"Dr. Kruger gave the orientation session I attended for the WLS program at Tobey Hospital. He has a very pleasant but direct manner about him and I really appreciate those qualities in him. Throughout my nearly nine months of working with him I've always found him very professional and always willing to answer my questions and point me in the right direction for answers or resources.rnrnThe staff in his office is just as helpful as Dr. Kruger himself and they were great while scheduling my appointments and checking in with me to ensure that I had them all straight (goodness knows they tend to stack up on you when pre-ops start!)rnrnThe other great thing about this program with Tobey is that they require a pre-op support group (4 weeks, 1 night a week) and also offer post-op groups multiple weeks every month for follow up and everyone in the program strongly recommends the post-op groups to help make your surgery a success. Everyone in the program has been wonderful and supportive. I suspect to find the same on the day of my surgery as well but I'll revisit this once I've experienced that as well.rnrnIn the vein of being fair, Dr. Kruger could come off to some as slightly dismissive. I didn't feel neglected or that any of my questions went unanswered but I have little doubts that some people would take his business like approach for lack of some bedside manner. I personally just view it as \"he's a busy man.\"rnrnThe only other issue I had in the program was not with him but with my psychologist on our first visit. He asked a question in a way that caused me to feel insulted but I packaged up my reaction brougth it home and thought it through and had a discussion with him about it in my second session. He and I came to an understanding on the apparent misunderstanding and both learned something from the experience so while it would seem like a negative, to me, it turned out to be a positive."
