We were UNLUCKY enough to have a ?consult? with Dr. Hedrick of Mercy Gilbert Hospital Pain Management. This Dr. suffers from a HUGE GOD complex. I could fill up a page of my wife?s medical problems, and Mr. Wonderful (sarcastic) Dr. Henrich comes into her hospital room and after 12 min he undid 7 years of medical advice which included advice from both the Mayo Clinic in Phx and Jacksonville. With my wife and daughter in the room he THREATENED my wife. Why we have pain management doctors scared of opiod medication, I will never know ? if you don?t believe in it, don?t go into the profession. The only thing the pain medication does for my wife is get her out of bed MAYBE 15 days a month. If she was given more, it might be 20 days. The pain medication increases the quality of her life. This genius took it all away ? cold turkey today ?then lied to hospital administrators saying he did not say what we said he did. Well genius, my 19 year daughter who was in the room with you, taped the conversation and we have it as evidence. You threaten to reach across the bed and remove the pain patch from my wife?s chest. If you are thinking about seeing this Dr. or going to this hospital, remember this story. If you hurt, my wife was crying in pain, they take meds away from you ? they refuse you appropriate pain management ? then when you escalate they all stick together. The hospital actually told us today that they do NOT treat chronic pain patients. Which was a SHOCK to (our really good pain management dr.) who continues to tell us to go to the ER when we can not control her pain at home. No one listens ? god forbid you disagree with a Dr. ? regardless of what you say ? they stick together. I took my wife from the hospital AMA today, wheeled her out crying in pain. This is after the ER doctor gave her pain medication, the admitting dr ordered 2MG every 2 hours, then after this pain dr. came in he removed all access to pain medication. Dr. Hedrick, I hope you read this, I would not let you change a tire and I wish it would have been me in that room instead of my 19 year old daughter. You treated the wrong chronically ill person as a drug addict. You are an embarrassment to the profession, and you should not be doing what you are doing. You can?t play GOD and you can?t make decisions without having the correct history. How did you make that call, her medical records had not yet been received by the hospital ? so what did you base your decision on. Had she had to much? What her crying in pain not enough hurt. I would tell you what I think, if you called me, but you chickened out when hospital administrators called you to meet with us to discuss you lied about what you said, and you hid. I hope you get enough complaints over the next few weeks, cause we are doing everything we have the right to do to complain about you and how you practice medicine.
Pros: 2nd Floor Nursing Staff
Cons: Horrible Dr. - Peter Hedirck
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