Where to start?
How about in the summer of 2020 when I came for my annual appointment, which I was hesitant to do because of Covid, the entire staff and Dr. Cherenfant weren't wearing masks. His office in Jackson Heights is in the epicenter of the epicenter, where only a few months earlier the entire community was traumatized by our neighbors and loved ones succumbing to Covid, with ambulance sirens heard throughout the day taking our friends and family to Elmhurst Hospital, and not a mask could be found.
As a patient, he never looked at my chart before hand, I always found him to be rushed, and extremely bad about giving the proper context to understand his statements. During and after every visit, I was flustered, confused, and never got to address all the subjects I wanted to address as a middle-aged woman quickly approaching menopause with a long and difficult history with fibroids.
Why did the recommendation for timeline to remove a hormonal IUD go from 5 years to "no it doesn't need to be removed now, they last a long time,"? Don't know! Couldn't get a word in edgewise, and he failed to notice (or care) that I was flustered and confused.
After prescribing me the mini-pill for 5+ years, suddenly at one visit he said "you shouldn't be on that medication long-term," and failed to clarify what "long-term" meant because for me, 5 years is long term!
When I came in for a yearly visit and once again my chief concern was that my uterine fibroids seemed to becoming more symptomatic, he asked "no history of uterine fibroids?" Excuse me? You mean other than the history of uterine fibroids and the painful surgery to remove several, documented on your charts?
After ordering an ultrasound to get a fresh look at what was going on with the fibroids - the first one ordered in over six years - when I contacted him to ask if he had reviewed the scans or report, I got the run around. No confirmation that had even looked at them, and he mixed them up with a CT scan a general surgeon had ordered (which of course had not been sent to Dr. Cherenfant) to see if I had a hernia. So here I am with what was initially thought to be a lower abdominal hernia that appeared only days after Cherenfant's ultrasound, and he won't even confirm he looked at the scans. My guess is he didn't.
I have zero confidence in Dr. Cherenfant and the only reason I remained in his care for so long was because his office is conveniently located to me. I suspect the lower abdominal bulge is related to my fibroids, but Dr. Cherenfant has been such an unhelpful doctor I would rather get my scans and files and seek a new doctor to review. I worry I'm going to need a hysterectomy, and the last doctor I want involved in making that determination is Dr. Lucot Cherenfant. read more