How does this happen?
Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 7:00 pm
Hey guys
My surgery got canceled at the last possible moment again by Dr Bruce Garber.
Ordinarily I'd have said to hell with the surgery, but this was not the case because I realized that making love to my wife was as important as breathing to me. I will say this though Dr Garber has a good track record as far as his surgical expertise, but has little to no Bedside Manor!
Bottom line as I told him was that while this is routine to you, having anyone going near my crotch with surgical equipment is very foreign to me. He has always been kind of unapproachable, and more than a little bit cocky. But I figured that that's just the way he and others like him were wired to be.
Here's where my issues come into play.
Why didn't he come to me before the surgery to find out why the BP was so high? Was it nerves or was something else the issue, here is where the Bedside Manor would usually come into play right? Instead of canceling the procedure, and crushing my dream of being whole again.
Fast foward to a week and a half later to the second time around.
That procedure was a wash because my " cardiologists office" had given me a clearence, and on the day of my procedure, Dr Garber decided to call to verify, and spoke with someone who I'd never been seen by, by the way. Or had any knowledge of my particular case, and canceled yet a second procedure while I'm in pre op. And the way that Dr Garber handled it was very cold and uncaring.
Maybe it's me, maybe it's perception, but after the second procedure was canceled, and that coldness was still present.
I picked up my phone and called Dr Andrew Kramer, explained my situation to him.
And not only did he show more compassion in five minutes, than Dr Garber was in the previous months that I spent as a patient, but he assured me that between that point and my October date of surgery, that he would be more than happy to answer any and all questions that I have via email or over the phone. Now that is the manor that a great doctor conducts him/herself.
Wish me luck that the third time will be charmed.
Frank
My surgery got canceled at the last possible moment again by Dr Bruce Garber.
Ordinarily I'd have said to hell with the surgery, but this was not the case because I realized that making love to my wife was as important as breathing to me. I will say this though Dr Garber has a good track record as far as his surgical expertise, but has little to no Bedside Manor!
Bottom line as I told him was that while this is routine to you, having anyone going near my crotch with surgical equipment is very foreign to me. He has always been kind of unapproachable, and more than a little bit cocky. But I figured that that's just the way he and others like him were wired to be.
Here's where my issues come into play.
Why didn't he come to me before the surgery to find out why the BP was so high? Was it nerves or was something else the issue, here is where the Bedside Manor would usually come into play right? Instead of canceling the procedure, and crushing my dream of being whole again.
Fast foward to a week and a half later to the second time around.
That procedure was a wash because my " cardiologists office" had given me a clearence, and on the day of my procedure, Dr Garber decided to call to verify, and spoke with someone who I'd never been seen by, by the way. Or had any knowledge of my particular case, and canceled yet a second procedure while I'm in pre op. And the way that Dr Garber handled it was very cold and uncaring.
Maybe it's me, maybe it's perception, but after the second procedure was canceled, and that coldness was still present.
I picked up my phone and called Dr Andrew Kramer, explained my situation to him.
And not only did he show more compassion in five minutes, than Dr Garber was in the previous months that I spent as a patient, but he assured me that between that point and my October date of surgery, that he would be more than happy to answer any and all questions that I have via email or over the phone. Now that is the manor that a great doctor conducts him/herself.
Wish me luck that the third time will be charmed.
Frank