"The hospital staff responded to my needs very quickly. They were very caring and sensitive to my needs. They deal with a lot of bariatric patients there, so I would say they have that going for them more than most other local hospitals. I would stay there again if I had to be in-patient again!"
"I have a consult date with Dr. Juarez for February 7, 2002. I have not met him yet, but the lady I spoke with at his office was more than helpful! She took her time explaining what I need to bring to my appointment to make things go more quickly. So far so good. Will update after I actually met the doctor. :) Dr. Juarz was very nice and even though I knew his office was packed, he took his time answering my questions and didn't act like he was in a rush to run out like I would have expected.
I now have a surgery date, but it will be with Dr. Juarz's new associate Dr. Fang. I have a pre-op/consult with Dr. Fang on July 15th and my surgery will now be on August 20th,2003. I had to reschedule it to August from July 23rd due to work schedule conflicts. I figure I have waited this long, was is three more weeks in the larger scale (no pun intended)of things. Will update after my appointment with Dr.Fang. :) July 15th I had my consult with Dr.Fang. He was very professional and had a very nice personality. I am fine with him being my surgeon. He has not done as many surgeries as Dr. Juarez, but the way my sister put it to me made total sense. She said to think about how it is when you begin performing a task that you may not have done a whole lot of times before, how would you do it.......very carefully! ;)"
"It took a month to just get the results from my appointment typed. She was very rude in stating that she "does a log of these tests" and only has one typist, so she couldn't tell me when I might be getting my results. I called a total of 8 times making sure to ask them to call me when they had my letter typed. They never called me! I found out the week after they were mailed that it was done."
"This doctor was very gastric bypass supportive. He is already having me and my sister do all of our Pre-operative testing done before we even get to see our surgeon for our consult. He has worked with Dr. Blackstone before and refers to her as "his buddy"! He is very understanding and compasionate about his patients having weight problems and has no problems with wls!"
