I have been a patient of Dr. Rodriguez-Padilla ever since I started my new job and my insurance changed. She has been a complete and utter disappointment since day one. When I have appointments with her she sends me to specialists instead of treating me herself for basic things. She also does not listen to me or pay attention when I explain my past medical history to her. She is very rushed, does not have time to meet with me about my chief complaints, and spends the 15 minutes I talking about things unrelated to my visit.
Last year when I first met her, I brought in all of my current medications from my previous providers for her to review since this was our first visit and I was told to do this when I scheduled the appointment. She went through each one and stated she wouldn't prescribe any of them. Not even birth control, so I had to wait to see an OBGYN. I've never had a PCP refuse to write a prescription for the pill.
In February of last year, I was in a car accident and I was taken to NW hospital for treatment. I was told to follow up with my PCP after discharge. I had hurt my foot, twisted my pelvis, and broken my tailbone. I had the appointment for a lab follow up and did not mention to her about the accident but was unable to sit for the visit since I was in a great deal of pain. I did not ask her to treat me as I was going to a chiropractor for my injuries. When she asked why I was not sitting, I told her what happened and she immediately told me that the NW hospital ED was wrong, she would not be doing the ED follow up or treating me. She told me to contact my car insurance to find a doctor, even though I told her I do not have medical coverage on my car insurance. I was being seen by Dr. Jim Westerman, a chiropractor, who found the broken bones and referred me to physical therapy.
2 visits before my most recent visit in July 2020, she got angry with me because it had been 6 months since I saw her and I did not have current lab work. Prior to the appointment, neither she nor her staff gave me any orders for lab work or I would have had labs drawn prior to our appointment. She refused to refill any of my thyroid medications since I did not go to the lab.
Since COVID-19, the care I have received has gotten progressively worse. I went in in April because my asthma had gotten worse and to review the lab work from the time before. Also since seeing Dr. Yell in February, I had developed a lump in my breast. Dr. Rodriguez Padilla spent the entire visit discussing me using windex on my feet prior to entering my home and how to safely shower to wash off covid---neither of which were my chief complaint for the visit. She refused to discuss my asthma with me. When I called the next day for an inhaler and prednisone, her make MA condescendingly asked me why I didn't ask her for this during our appointment the day before. I told him that she left the room after giving me the windex talk and never returned and had her nurse tell me she did not want me back in the office for 9 months. She did call in an inhaler for my asthma but would not discuss prednisone with me. As a result of her poor care on the day I presented with multiple chief complaints (asthma, lump, thyroid) I ended up going to Banner Urgent Care on Ina/Thornydale 3 times before trying to get better before they told me I had to go back to my PCP because I was not getting better and that she cannot refuse to see me for 9 months.
When I finally did see her, blood clots were coming out of my nose with thick green mucus. This is a direct result of her refusal to treat me in April when I came into the office for my asthma and allergies before it got bad. She gave me antibiotics and referred me to an ENT for a balloon sinuplasty and pulmonologist (who cannot see me until 12/1/2020) for my asthma saying that she does not treat asthma or allergies. I told her that I have already had sinus surgery and that the procedure she wanted me to have would not work since there's nothing left in my nose to expand. After meeting with Dr. Kang, he confirmed that since my upper and lower turbines have already been removed, I am not a candidate for the ballon sinuplasty that she sent me to him for. He had me to a CT scan just to make sure and there are no changes to my sin I'm used since my surgery in 2004. I am still sick and battling the same sinus infection that she could have helped with in April.
I've left messages with the office manager and emailed 1730.NH.Feedback@northwestmedicalcenter.com without responses or return phone calls so clearly no one with NW Allied physicians cares about crappy patient care. She is such a disgrace to the medical profession. read more