Rheumatologists - Reno, NV

"After decades of seeing Rheumatologists, I finally had answers in 2013. Dr Atcheson had diagnosed me with Lupus and started me on Benlysta. Unfortunately he retired. I then saw Dr Ukadike. He said, after one visit and limited lab work, that I never had Lupus and nothing was wrong with me. I did not need to come back and my medication was discontinued. This man has no business being in medicine in any capacity. He truly is the worst doctor I’ve ever seen"

"She just doesn't listen, she rapid fires the same questions at each visit and doesn't wait for an answer. I was diagnosed with Pulmonary Fibrisis shortly before seeing her the first time and she was still asking the same questions a year later when I told her the Pulmory Fibrosis was determined to be caused by chronic inflamation due to lupus. She again said the ANA test came back negative and when I pushed her by telling her she's the only doctor who thinks I don't have lupusc she finally said well yes you could have it but, we don't know if that's what is causing the fibrosis. The ANA was postive two years ago but the lupus somehow magically disappeared? I now have a incurable disease that could have been prevented but now I'm going to die of it because she ignored me. She does the same exam and comments that I don't have enough joint pain and then repeats the same questions at the next visit. I don't know how, or why, she's even allowed to be in our network. I'm dying of this disease but left her office today with a referal to a Nurse Practitioner, not a doctor, a NURSE! It was her suggestion to refer me to a different doctor and she referred me to a nurse! This is ridiculous!"