Denise W.
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Memorial Hospital
"The nurses and assistants are so overworked, they don't have time to take care of you. I went 1 and a half hours without my i.v. hook up one day. They missed two meals another day and didn't remember to give me the protein drink I was suppose to have until the 3rd day I was there. The room was unbearably hot and had to have a family member go out and buy a fan because they didn't have any left. Also, our surgeon requires us to use reclining chairs during the day and they didn't have an unbroken one available for me to use! The OR and ICU departments were wonderful, very caring and attentive nurses, I rate my experience with them as excellent, but once you got out onto the regular hospital ward floor, it was like being stranded in the middle of nowhere. Even with a family member trying to get help, it would take up to an hour to find a nurse to help with anything. I wasn't impressed at all with the quality of care I got while on the regular hospital floor. Leaving the hospital, I got to listen to two assistants complain about their work load, all the way to my car!"

Christopher Boynton
"My family physician recommended Dr. Christopher Boynton. He said several of his other patients went to see him and were all doing very well. So I made the appointment and waited about 2 months to get in to see him. My first impression was that Dr. Boynton is a very quiet person. He patiently answered all my questions, after giving me an overview of what to expect with the surgery. Though I went in hoping to have LAP surgery, he informed he only does RNY open and explained his reasons for doing so. I felt very comfortable with him, and I asked him point blank about any complications his patients have had or had any died on him. He answered very honestly I thought and without any cockiness or smugness you sometimes get from surgeons. Later on, I met one of his OR nurses, who also had the surgery done and she said he's one of the most consciencious surgeons she's ever met. He never rushes a surgery for any reason. You know the phrase, "Still waters run deep" and "not a man of many words". Those both describe Dr. Boynton to a "T". My husband got a little frustrated because he wasn't a "chatty" doctor, but I don't care if the man would chat or not, just as long as he knew what he was doing! By the way, he operated on both my husband and I the same day - both of us came through with flying colors - no complications and very manageable pain levels. The only way Dr. Boynton will do the procedure on you, is if you join the Virtua Health New Beginnings program. This is a year long program that requires you to attend nutrition classes, weekly support group meetings and have periodic one on one evaluations with personal trainers, a pyschologist and a nutritionist. The program is a little over $2000.00, which seemed a bit steep to me at the time, I now firmly believe was WELL worth the cost (and we had to pay it times two because my husband had the surgery too!). The support group is excellent and the case workers are wonderfully supportive ladies, who go out of their way time and time again to assist you in anything you need. This program was created with the help of Dr. Boynton and I agree with him that it is critical to attaining success with this surgery. While I didn't appreciate this at the time, I guess because I was staring at a $4000.00 price tag, I now realize that Dr. Boynton really cares about your aftercare. He wants you to succeed with your weightloss. If he was only concerned with the surgery, I suppose he wouldn't have bothered putting the New Beginnings program together. I've come to be even more grateful that I used him for this surgery, because he made tools available to me that I might not have thought of seeking, had he not set up this program. The only true frustration we felt from time to time was when dealing with his staff. There are many of them and from time to time you get attitude. The best way around it is to "kill them with kindness". I would call as many times as I needed to, regardless of what I was told. Persistance is the keyword to making sure all your paperwork is in order, which is needs to be before he'll schedule you a surgery date. Overall, I think Dr. Boynton is an excellent, competent surgeon and would highly recommend him to anyone interested in GBS. If you have to wait to see him (he's getting quite popular), so be it, for something like this, the wait is worth it! (P.S. With regards to the New Beginnings bill - You can use it as a tax write off and/or, if you have an FSA plan at work, you can use that towards the cost. Just have Dr. Boynton's office write an RX up saying you're joining New Beginnings for weight loss purposes.)"
About Me
Maple Shade, NJ
Location
35.8
BMI
RNY
Surgery
05/06/2003
Surgery Date
Jun 06, 2002
Member Since
Before & After
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364lbs
175lbs
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