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Surgeon Testimonial Steven M. Clark, MD At this point, I have no words to describe how dissapointed I am at the lack of after care, the lack of returned calls, and the whole post-op experience period. If I knew this was what I would have to face, I would have NEVER had the surgery. Member Interests
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  Hello......I am a 46 yr old, married Christian woman, my husband is Jeff. I have 3 wonderful adult sons and 2 wonderful adult daughters. They have given me 7 gorgeous grand children. I love the Lord and live my life to serve Him. I had my surgery on Dec 3, 2008 !!. God is oh so good! Praise The Lord!! 
My Story  Where do I begin?? Well I was born on May 26 1962 to my parents James & Lucille. I had a wonderful childhood and I was healthy and slim until my Junior High years. I started gaining weight in my "puberty" years. The summer before I began high School, I weighed about 170. I began seeing a weight loss doctor who put me on Bran Pills and "speed". I lost alot of weight and got down to 115 right before school started. Even though I may have looked good, I felt tired and sick all the time. During that time I met my high school sweetheart and after being together 2 years, I became pregnant and that is where my weight problems began again. I gained all of the weight back. I had 5 children between the years of 79-86. I never gave myself the chance to lose it before I gained more. In between those years I was in an abusive marriage and I began to eat more to help me cope with the pain. I never could see then that I was just adding to the pain. I turned to food instead of the Lord. Now years later, I have learned to turn to Him. But I have many health issues now, COPD, Heart, High B/P, Diabetic and Sleep Apnea to name a few! Because of these, I have trouble losing weight. I have managed to lose 32 lbs in 5 months with the help of a wonderful dietician, but need a more radical step in reaching the goal of better health and a normal weight. This is why and where I turned to Bariatric Surgery..........I had started this journey back in 2005. I had Disability Medicaid and Medicare as my insurances. After 16 years of being divorced i remarried a wonderful man. I was told this would NOT affect my insurance since he was also disabled and on the same plan. I was given the thumbs up to proceed with the surgery and days before i was to do my final labs before the actual surgery, my Medicaid was dropped! I was devestated to say the least!.........Now let's jump to the present. The only way that Medicare would pay for my surgery was if my Surgeon Dr Clark was performing surgeries in a hospital that was a Center of Excellency. Or I had the option of going to another hospital that was all ready, but i did NOT want to do this. I wanted Dr Clark! Well St. Francis is now a Center of Excellency and I can have my Nutritional Shake (no cake for me!, no, no!) and eat it too so to speak! I am told that I should be looking forward to a surgery date around the first of the year....What a way to ring in a new year and a new me! I Praise God that the door that was once closed, He has opened it for me once again....Thank You Jesus!!!! Praise The Lord!!!  |
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Things are much better now. I am actually able to hold food down! Meat however, besides boiled chicken and ground turkey, are out of the question! Meat and me do not get along very well! I have lost 119 lbs since Dec 3rd! 
. It was a little discouraging, but I just mixed things up a little in my diet and exercise program and I am back to losing again!
of a nurse who either calls back 3 or 4 days later, or doesn't call you at all! I am going to rest in the fact that I am turning my health over to the Almighty Healer and Physician! 
Have a blessed day all.........GBY
I guess my last few posts have been quite on the negative side.....this one will be no different. I am so disgusted and disappointed in the lack of after care I have received. I am almost 3 months post-op and I have only seen my surgeon one time since Dec 3rd. Well let me back up a little to the actual day of surgery. I was wheeled past my surgeon and I tried to say something to him and he just glanced at me and said "see you in surgery." Wrong again! I never seen him in the Surgery Room, the Recovery Room, Intensive Care Ward or in my Private Room. And to make matters worse, he was across the hall at my friend Brenda's room (we had surgery same day, couple hours apart) and NEVER even took the time to step over to my room to see how I was doing. Instead I was seen by a foreign House Dr whom I couldn't understand a word he said. Thank goodness they sent home my after-care on paper. From that point began the disappointment. I had a scheduled appointment for 2 weeks out, got canceled for emergency surgery. Had it rescheduled again 3 more times and they were canceled as well!! A friend of mine who is a Liaison for the Emergency room in my hometown (she is an RN as well) called my doctors office and told them that I was sick all the time, running temps and that my skin is very pale and ashen looking. She told them her credentials and how concerned she was for my health. They scheduled an appointment for me two days later. Now I thought we were getting somewhere.....NOT!!! They called 2 hours before I was to leave and canceled once again because of another Emergency Surgery!! Why is he having all these emergency surgeries??? I was also told on Thursday that a nurse would be calling me back to talk to me about what my symptoms are. Usually when I call to speak to a nurse or dietitian, it is days before they return the call, if they return it at all. But remember, THEY were the ones who were suppose to have her call me. It is now Saturday and I am sure you can guess by now, NO call! I have never been so disgusted and dissatisfied with a doctor and his staff as I am with this bunch. I feel like I was just another dollar sign, moving along the conveyor belt. My cousin told me this "A doctor is only as good as his staff." I wouldn't have understood that, but with this situation, I absolutely know what she is saying! Oh and by the way, my friend Brenda who had the surgery the same day I did, by the same doctor, she still to this day has not seen the doctor since her surgery. So see it is not just me, it is the whole office apparently. I wonder, has anyone else been treated so unfairly as we have?? As I said before, this isn't what I signed up for.......
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