We were referred to Dr. Multani because the first Neurosurgeon we met with was not covered in my moms "network". I will never go back to Dr. Multani's office and wouldn't suggest you do either!
They did get us in quickly, so kudos to them on that.
Mu aunt was unable to be there yesterday and being that we are a close family, we asked the nurse if we could record the consultation. She said, "I will let the doctor know."
When Dr. Multani came in to the exam room, we immediately began recording the audio. At some points I did pick up my phone to film some of the perception tests my mom was doing to document how she was doing.
Didn't sit well: Dr. Multani was going over my moms medical history with her. At one point she states, "Is there anything you haven't had?".. Ok a bit rude and unprofessional but we brushed it off.
We then proceeded to her office to look at the MRI scans and discuss options in further detail. My grandma and I both put our phones on her desk face up, right in front of her and began recording as this was the most important part of the consultation. Not once did she address that we were recording.
Didn't sit well: She told us the tumor was 4cm. I asked her what she would compare that to as none of us new how big 4cm really was. She said it is comparable to a tennis ball. We later looked it up, 4cm is comparable to a golf ball. I don't know about you, but I don't think that a tennis ball and a golf ball are anywhere close in size especially when your talking about brain tumors...
While discussing the severity of the tumor, she really was rather cold and didn't cushion or ease anything in. After discussing our options she created this high sense of urgency and stated that she was going to work on sending in an approval for the Craniotomy immediately! We left our disk with her and headed down to the car, all of us extremely shaken up about what we had just heard.
Not even to our car yet in the parking lot, we receive a call from her "office manager" Monica. I got on the phone and she began accusing us of "recording the conversation without consent, which is illegal." I explained to her, we did have consent from the nurse. She argued with me, "No the nurse said you needed to ask the Doctor". Immediately I got irritated that she was accusing us for something that we did ask and received consent for! She heard my frustration and immediately changed her story, "Oh, I was just trying to get both sides of the story"... after she has just sat there and argued with me telling me that my story was incorrect. Really?
She then calls back later telling me that she spoke to the nurse and that exactly what I said had happened but it should have been common sense for me to ask the doctor. Pause, question.. If it is not common sense for your nurse, why would it be common sense for us? She then let us know that we left our disk. I told her that Dr. Multani may need it to receive the approval for the Craniotomy. She said she'd call us back.
She never called back and we later stopped by to pick up the disk. She handed us a manila envelope which we found when we got back into the car had a letter in it terminating the doctor patient relationship due to the "recording without consent, which is illegal" signed by Dr. Multani. You have got to be kidding me.
After Dr. Multani made it seem as if we don't have any time to waste, she terminates the relationship and wastes an entire day of my mom's precious time. And why? Because we did receive consent to record. This office is extremely unprofessional, insensitive and rude! I would recommend getting a second opinion. read more