Guest guest Posted November 4, 2004 Report Share Posted November 4, 2004 That's too bad. Don't these guys know that eventually their reputation will proceed them? Amazing. Leatha Doctor Question his name is Felix Speigle He runs people through his office like cattle. Lots of folks do fine with him. But there is just no patient support. He admited me into the hospital on Friday by phone... had ER DOC run all the test and determined over the phone that my pain was not related to band told me to come office Monday..... I did ( with 20 other people at the same time my apointment was) I counted. Anyway he didn't even know who I was!!! Just pulled my fill and left the room... the nurse kinda looked shocked and told me to call her tomorrow and let me know I how I felt... I just looked at her like when pigs fly and walked out. So I'm looking for a new Doctor. Katy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 5, 2004 Report Share Posted November 5, 2004 This is inexcusable. I hope you'll find another doc. I'm afraid this is an example of why to use only the most experienced surgeons who have excellent fill and followup procedurs in place. In the meantime, please enlist the help of your family doc, as i suggested in my other post to you. sandy RN > > his name is Felix Speigle > He runs people through his office like cattle. Lots of folks do > fine with him. But there is just no patient support. He admited me > into the hospital on Friday by phone... had ER DOC run all the test > and determined over the phone that my pain was not related to band > told me to come office Monday..... I did ( with 20 other people at > the same time my apointment was) I counted. Anyway he didn't even > know who I was!!! Just pulled my fill and left the room... the nurse > kinda looked shocked and told me to call her tomorrow and let me > know I how I felt... I just looked at her like when pigs fly and > walked out. So I'm looking for a new Doctor. > Katy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 6, 2004 Report Share Posted November 6, 2004 Sandy, Dr. Spiegle is an experienced and highly qualified lapband surgeon in Houston, TX. He is one of the few surgeons in the country who does bandings for failed RNY patients. I have no knowledge of the case in question but you are way off base with any comment about possible lack of qualifications. This isn't a hack at you or at Katy. It is hard to know much about surgeons not in your region of the country. It is not a jab at Katy either. I have had real issues with a few highly qualified and experienced surgeons in the past and probably will again in the future. Surgeons in general tend to be jerks when dealing with patients after the initial post operative period. This is an issue that will grow since band surgeons have a patient for life. This is unique to band surgeons. Cancer patients see their oncologist after their surgery not their surgeons. Accident victims often never see the surgeons who do the initial work on them. It has been the role of the surgeon to cut and run. Now band surgeons have a patient that wants to keep seeing them for problems they don't see as band related and the patient doesn't have a clue what is causing the problem. I'm afraid that this problem is going to grow. Some surgeons have started hiring NPs and PAs to see these patients and to do the fills on them. This isn't practical for surgeons whose main practice isn't lapbanding. I follow these lines of postings a lot to see the direction they head. There are several experienced surgeons in the houston area so I wish Katy luck in finding one to take over her care since she and Dr. Spiegle can't connect. Charlie 05/a6/03 405/300/200 Glen Rose, TX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 7, 2004 Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 You're very right that one can't always know much about docs in other parts of the country, even if they keep a file on all 800 band surgeons in the US, as I do. MX docs, too. I go only by patient reports on the ones I hear of from other bandsters, other medical people, or know personally. THis guy may be generally wonderful, but his treatment of this patient is just not acceptible under ANY circumstances. In my mind, exoperienced , good docs just don't behave this way. And I never offer comments other than very general ones until i have 3 or more complaints on a doc. One can be a highly qualified band surgeon, but still have terrible manner or terrible staff or terrible followup. Naybe this guy just had a terrible week. Just my point of view. Sandy RN > > Sandy, > > Dr. Spiegle is an experienced and highly qualified lapband surgeon in > Houston, TX. He is one of the few surgeons in the country who does > bandings for failed RNY patients. I have no knowledge of the case in > question but you are way off base with any comment about possible > lack of qualifications. > > This isn't a hack at you or at Katy. It is hard to know much about > surgeons not in your region of the country. > > It is not a jab at Katy either. I have had real issues with a few > highly qualified and experienced surgeons in the past and probably > will again in the future. Surgeons in general tend to be jerks when > dealing with patients after the initial post operative period. This > is an issue that will grow since band surgeons have a patient for > life. > > This is unique to band surgeons. Cancer patients see their oncologist > after their surgery not their surgeons. Accident victims often never > see the surgeons who do the initial work on them. It has been the > role of the surgeon to cut and run. Now band surgeons have a patient > that wants to keep seeing them for problems they don't see as band > related and the patient doesn't have a clue what is causing the > problem. I'm afraid that this problem is going to grow. Some surgeons > have started hiring NPs and PAs to see these patients and to do the > fills on them. This isn't practical for surgeons whose main practice > isn't lapbanding. I follow these lines of postings a lot to see the > direction they head. > > There are