Dr. Traxler in the Cumming office is fantastic. However, visit Dr. Bleekrode only if you wished to be talked over, lectured and condescended to - and then wildly misdiagnosed. We have unfortunately had to deal with a great many doctors over the past few years with our daughter (8) and I have found, for the most part, that they are willing to approach their work scientifically, working from symptoms and communicating and listening to parent concerns. The first time Dr. Bleekrode refused to listen to my concerns and labeled my daughter's stomach pain as nothing more than constipation. The second time, after my daughter has suffered for more than a year with pain so bad it caused post traumatic stress and keeps her awake at night, she essentially told us it was all in my daughter's head. She never even took the time to read the other doctors' test results and diagnoses - which was verified as a wicked bacteria. Yet she sat there telling my daughter she would feel bad the rest of her life, to basically suck it up and then she acted as if it was my fault and that I was somehow catering to a child with a few little tummy aches. This despite firm test results (which she never bothered to review) and virtually ignoring anything I said. It was spectacularly unbelievable. I am not a hyper-critical type, so the first time I gave her a pass and assumed she'd had a bad day, but the second time (months later, while we are still battling this awful thing) she was so rude and unwilling to listen to anything I said that it was almost startling. I have never encountered a doctor so caught up in their own prejudices that they did not have even the decency to listen. I rarely write reviews, but our experiences with this doctor have been so amazingly off the map that I felt I needed to warn others. I am sure she is competent, but unfortunately her arrogance seems to prevent her from empirically evaluating symptoms and hard evidence and causes her to discard any parent observations. No doubt there are parents out there who hyperventilate whenever little Johnny bursts into to tears, but to work from the assumption that all parents are this way is sheer prejudice and arrogance. Dr. Traxler, in the same office, is very good - essentially listens, evaluates, keeps an open mind and seeks to work with the parent, rather than lecture and jump to conclusions.
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