Patient
Bad experience. Please read. I'm an anesthesiologist. I started having arrhythmias that felt and sounded ventricular. I saw a cardiologist at Northwestern who gave me a zio patch. The result I was told was that I was going into tachycardia almost daily with a max rate of 285 bpm. I was referred to electrophysiology and saw Dr Nayak. He charged over $2,000 for a 30 minute visit where he simply gathered history. That's not what upset me. He did not listen. He disregarded me when I said it felt and sounded ventricular. He said it was "extremely unlikely " that my rate went as high as 285 bpm, suggested the cardiologist I saw didn't understand, and demanded the zio patch tracing before making any decisions. Reasonable aside from not listening to my experience or considering it at all. He touted that he's the best at this procedure and the most expert. He supported this claim by telling me his tenure and boasted taking a chair position in Texas for which he'll be leaving in a couple months. After 3 weeks of not getting any information regarding the tracing or scheduling an EP study, and after sending several messages back and forth on mychart, I decided to call northwestern myself. It took just a few minutes of explaining what we needed. His office then had the results within 2 days of my call. My rate did in fact go up to 285. There's an increase in the risk for sudden death above 250. It was a wide complex tachycardia and not the straight forward SVT he suggested. Had he simply listened to my factual story it wouldn't have been a terrible experience. Now he's referring me to someone else to have the procedure done despite telling me he is the best person to do it. This was a bad experience with an unnecessary delay.