Carlucci, Melissa A, Md - Pediatric Endocrine Assoc Pc

11/19/08

DO NOT TAKE YOUR CHILD TO THIS PRACTICE!!!

by bananamilk13

Our daughter was diagnosed with Congenital Hypothyroidism at 10 days old. We chose this practice because they were able to see our daughter first. We were worried because we knew nothing about this condition besides what we read on the internet. We were hoping that on her first visit we would have some understanding of her condition. This was not the case at all, INSTEAD our daughter was used for teaching purposes to medical students. Dr. Anderson did not explain her condition to us in a what we were able to understand and even scoffed at me for reading up on her condition online before coming in. It took over a week to get her lab results after repeat calls to the practice only to find that her Synthroid dosage she was prescribed at Egleston had been too high. We expressed our concerns on our next visit only to hear from the PA that we saw that she had heard many of the same concerns from other parents. The nurse came in to draw our daughters TSH and T4, but was unsuccessful. She gave us a LabCorp slip and told us to go to our local hospital, which for us was in West Ga. It took TWO WEEKS to get the results only after threatening legal action and having our child's pediatrician call them. We were immediately told to find another practice. This was back in August. We received a letter (THREE MONTHS LATER) in the mail today telling us that it was our fault in a nutshell that we should not have taken our daughter to our local hospital, even though their nurse was the one who told us to do so. We also received a missed appointment fee bill for an appointment in October after we had already been "kicked" out of the practice. This practice does not care about these children at all. It is sad that our children have to receive such deplorable health care. We are trying to be responsible parents and get our child's condition under control before permanent damage is done, and this is they way we are treated?

Please DO NOT take your child to this practice.

• Pros: NONE
• Cons: Everything associated with this practice is a con

08/29/08

DO NOT TAKE YOUR CHILDREN TO THIS DOCTOR'S OFFICE!

by mexisurfer

It's testament to an already poor healthcare system, but when doctor's follow along the same lines as our failing healthcare system, it's a sad day. The worst is that 'Pediatric' is listed in the name, so when you fail in patient care, it's the innocent that are hurt.

We have experienced failed lab result work which leads to repeat visits to 3rd party lab corporations, and traumatizing visits for our daughter. Also, this means more visits to the doctor's office, another co-payment and insurance money to the doctor. They never address the issues of concern we have for our daughter's thyroid condition. All the while, the doctors at this office have also failed to comfort our daughter and her thyroid problem; failed to address her symptoms; and failed to follow-up in an appropriate manner. Once, after I had enough of the bad treatment and tried to confront the doctors on their terrible patient care, they had a nurse rush me out the door with no explaination of our daughter's current symptoms nor remedies. DO NOT TAKE YOUR CHILDREN TO THIS DOCTOR'S OFFICE!!!

We are good people looking for good care for our daughter. You should not have to experience the same!!!

• Pros: The ladies at the front deask are nice, and the nurses are sympathetic
• Cons: Doctor's are not attentive to patient concerns!

06/16/08

Best DR's To My SON

by kennpeach

The team of Dr's have been the most helpful and kind people to my son and me.He was 1st seen at Scottishrite 4/1/08 .They have answered all the ?'s me and my husband had at that time.When we have been to both offices the staff has always been helpful.All calls have been returned ASAP with in 1 hour.I want to thank them for there help in a time when it was dark for us.We will keep going to this office and the cobb county one till Dallas has to goto an adult office which since he is 5 years old it will be along time.Thank you.