Patient
When I was first referred to him by my Covid Hospital Team at NWTH, he asked me a few very vague, generic questions, then said "If you have what I think you have, you'll need a heart transplant within 6 months?" I said "when you look into my heart, you will see Jesus sitting on a bench, under a tree, and he'll give you the thumbs up bc my heart is great!!" I stood up and said "I rebuke that in the Name of Jesus!" He then smugly turned around and asked me if I needed a "Psyche Evaluation?" He didn't bother to explain WHY he thought I'd need a heart transplant, or WHAT he was even thinking? I've been a nurse since 1996, and you don't give patients that kind of "bad news" until you've done the tests and they have a result.. then you discuss options? I had to set up a heart cath, and after my heart cath, he was amazed at how great my heart looked.. I had smoked for 33 years, and I only had 11% occlusion in my main arteries.. His Nurse Practitioner, prescribed for me Bumex to help my swelling in my legs/feet.. she did not give me Potassium which is almost ALWAYS used with a diuretic, but she said that Bumex doesn't affect the potassium levels? I asked for the Potassium on 3 separate visits, and I was denied all 3 times.. After a few months of taking this new med, I had a heart "stressed" episode.. in April 2023.. at the hospital, they confirmed by my lab, that it was a heart "stressed episode"and my potassium level was at a critical low? So I was hospitalized for 4 days to get potassium through my IV until it showed in my lab that my potassium level was ok.. Also, during this hospital stay, Dr. Slatton, whom I've only seen twice in 18+ months, came in my room, did not tell me who he was but I seen his name on his white coat. He stared at the ceiling and asked me if I take diuretics, which I told him I take what his Nurse Practitioner Brittany had prescribed for me.. he then asked if I took a lot of laxatives, and I said some very mild ones bc I have a brain shunt and I have to have a BM daily per my neurosurgeon.. He then looked me in the eyes and asked "Do you sniff glue?" I answered him by saying "Why in the world would I do that ?" He gave me no explanation for why he asked that, he never said another word and left my room.. I've not been back bc I don't feel safe in their care.. another reviewer's comments about him getting vein surgery with neg results I can honestly believe that!! I had a physician from this same practice do a procedure where he put a stent in my left groin area about a year ago.. my left foot has been purple ever since.. and one of my other Specialist I see, a Cardiovascular Surgeon, said that the stent procedure was the cause of the 5 large blood clots in my leg, (from my groin to my ankle) and 3 in my lungs which I was also hospitalized in the SICU for 4-5 days, after I had the heart attack? I no longer see that cardiologist office bc, in my personal opinion, I do not feel safe under his care.. His office, of course, had the audacity to call me for a post-hospital follow up appt.. I explained everything that I've just written, and she said it would be in the best interest of "HIS PRACTICE" to not see me again? HIS PRACTICE? What about HIS PATIENTS? I truly hope and pray that they don't remove my review, bc I believe that every patient has the right to believe what they feel is right for them, without judgement or personal slurs being said, as he said.. I believe in Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior.. But in the medical profession, all of them that I know of, say you can't treat/not treat bc of the Beliefs of a patient? He not only made RUDE remarks about my Belief, he wanted to send me for a psyche evaluation bc I REBUKED HIS STATEMENT THAT I WOULD NEED A HEART TRANSPLANT WITHIN 6 MONTHS, WHEN HE HADN'T EVEN DONE LAB, HEART CATH, NOTHING!! AND TO FIND OUT IN THE END OF PLAYING HIS GAMES, MY HEART WAS AMAZING!! In my personal and professional opinion, he's the most calloused, rude, arrogant and spiteful doctor that I've ever encountered in all of my years in the nursing profession..