Today was my first visit with Dr. Pane. My previous two gynecologists retired while I lived out of state and I was sort of dreading starting over with a new GYN.
Happily, I instantly felt comfortable with Dr. Pane (as well as her medical assistant - wish I'd gotten her name, and she was great).
For the last 20 years, I have had the same complaint at nearly every gynecological visit, which was always attributed to one particular condition without much investigation aside from labs. This has never sat right with me, and I often have felt unheard, dismissed, and concerned that something was being missed. I also felt like my doctors sort of blamed me for my condition, when I have tried everything I can think of to improve it.
That all changed yesterday. After listening to my concerns, Dr. Pane did a more thorough exam than I'm used to having. She gave me a potential diagnosis that FINALLY explains my daily experience. Out of the 6 gynecologists I've seen in the last 20 years, not one ever mentioned this.
Even though there isn't necessarily a permanent fix for me, I have peace of mind that I have an answer now, a better idea of how to treat symptoms, and a doctor who truly listens to me. Thank you Dr. Pane!
(I won't dock Dr. Pane for this - as another reviewer noted, Dignity Health does not use the Epic/MyChart system and Dignity's portal system is horrible. Dr. Pane worked around that by emailing me my labs THE NEXT DAY instead of making me wait until they were released in Dignity's portal system. Dignity's portal system does not autorelease lab/imaging/ procedure reports for patient viewing and often holds them for as long as 10 days until the physician goes in and releases them, whereas MyChart makes results immediately available, often before the ordering physician sees them. I moved from out of state and the system I came from used Epic/MyChart - I requested Dignity to connect their portal system to my out of state health system to transfer my gynecology records well over a year ago and they said they were working on it, but nothing ever happened. So Dr. Pane was not able to access pathology reports she needed from my old health system and had to base her treatment plan for me based on my faulty memory of what the reports said, just FYI). read more