"Only less than positive thing I can say is that some of the visitor chairs in the facility, meeting rooms, and patient rooms are thin sized. But they had adequate sized gowns, beds, and recliners for the patients. Over all, a WONDERFUL experience."
"After much work and changing Dr. to Dr. to Dr......I logged on here and found an in-network Dr. in the Margate (Ft Lauderdale) which is about 45 minutes from me. The Dr. is Dr. Wizman. He has been a surgeon for over 10 years, but only doing Bariatric surgery for a short amount of time. I was nervous by that, but called, explained my situation, and JoAnn (his receptionist) was F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C!!! She understood, and was unsure of how quickly I could be seen, but scheduled me for the group session the following week (Tuesday Oct 22). She called me back in about ten minutes and booked my appointment with Dr. Wizman for Wednesday Oct 23. I called my contact at UHC and gave her Dr. Wizman's info and Northwest Medical Center's information. She confirmed that both are in-network and updated my approval! I went to the group meeting, and after about 4 minutes I fell head over heals for Dr. Wizman. Smart, charming, humorous, concerned, and has the right personality for the job. AWESOME!
I saw Dr. Wizman on Wednesday and he too thinks I am a great candidate. He took as much time as was needed and made absoulute sure that I have no questions. His nurse had the surgery (by another surgeon). I met with his administrator that handles his schedule and affairs. She was a phenom! With things scheduled in my life, I need to have the surgery and be recovered by a few dates, so booking the day was a challenge, but she fit me in for November 8, 2002! She said it would be a miricle to get all of my labs, medical clearance, nutrition visit, sleep study and Psych eval done and results in time for surgery. I was up to the challenge. I then met with Faye, his insurance co-ordinator. I have worked in the medical field before and have a good feel for medical professionals. I don't know how Dr. Wizman managed to get such a winning office staff, it is AMAZING! I explained that I already had approval, gave her the name an number of my contact at UHC, and I think she wanted to give me a great big hug! (Dealing with the insurance comapnies on our behalf can NOT BE EASY!)
I left Dr. Wizman's office and went directly to his Nutritionists office (Carolyn Flynn) and they had just gotten a call to cancel an appointment on Friday Oct 25, (today) so they booked me! I came home very satisfied. Yesterday I called UHC and updated them with my surgery date. Called United Behavioural Health and got the names of a few Psych's in my area. None of them called me back, so I logged on and found one myself! He fit me in for today. Dr. David Boltson. I met with him and the nutritionist today...... I called my old boss at the hospital where I used to work and she made a call and my sleep study is Friday! IT LOOKS LIKE IT MAY HAPPEN!!!!!!! WAAAAHHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Ok, worn out, fingers dead. Love to all!"
"Mrs. Flynn seemed very polite, yet rushed. There is a lot of information to cover in a very short amount of time. Although I am not sure that I will recall everything that she said, but I am confident that I can call her after surgery for input."
