My mother had just moved to St. Helena and was almost 89 at the time. As she does not drive, I took her to see Dr. Mueller and waited as she spend 15 minutes with him, her presenting problems being mild dementia (for which she takes Exelon patches) and hypertension. While sitting in the waiting room, Dr. Mueller's nurse, very concerned, showed me my mother's blood pressure reading, which were particularly high, especially when I consider than she had suffered recent strokes. Fifteen minutes later, my mother walked into the waiting area and I asked her what medications the doctor had prescribed. These are the facts: Dr. Mueller, after one visit and without seeing my mother's scan or neurologist's records, informed her that he "did not believe in Exelon" (which had kept my mother stable for years) and had not written a prescription to lower her blood pressure. Without Exelon my mother could have compensated to the point of no return and Dr. Mueller had no clinical basis to refuse a medication prescribed by two equalized neurologists. Nor did he have any justification to refuse to prescribe an anti-hypertensive for my mother, especially in light of her history of strokes. I was later told by one of his colleagues that "sometimes a doctor and a patient don't hit it off." Is that any justification for Mueller's egregious\, unprofessional neglect? Whether he liked my mother or not, he had an obligation to treat her to the best of his ability. And this he did not do. I have worked with doctors on three continents and I have never seen such willful (and I suspect racist) neglect on the part of any physician. Do not go to this man, especially if your are European and wear a Star of David! This man put my mother in harm's way and that is unforgivable. read more