several experienced surgeons in the houston area so I wish > Katy luck in finding one to take over her care since she and Dr. > Spiegle can't connect. > > Charlie > 05/a6/03 > 405/300/200 > Glen Rose, TX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 7, 2004 Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 --- Charlie , I never questioned his ability as a surgeon. I said his post op care lacks .... He operates not only in the houston but in Port NEches as well... that is where he did mine. He does not have another doctor on call if there is a problem and doesn't take time with his patients. I was very frighten and didn't know what to do when the pain started I just expected to be treated better than I was. I will find another doctor I'm not in the habit of paying people to treat me less that human. Thanks for your input. Katy And as far as my condition being band related or not I think it was up to him to determine that since he was the doctor that did the surgery. > It is not a jab at Katy either. I have had real issues with a few > highly qualified and experienced surgeons in the past and probably > will again in the future. Surgeons in general tend to be jerks when > dealing with patients after the initial post operative period. This > is an issue that will grow since band surgeons have a patient for > life. > > This is unique to band surgeons. Cancer patients see their oncologist > after their surgery not their surgeons. Accident victims often never > see the surgeons who do the initial work on them. It has been the > role of the surgeon to cut and run. Now band surgeons have a patient > that wants to keep seeing them for problems they don't see as band > related and the patient doesn't have a clue what is causing the > problem. I'm afraid that this problem is going to grow. Some surgeons > have started hiring NPs and PAs to see these patients and to do the > fills on them. This isn't practical for surgeons whose main practice > isn't lapbanding. I follow these lines of postings a lot to see the > direction they head. > > There are several experienced surgeons in the houston area so I wish > Katy luck in finding one to take over her care since she and Dr. > Spiegle can't connect. > > Charlie > 05/a6/03 > 405/300/200 > Glen Rose, TX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 10, 2004 Report Share Posted November 10, 2004 I feel I must jump into the fray. Dr. Spiegel is my doctor, and I have never received anything but top notch care from him. He also did my son's band. My son is not being compliant with the band, and even though it has been two years, Dr. Spiegel keep asking about him and is very concerned. I have always found Dr. Spiegel to be available whenever I needed advice or information. Now having said all that I realize there are doctors and patients that do not click. I have a couple of doctors I feel just that way about. I think Charlie has a very valid point in that surgeons are in new territory with this band, but Dr. Spiegel is a great surgeon and I have this verified by an other doctor. Ruth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 Your breathing might have nothing to do with the hypo. You might have undiagnosed asthma. I get the same symptoms and I have diagnosed asthma, so I know when I start feeling a certain way to use my rescue inhaler. Roni <>Just because something isn't seen doesn't mean it's not there<> From: Joy Ruoff <joyruoff@...> Subject: Doctor Question hypothyroidism Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009, 4:00 PM Hi, I will be seeing the Endo. tomorrow for biopsy results. Do I mention to her about the feet swelling and hands and the breathing? Or should I go see my Primary Care Doctor again on it. I have to tell you these pills are not working. The breathing shouldn't be that difficult at times either. Thanks, Joy    Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 I would tell the ENDO doctor ALL my symptoms. Each doctor you see will have a different background and you'll have a better chance that one of them will put 2+2 together and have an epiphany. Then again, maybe not. I have low normal and sometimes low platelets. No doctor had a clue and it took 4 years of being active in working my health issues to discover that the Niacin I take to improve cholesterol also lowers platelets. The Niacin information was available to every doctor I saw for the past 4 years and no doctor put 2+2 together. Steve Joy Ruoff wrote: > Hi, > > I will be seeing the Endo. tomorrow for biopsy results. Do I mention to her about the feet swelling and hands and the breathing? Or should I go see my Primary Care Doctor again on it. I have to tell you these pills are not working. The breathing shouldn't be that difficult at times either. > > Thanks, Joy -- Steve - dudescholar4@... Take World's Smallest Political Quiz at http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html " If a thousand old beliefs were ruined on our march to truth we must still march on. " --Stopford Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 JOY, You " tell " both Doctors. Both of them have to co-ordinate therapies. Dr. Dan, PhD Researcher On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Joy Ruoff <joyruoff@...> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I will be seeing the Endo. tomorrow for biopsy results. Do I mention to > her about the feet swelling and hands and the breathing? Or should I go see > my Primary Care Doctor again on it. I have to tell you these pills are not > working. The breathing shouldn't be that difficult at times either. > > Thanks, Joy > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 I didn't mention the chest pains too but I don'tfeel it is anything serious though. If I tell them that part of it they will do an ekg and send me for a stress test again. Last one was in June. Then I look like I am crazy because it is normal. Not that I want it to be bad but I just want someone to listen and understand that a lot of this is my thyroid. ________________________________ From: Dan Kukulka <enemaguy@...