I had a number of biopsies performed by Dr Ioannides. Some of them indicated cancerous tumors, which will require treatment. When I called and asked that the test results be sent to me, I was told that they could not do that. I then said I would drive there and pick up the results. I was told to not bother. They could not provide them to me. I asked to speak with Dr Ioannides and was told that I had to schedule a meeting with him.
So I scheduled a meeting to get a copy of the results and speak with the doctor. I discovered that the biopsies performed on my face did not include any type of margin analysis. I was told that biopsies do not include margin analysis, which I already knew was standard procedure. Given the fact that I've had a large number of surgeries on my face, one of my goals was to minimize the number of times I have surgery. I learned that it is possible to get margin analysis with some biopsies, and that margin analysis could in some cases eliminate the need for follow-on surgery. I wanted to better understand these special cases to see if they could apply to me sometime in the future. When I asked the question, "Can biopsies include a margin analysis?", Dr. Ioannides refused to give me a straight answer. Instead, I got a lecture on what a biopsy is. I informed Dr Ioannides that I understood what biopsies were, as well as the different types of them.
Dr. Ioannides suddenly decided that he would not follow through with the required surgeries, but insisted that I go to a plastic surgeon instead. I tried to tell him that my facial tumors were going to be treated with radiation from another doctor, and that I did not care about scarring with surgery on the rest of my body. I was working with another doctor and trying to coordinate who was going to do radiation and who was going to do surgery, and which tumors were going to be treated which way. I tried to remind Dr. Ioannides of the current strategy, but he refused to even listen, dictating a new strategy without even discussing it. I abruptly left since he simply was not listening and was refusing to treat me. He followed me out into the hallway and we got into a shouting match. This escalated to the point that Dr Iaonnides stepped up to within an inch of my nose, trying to intimidate me and yelling at me. I refused to back down and yelled back.
Obviously, I'll never be going back there again. read more