East Tennessee Cardiovascular Surgery Group

Got to the office at 10 this morning for my 10:15 appointment signed in they took my temperature. I sat there until 11 in the blistering hot waiting room with a pillow pressed to my chest while I watched 3 people who signed in after me be taken back. So I got up and left at 11. At 11:19 Mellisa called and said I had signed in for my appointment but was no longer in the waiting area. I explained to her how unprofessional it is to keep someone waiting that long with no explanation. Apparently this happens all the time. I will not be wasting any more time with this group. Apparently once they have your money, you become nothing to them.

I had open heart surgery by this person, Poret, in Knoxville Tn. He is a horrible human being with zero compassion for his patients. I woke up from my open heart surgery violently vomiting! With a brand new 8-inch incision and my sternum sawed in half and wired back closed. Why was I vomiting? Because this inhumane "doctor" had decided that the medical alert on my hospital file saying I was allergic to all codeine products was a joke, or it didn't apply to him, and administered it to me while I was still asleep from the surgery. When I confronted him with this fact he smirked and said that I was not allergic, I was intolerant! So in his infinite wisdom, he had decided to test his theory out on a 92lbs woman who he had just cut open and sawed in half. My reaction to codeine products (since the age of 16 after wisdom teeth removal, I'm 51) is vomiting to dry heaving for a full 24 hours. So when I should have been given pain relief to allow my body to heal he instead gave me a medication that caused me to dry heave for 24 hours causing extreme pain to my chest and body. He refused to change my pain medication and told me that if I get desperate and in enough pain I would take the codeine. This was inhumane, vile, arrogant, and blatantly dismissive of the pain I was in! I never took any more pain medication in the hospital for the several days I was there after surgery since he refused to give me pain meds that would not make me vomit. And when discharged he tried to give me a prescription for the same medication! Anyone that has any empathy for his fellow human beings would never be so cruel to another, especially one that claims to be a Christian as he did repeatedly. Does he think he is the modern-day equivalent of Mother Teresa who is well-documented to have taken joy in her patients suffering believing that it brought them closer to Jesus? Another vile human that claimed to care for people while her patients suffered at her inhumane hands and vile mentality. She ironically died of a heart attack.