Dr. Padilla is a caring, articulate, and compassionate surgeon. He leaves no detail unturned, and listens to his patients... even his more difficult and stubborn ones, like myself.
I was having issues over a weekend, after my mastectomy and tissue expander surgery, that resulted from a major fall two weeks out of surgery. He and his nurse, Vanessa, were following up with me closely after the fall with office visits, phone calls and texts.
I started swelling and having pain, and by the next morning it was getting much worse. Instead of being like most doctors and having me go through hours at an ER, and risking me being around others in an ER that could get me sick, he had me come to their office ASAP. He took care of what needed to be done in their procedure room, and was scheduling me for surgery to remove the expander and insert a spacer and antibiotics until my already scheduled other side mastectomy and bilateral DIEEP Flap surgery less than 14 days away.
Fast forward a little over two weeks, while I was in the hospital for my second mastectomy & reconstructive surgery (it was an 11 hour surgery), I was not being cared for by the nursing staff once on a regular floor after being moved from ICU. Dr. Padilla left his office and came to the hospital to see what was going on and nip it in the butt. When I say "nip it in the butt", I mean it literally. He wasn't in there maybe 5 minutes, and had left to go back to his office to care for his other patients.... But not before obviously taking care of hospital business at the upper management and executive levels there. He wasn't gone that long before the Director of Nursing for the entire hospital, a NEW attending physician, and a NEW Charge Nurse were in my room getting things taken care of, and making sure that it was not going to happen again.
He cares! He is an amazing surgeon! And to top it off, his entire staff from the receptionist, to the nurses, office coordinator/manager, and the fellow - they are all just as amazing and caring. I have to give a special shout out to Vanessa (his nurse), as she is so sweet, always there to listen, responding to texts and calls no matter the time or day. She is my all time favorite nurse, and I am old! So, that is a lot of nurses I've had in my lifetime!
If this Google review lets me attach pictures, I will attach a picture of my "Sunday office visit", along with a "Thank you gift" and personal handwritten note from Dr. Padilla that he gave me at my follow up visit this week, because he felt bad for what happened at the hospital on Floor 6.
He has no control over the hospital, nursing staff at the hospital, or what happened to me. But, it upset him and he felt it reflected on him as my surgeon through that hospital. It did not in my eyes, but this is how caring and personable he is. read more