caused. Could have been a bad case of colitis or something. We had no CT so we had no idea if he really had Appendicitis.
Bottom line, just get the confirmation that you're going under the knife for good cause. Then other questions down the road wont even come up. read more
