I have been a client at this clinic for almost 20 years and it saddens me to be leaving this review…read moreand well as to be leaving this clinic.
I was seen here recently for an annual physical as I have every year since starting there. I am, fortunately, I very healthy woman, and so my visits are usually only this one time a year. I also happen to be an ER nurse so feel confident in what health questions should be asked, what assessments should be done, and what tests should be ordered during an annual physical.
When I called in to make my appointment, I was notified that my former PA, Darren Roth was no longer with the clinic. The turn over rate of this place has been INSANE over the past few years. It is a revolving door of PAs and MDs. It's disappointing because I have had some wonderful doctors and PAs there. So when I called in to make my appointment, it was disappointing to be choosing from someone new again.
The doctor enters the room and introduces himself and starts asking me questions. So far, this is all normal outside of the fact that I'm not sitting on the exam table and I'm not in a gown. I chalk this up to maybe people have had complaints about this process, and so they now let patients remain in their clothes during the questioning part of the exam. Fine.
The doc then asks me to get on the exam table and listens to my heart and lungs, checks my strength of my arms and legs, pushes on my abdomen, and then tells me to go get my labs drawn. No skin check, no breast exam, no looking in my eyes and ears, no looking in my mouth, no palpating my neck/glands. These should be standard assessments during an annual physical.
I ask the doctor if he's going to do a urine analysis, and he says, "you only need to do that if we're testing for STIs. Do you want STIs testing?"
There is actually a lot of data about that can be gathered about your health by looking at the urine, primarily kidney function, so his response took me off guard. Now, like I said, I'm pretty healthy, so I just let it go and didn't insist on the urine test, and instead just got my bloodwork.
A few days later my bloodwork results come back and I look at them on the portal. One of my lab values was on the high side (my creatinine), but it wasn't outrageously out of the norm. This can be attributed to many things that are generally benign when looking at this test. There are other lab values that correlate to the creatinine that can help determine kidney health and functionality and these lab values were all within the norm.
I then get a phone call later from doctor Korneluk saying that, "you have stage 2 kidney disease and need to come back in for more bloodwork and a URINE TEST."
First of all, my creatinine was 3/100 of a point above normal. That does NOT mean I have kidney disease! Secondly, if he had ordered a urine analysis like I recommended the first time, I wouldn't have to come back for that.
No doctor looking at one abhorrent data point would jump to the conclusion of stage 2 kidney disease. He did tell me that he studied to be a Sports Medicine doctor, so maybe he's new to reading lab work, but calling a patient and using verbiage like "disease and failure" only illicit fear and unnecessary stress. Fortunately, I know enough to know that I am almost certainly NOT experiencing kidney failure and was just dehydrated and possibly in mild rhabdo from playing 5 hours of sand volleyball the night before.
So, the exam was terrible, he didn't order the right tests and spent a total of about 7 minutes in the room with me. He used fear mongering language over the phone to tell me I need to come back in to pay for more labs, and then I found out he charged me over $450 for this experience!
My insurance only approved to pay for half of that visit because there is NO reason an annual physical should cost that much.
As someone who also works in healthcare, it is SO disappointing that this type of thing is happening. I expect providers to hold themselves to a higher standard.
Go somewhere else for your primary healthcare.