> hypothyroidism Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2009 7:21:38 PM Subject: Re: Doctor Question JOY, You " tell " both Doctors. Both of them have to co-ordinate therapies. Dr. Dan, PhD Researcher On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Joy Ruoff <joyruoff (DOT) com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I will be seeing the Endo. tomorrow for biopsy results. Do I mention to > her about the feet swelling and hands and the breathing? Or should I go see > my Primary Care Doctor again on it. I have to tell you these pills are not > working.. The breathing shouldn't be that difficult at times either. > > Thanks, Joy > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 That's probably because most of them know nothing about nutrition, and what it does and what can happen because of adequate or too much of a good thing. Roni <>Just because something isn't seen doesn't mean it's not there<> > Hi, > > I will be seeing the Endo. tomorrow for biopsy results. Do I mention to her about the feet swelling and hands and the breathing? Or should I go see my Primary Care Doctor again on it. I have to tell you these pills are not working. The breathing shouldn't be that difficult at times either. > > Thanks, Joy -- Steve - dudescholar4@... Take World's Smallest Political Quiz at http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html " If a thousand old beliefs were ruined on our march to truth we must still march on. " --Stopford ------------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 More medical schools are now requiring nutrition as part of the courses, so hopefully the future MDS will be more knowledgeable -- Re: Doctor Question That's probably because most of them know nothing about nutrition, and what it does and what can happen because of adequate or too much of a good thing. Roni <>Just because something isn't seen doesn't mean it's not there<> > Hi, > > I will be seeing the Endo. tomorrow for biopsy results. Do I mention to her about the feet swelling and hands and the breathing? Or should I go see my Primary Care Doctor again on it. I have to tell you these pills are not working. The breathing shouldn't be that difficult at times either. > > Thanks, Joy -- Steve - dudescholar4@... Take World's Smallest Political Quiz at http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html " If a thousand old beliefs were ruined on our march to truth we must still march on. " --Stopford ------------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 Joy, I may not have read all of what you are discussing but your symptoms show that you are still hypo and probably not on enough thyroid meds. I have not had any help from the 4 endo I have gone to but maybe yours will be a keeper. If not see how far you can get with your primary care physician. Venizia > > Hi, > > I will be seeing the Endo. tomorrow for biopsy results. Do I mention to her about the feet swelling and hands and the breathing? Or should I go see my Primary Care Doctor again on it. I have to tell you these pills are not working. The breathing shouldn't be that difficult at times either. > > Thanks, Joy > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 Nancie, That's a great hope you've expressed. But, do you really think that the major Pharmaceutical companies are gonna 'willingly' relinquish their 'hold' over the docs ? Dr, Dan On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Nancie Barnett < deifspirit@...> wrote: > > > More medical schools are now requiring nutrition as part of the courses, so > hopefully the future MDS will be more knowledgeable > > -- Re: Doctor Question > > > > > That's probably because most of them know nothing about nutrition, and what > it > does and what can happen because of adequate or too much of a good thing. > > Roni > <>Just because something > isn't seen doesn't mean it's > not there<> > > > > Hi, > > > > I will be seeing the Endo. tomorrow for biopsy results. Do I mention to > her about the feet swelling and hands and the breathing? Or should I go see > my Primary Care Doctor again on it. I have to tell you these pills are not > working. The breathing shouldn't be that difficult at times either. > > > > Thanks, Joy > > -- > > Steve - dudescholar4@... <dudescholar4%40basicmail.net> > > Take World's Smallest Political Quiz at > http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html > > " If a thousand old beliefs were ruined on our march > to truth we must still march on. " --Stopford > > ------------------------------------ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 17, 2009 Report Share Posted December 17, 2009 Can someone recommend a good pediatric doctor in the Orlando or Tampa area that specializes in ADHD, Asperger's, Autism? Thanks ahead, L No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.19/1860 - Release Date: 12/22/2008 11:23 AM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 17, 2009 Report Share Posted December 17, 2009 Dr. Berger in TAmpa On 12/17/09, Leonarda Gaige <tomandleo@...> wrote: > > > > Can someone recommend a good pediatric doctor in the Orlando or Tampa area > that specializes in ADHD, Asperger's, Autism? > > Thanks ahead, > > L > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.19/1860 - Release Date: 12/22/2008 > 11:23 AM > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 17, 2009 Report Share Posted December 17, 2009 You have Dr. Bradstreet (oh my gosh, awesome) in Melborne - http://www.icdrc.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 17, 2009 Report Share Posted December 17, 2009 I agree with the ICDRC recommendation - we have seen Dr Rossignol Dr Bradstreet's partner who is very good and thorough. Many think they are the best Dan practice in the country. > > Can someone recommend a good pediatric doctor in the Orlando or Tampa area > that specializes in ADHD, Asperger's, Autism? > > Thanks ahead, > > L > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.19/1860 - Release Date: 12/22/2008 > 11:23 AM > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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