I was referred to Dr. Cook by a friend and at first I absolutely loved him. When I got pregnant I started to become dissatisfied. Dr. Cook and the other doctors are so use to pregnancy they forget that you don't already know everything. They gave me virtually no instructions on prenatal care and seemed surprised I would have any questions.\r
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It was very important to me that I have a natural child birth. I told Dr. Cook that several times. I kept getting a feeling that he didn't like natural births. When I was 39 weeks one of the medical assistants asked me why Dr. Cook hadn't induced me yet. She said he normally takes the babies before now. He started acting very funny and told me I could go ahead and get induced. I expressed how much I wanted to have the baby naturally and he said it would be fine to wait. At 40 weeks he said I had to have a cesarian because the baby was too big. She only ended up being 8 pounds. Dr. Cook actually told me he doesn't get paid more for cesarians, which by the way he does. \r
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After my cesarian no doctor did more than come by the hospital room and say how do you feel. No doctor checked me out. I was then released from the hospital with high blood pressure. I ended up having post pardum preeclampsia which is very dangerous. I was in ICU for a few days. When I came home Dr. Cook and his team were completely incompetent. My blood pressure kept going up. I had to call the doctor on call a few times to see what to do. The doctors got annoyed with me for calling and in one day Dr. Cook, Dr. Nanda, and Dr. Melham called me back and all told me different amounts of medicine and different medicines to take. When I went back to the office for a check up Dr. Cook said the reason he wanted to induce early was because he thought I was going into preeclampsia. He never told me that. I would have like to know.\r
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This practice is clearly more interested in money than patient care. They over book and I am convinced Dr Cook purposely does many cesarians so he can schedule his day. I got this impression on several ocassions. Unfortunately, it was too late in my pregnancy to change doctors. I will never go back here again.
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