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| - A few issues with this place.
While Dr. Shallock is an extremely sweet lady, I was just not happy with the 2+ years I spent over there. At every visit I was left waiting long past my appointment time. Sometimes 30 minutes, sometimes an hour, once OVER an hour to the point where I missed a business meeting.
As mentioned by others, the front desk staff is not the most helpful nor professional both in person and on the phone.
My biggest gripe however, is regarding my heath. The last time I saw Dr. Shallock was a little less than a year ago for my yearly. First off, I was only prompted to go to this because my birth control ran out and I didn't realize it had been over a year for my annual exam. Front desk staff claimed they mailed me a reminder letter...well I never received it at my new address or my old address.
The annual exam I had prior to that came back with atypical cells, indicating I had HPV so she had to go in and do a colposcopy, which was incredibly uncomfortable. Nothing was too alarming so she told me that we would "watch it" to make sure it didn't get worse. Thinking about it now, "watching" something turn into cancer isn't my idea of any sort of preventative or action plan.
This last time I saw her (a little less than a year ago), she didn't mention the HPV whatsoever. Didn't say it was better, didn't say it was worse, didn't say it was still there or if it had cleared up. Part of me didn't want to know so I, too, ignored it.
Flash forward to a couple of weeks ago. I check out a naturopathic OBGYN, who is able to actually test for HPV types and come to find out I do still have pre-cancerous lesions on my cervix and the 3rd most common type of HPV to lead to cervical cancer. The doctor prescribed me a natural gel that I am to take for 3 months to entirely clear my HPV with a 100% success rate. What pisses me off the most is that if I didn't switch up doctors I would still be waiting to become another victim of cervical cancer and another chemo or surgery victim in turn.
Even if it costs me an arm and a leg (or a healthy cervix), I will never go back to conventional doctors again. I don't understand why I am in this predicament right now after putting so much trust into Partners in Women's Health but am grateful to know that I will never be going back.
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