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Best Doctors to have deliver your baby!!

I LOVE the staff at Pacific Coast. I've had two children through this office (both birthed at Scripps in Encinitas). I've spent time with every doctor. Gerber, Hoppe, Shipp and Enedy. They are ALL wonderful! I wouldn't go anywhere else! We've since moved about an hour and 15 minutes away, we are thinking of having one more child and WILL do the drive. I wouldn't dream of having anyone else deliver my baby.

posted at 04/11/08

SheHoldsTheKey

Stay away from this practice!!!

Stay away from this practice!

The office staff is cold and unfriendly, but that didn't bother me as much as the completely negligent care I received here.

To keep it brief, I went in due to irregular bleeding. The nurse practitioner came in and launched into a tirade about me not being on birth control, did not listen to my answers or ask me probing questions, and essentially just forced the birth control pill down my throat.

Then, she got up to leave, opened the door and I stopped her saying, "That's not what I came in for. I need an exam!" To which she responded, "I don't have time. You'll have to come back." (I should mention that I was sitting there naked, in an exam gown that I had been told to put on) Then, she proceed to tell me that, "at my age" (I'm 31 and single) that I shouldn't waste my most fertile years on a man if he's not, "the one." That as the years pass, it will only become harder for me to get pregnant, and that I shouldn't be wasting my time with a guy unless he's going to give me children. I should note, all of this was WITH THE DOOR OPEN. Well, this was not a family planning appt., I had not asked her any questions about my fertility, and she has no idea if I want kids or not, so none of her comments were founded or appropriate.

Needless to say, I was horrified. I called and spoke to one of the doctors who owned the practice, and she apologized, agreed that the behavior was completely inappropriate asked me to come back the next day to get the exam that I should've had the first visit.

Well, I showed up yesterday for that apt. and they didn't have me on the books! Instead, they had scheduled me for a later date, with the same nurse that I called to complain about!!!! When I told them this was unacceptable, they said there was nothing they could do- no one had time to see me. And yes, I was still bleeding and having pain.

I walked out, told them I'd never be back, and that I'd be sure to tell everyone how terrible they are.

I would've had to come in THREE times in one week (and pay two co-pays) to get the exam I needed. I was insulted, my privacy violated with the door open, and then stood -up for an appointment. As I've discussed this with my girlfriends who also go there, they all tell me they've also been insulted by the abrasive nurse practitioner who's either told them they were, "irresponsible, not 17, and should know better than to not be on birth control, " or, they were called fat during their pregnancy, or like me, were given unsolicited dating advice as if this is 1950.

I've decided to speak up about this because I believe that women should know that it's not ok to be treated this way and we should all demand much better care!

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