Home > Business and Commerce > Consumer Products and Services > Health and Medicine > Hospitals Clinics and Medical Centers > Family Planning
Reviews
anon - 02/28/09 05:32:57 - 96.234.232.136my experience at gynemed facility was anything but friendly and welcoming. firstly, it was packed. and i mean, PACKED. like people standing up packed. when i walked in i walked up to the desk said "hi i am 'name' i have a 9 am" the woman didn't even look up at me just pointed to a clip board and said 'sign in.' she didn't even look up to aknowledge me. then hands me a stack of papers, takes my id and insurance card and sends me to fill out all 20 pages front and back. i immediately felt in my gut that something wasn't right but i ignored it and filled out the paperwork with my mother.
so two hours later (after watching the maury show about baby daddies, hello? innapropriate?) i was called back for a sonogram and a blood test. the woman barely even said hello to me and again, very little eye contact was made. during the sonogram i began to cry and the woman asked me if i really wanted to go through with the procedure. i said no but i had to. she said nothing and carried on. she then explained what i was to do after i left the office, gave me a xanex and a cervical softening pill and sent me back out to the waiting room for another half hour. the xanex did nothing but made me feel sicker.
when i was called back the seconds time they told me to use the bathroom, undress from the waist down and sit on the table with a cloth over me. this is when it got bad. i was sitting on the table for about ten minutes (scared out of my SKULL) when a random nurse pops in and starts opening up cabinets and stocking things. hello? who are you? i am naked? then she leaves and comes back a few seconds later with a basket full of speculums and says, 'excuse me i need to get under your feet.' is this even allowed? random nurses just popping in and out of the rooms with scared half naked patients in them? nurses or not? finally a doctor comes in and introduces himself as "doctor chang" he does not look at me and does not close the door behind him. he looked around at me and said, i need your to scoot down on the table. i was still sitting up. i looked at the door and pointed and said, 'aren't you going to close the door?'' he says, 'oh yeah' but he does not. also, i was under the impression i was going to be seeing a doctor o'neil. i was never informed that i would be seeing someone else. i had read good things and heard good things about dr. o'neil and i was never told i would be seen by anyone other than dr. oneil. so then the same nurse that saw me before walks in and says nothing. the doctor comes over and says lie down and scoot all the way down the table. i do so slowly and he requests me to put a leg in a stirrup and i guess i was not doing it at a pace he was comfortable with and he then grabs on my leg and puts it into the stirrup. i, instinctively shot it back to my chest in a fetal position. at this point i was so taken aback by their unfriendliness i was in tears. he said, 'have you ever had a pap smear?' i nodded and he just said 'okay then' and grabbed at my legs again. i again pulled them back. they said nothing about the fact that i was hysterically crying at this point. the nurse grabbed my left arm and began putting the blood pressure thing on it and the doctor had stuck me with a needle in the right one. i began to sqirm and try to get up. the nurse then abruptly reached down under the cloth and pulled my shirt up to my neck to stick the heart monitor stickies on me i freaked and started to say 'stop it i don't want to do it' and that is all i remember. i know for a fact i said stop. all this happened in a matter of ten seconds and it may not sound that bad but two unfriendly people pawing at me and ripping at my clothes demanding i take my sweat shirt off was horrifying. i knew this was not right. i can recall the nurse actually pushing me down at one point when i tried to sit up. they did not speak to me really and were anything but warm, comforting, caring or friendly. they obviously were just annoyed with the fact that i wasn't 100% gung-ho to have an abortion. they were probably pressed for time and had ten more to go before their lunch break. also, i had the option of getting twilight or general anesthesia. i was never asked which one i prefered and i still do not know which one they gave me.
when i woke up i was in some chair in a room that i barely remember and i can recall looking up at a nurse saying 'please i want to go home' i do not remember anything after that except waking up at my mothers house. from what my mom told me, two nurses carried me out to her. my face was red and streaked with makeup from crying and she immediately began saying to the nurses, 'oh my goodness what happened?' she said that the nurses just looked at her and pushed me into her arms and closed the door without saying a word.
i noticed later on that my vagina felt very swollen and it was very painful to relax my pelvic muscles. i had to tense them just to feel relief. i realized that my vagina was so tender because of poor handling. in all of my pap spears and gyn visits i have never felt any pain or any post-pain. my vagina was so sore it hurt to pat myself dry when i urinated. i know that the doctor was probably just rushing and did not use care while inserting instruments. it felt as if he just shoved a speculum in that was much too big for my size with no lubrication. i could not bare down my pelvic muscles for several days.
when i think about my experience at gynemed i feel sick to my stomach. i had a friend go there and she told me she had an okay experience with dr. o'neil and that it wasn't bad. i, on the other had had anything but. it was horrifying and i have to live with it for the rest of my life. as if the actual fact of having an abortion is bad enough when i didn't want to, i have this awesome experience to look back on for the rest of my life when i think about it. i do plan on contacting gynemed and asking for an apology from the doctor and nurse who treated me like a was just a cow in a heard of cattle standing in line for my branding. head my advice, do not go to gynemed facilities, find a real gynecologist that will perform the procedure, (they do trust me) take the time to talk to you, get to know you a little, and make you feel more comfortable not just come in demanding feet in stirrups without even saying hello first.
Post a Review
Do you have experience with or are you familiar with this website? Please post your comments / review below to share with the rest of the community.
Do you have experience with or are you familiar with this website? Please post your comments / review below to share with the rest of the community.
Please note, all comments are subject to review and can be removed at any time for any reason.
Disclaimer: Galaxy is not affiliated in any way with the Gynemed Surgi-Center - Abortion Clinics Online (www.gynpages.com/gynemed/) website.
Views and opinions expressed may not be representative of Galaxy or its owners but all effort is made to keep the site free of obscenities, illegal or otherwise malicious activity.
Are you the owner of this site? You can manage your listing here.