Re: Dr. Glassner - excellent physician

[Guest guest]

Why not fight with your HMO to pay for this? You might even win...

> Hi everybody:

>

> I had my 1st apt. with Dr. Glassner in Bryn Mawr

yesterday.

> He is as good as everybody said he was on this group website. I

was

> diagnosed with 2 fibroids by my HMO doctor ( submucosal and 1

> subserosal). He wanted to do a hysterectomy and I refused. My HMO

> doctor also told me there was no way he coudl tell how far

embedded by

> submucosal fibroid was in the uterine wall.

> Well, Dr. Glassner diagnosed me with 4 fibroids. 2 are intra-

cavity

> (not submucosal as my HMO doctor said) and are 2 cm in size. 1 of

> them is 80% in the uterine cavity and the other is 50% in the

uterine

> cavity. therfore, per Dr. Glassner I am a good candidate for a

> hysteroscopic resection. I have 1 intramural which will require

not

> treatment at all and the other one is subserosal - 5 cm in size

and is

> pressing into my uterine cavity.

>

> Well, it appears there is indeed a test (ultrasound done by an

> excellent technician who works for an excellent physician-Dr.

> Glassner) that can tell how far embedded a submucosal fibroid is in

> the uterine wall. It also appears that I was mis-diagnosed

somewhat

> by my HMO doctors who just wanted to remove the organ!

Unbelievable!

> Managed health care (HMO's) are not the best physicians and it is

so

> true that women with fibroids need to seek out doctors who are the

> best in their field.

>

> I am now working on financing the resection operation and will be a

> self-pay patient. This organ is so important that for me, it is

worth

> the effort to pay for this on my own, regardless of my stinky HMO

> insurance who misdiagnosed me and wanted to just " do a vaginal

> hysterectomy. " UMBELIEVABLE!

>

> Dr. Glassner is excellent and made me feel at ease about the

> hysteroscopic resection.

>

> Jeanne

[Guest guest]

Let us know if you decide to fight your HMO b/c I'm in a similar situation. I

have found a good dr. that's willing to work w/ me & my ins. company but I

received a letter from my ins. co. w/ a big fat DENIED! So now, either I appeal

or I look for yet another capable dr.

[Guest guest]

Sound like you'll be fighting with your insurance company too.

Hey....Go for it!

> Let us know if you decide to fight your HMO b/c I'm in a similar

situation. I have found a good dr. that's willing to work w/ me &

my ins. company but I received a letter from my ins. co. w/ a big

fat DENIED! So now, either I appeal or I look for yet another

capable dr.