Emergency Medicine Doctors - Madison, WI

"Judgmental, rude, uneducated on topics that he should be well-versed in, and unhelpful. I have been sober for almost a decade - he saw that I have addiction noted on my chart and immediately treated me as a second class patient. After reading the notes that he posted after my visit, my hunch was confirmed. He lied to me and told me that a medication that I have taken for the better part of a decade was a schedule 2 drug...It is not scheduled in any way and as soon as I asked/confronted him - he refused to answer me with anything other than "Yeah" in a patronizing manner. My father is an emergency room doctor, and after realizing that this doctor was not professional and had very poor bedside manner (to put it nicely) I got up and walked out and had my father continue my medications for another 2 weeks until I could see a doctor that was competent. On his notes that he posted after my visit, he attempted to make it look like I was seeking drugs (trying to refill my gabapentin and propranolol that I've taken for 7 years and my primary care doctor had recently left the practice). This man clearly needs to re-evaluate his bedside manner and I recommend staying away from him."

"Very rude and condescending. Actually made fun of me because I came to the PMC emergency room around 4am. The ER wasn’t busy..they took me straight in . I’m 65 years old and had back upper tooth extracted 2 days prior was in severe continuous pain since 4:30pm eve before. Thought to have dry socket. He said what do you expect me to do. We don’t have dentists in call. I told him I’m taking 800mg ibuprofen every 6 hours and 650 Tylenol with no relief. I told him I tried calling my dentist at 4:30 eve before and no answer. I left a message on their voicemail. Our town does not have after hours dentist either. After he left and the nurse came back in with pain pill and antibiotic. The nurse kept apologizing. He said he himself has had a dry socket. He knows how painful they are. He just kept on saying I’m sorry. "