Those are troll reviews, and patently and utterly fabricated. "Barbara F" was real, she posted that 7 years after being seen at Stanford and the same day as she posted a similarly hostile review of another female MD who also denied her narcotics. I remember how upset Dr. Thanassi was that she had been conscientious during the years that opiod addictions were raging never to cause harm, but always to offer thoughtful alternative regimens with the standard 3 days' maximum for narcotics. She taught me that and I saw how gentle and supportive she was dozens of times, despite how difficult some situations were.
The next 2 are either trolls or are still "Barbara F". In 2020 (again comments on narcotic use) and 2021, when they were written, it had been many, many years (maybe like 10 years) since Dr. Thanassi had even worked seeing patients! And when she had been practicing (Yale, Stanford) she never had a single patient complaint that was brought to our QA board's attention or discussed in our case review meetings. She was a solid and respected MD.
Dr. Thanassi, who I've known for 20 years as an EM and OH colleague, is one of the kindest people you could know. She is a teacher, a policy-writer, in public health and known worldwide for tuberculosis work that protects healthcare workers. She's endlessly generous with her time and attention to all staff members, has been a teacher and mentor to thousands of nurses, MDs, students and researchers though her conference teachings and webinars. She is funny and warm and what we want in our physicians and leaders.
It is hurtful to see that this kind of viscousness toward health-care workers, particularly women, and particularly when Dr. Thanassi and our colleagues are literally giving their lives in the service of others. Again, those are completely fabricated by lonely trolls. They don't have any factual merit as, again, she moved out of direct clinical care a decade ago. And anyone who has spent 5 minutes with Dr. Thanassi will have benefitted from her warmth, kindness, fun personality and obvious intelligence. read more