Re: Dr Lehman - To Jean

[Guest guest]

Hi Jean,

I saw Dr Lehman in December of 2004. My experiences were ok, but nothing

spectacular. I think I caught him at a bad time - it was the Monday after

Christmas

and it seemed as if he and his staff weren't really all the way back from the

holidays!

He is very kind and compassionate in his demeanor...but he is also very

skeptical

about what you tell him (or maybe it was just that he didn't seem to be paying

attention)...that is, he seemed to use the good cop (resident) / bad cop (him)

way of

eliciting information instead of getting it beforehand from charts or

correspondance

(that is my biggest complaint - that he wasn't prepared in the least with my

background and history). Because of this, I feel that any information that he

was able

to provide was not addressed to me specifically, but as a generalized

case...that is,

" people with this overall problem are treated this way " type of thing but not

what I

should do specifically in my particular case. Which was a disappointment. I left

without any answers as to his opinion about what went wrong in my previous

surgery

and what I could do, if anything, to fix it and how I should manage this

condition in

the short term and long term (what medications, what monitoring labs I should

do,

what type of doctor I need to bring onto my case, etc). He also never followed

through with a letter of follow-up that I requested he send. In addition, I

have had a

lot of problems with IU hospital in the billing department in that somehow my

insurance cards are being used by another patient there and I am being billed

for her

clinic visits / procedures - which isn't Dr Lehman's fault, of course, but

another thing

that is making me less than pleased with my visit to that health system overall.

Now, I do want to offer this mitigating information....I seem to have the worst

luck

with doctors than anyone else on this planet (hyperbole I know !) so Dr Lehman

can

be the best doctor in the whole wide world and still end up making me think that

he

is mean, brusk, or un-interested in my case. So my experience probably is not

typical of the many, many people who have seen him, or Dr Sherman, and have had

great success and wonderful rapport with them.

I guess he is a very, get down to business type of guy..... " let's go after the

obvious

and easiest and not think about the complexities and subtleties of the many

layers of

the disease process " approach.

Laurie