Long time patient, couldnt take it longer, so first time written complaint. Not to be confused with first time complaint.
Dr. St. Claire misdiagnosed my Type II Diabiates. Complacement about my Asthma, and failed to carefull reduce my dossage of sleeping pill dependency. He simply cut me cold turnkey and ran to another meeting.
During the Type II Diabiates, I pleaded with him to check my sugars and he actually laughed, He said it was because I stopped drinking. It was after his lunch hour and he didn't seem to give a care in the world, almost treating me paternalisticlly. Well, it turns out my numbers were at 740, and I was at risk of a stroke and had to find a specialist. Terry F. Seltzer MD.
Since common sense dictated, if someone made that kind of mistake, i would get extra special care in the future, I didn't change doctors. Alas, another incident. As a severe asmatic, I I experienced an asthma attack. I went for treatment and to get new prescriptions. Dr. St. Claire had me leave the clinic with no new medication to attack my immediate asthma, except over the counter drugs and told me to increase my Advair - which normally takes 3-5 days to have any effect. So I left with some Primantine tablets in my pocket, in the dead of the winter, concerned that my asthma would get worst. Which it did.
Additionally, that same day he stopped my sleeping pills, cold turkey, after I had been on them for 7 years. Granted, I need to sleep without pills, however, if you simply Google you will find numberous documents stating that a doctor should reduce dossqge and not simply cut the patient. or any other treatment. Well, in his haste to run out to door to another meeting, he did say try an "online course" -- to reduce stress, - what wa the point of my medical if all I had to do was go online. I hope he made hi meeting on time.
All smiles and niceties at the office, collect your co pay -- but incompetence rains supreme here.
Find another doctor.
Laurence Carty