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| - My cardiologist, who is excellent, is part of this corporation at another branch on La Canada Street. I think he's great. But if his nurse Janice is an indication of how this group is run, the corporation is not. Five months after suffering a heart attack, I was still sleeping up to 16 hours a day. It was difficult to work or accomplish anything. I remembered that the pharmacy insert for one of my meds said tiredness was a side effect and if it continued, patients should contact the doctor. When I called, the nurse insisted that fatigue was not a side effect of my meds, and I should see a primary care physician. She refused to even give a message to the doctor. I ran out of a med, and because I order meds online because the pharmacies in Las Vegas are so poor, it took several days to get it. While I was out of the med, I didn't sleep during the day. I looked at the pharmacy insert for that med, and sure enough, it was the med that had tiredness as a side effect. Nurses are not doctors and should not be giving medical advice. Certainly, they should not function as a gatekeeper that blocks patients from leaving messages with doctors. They are not qualified to do so, nor do I think their license grants them that authority. I am seeing my cardiologist this Friday and will tell him what his nurse did. But if this is what is allowed by this corporation, patients are taking their lies in their hands to seek care here.
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