To a: Re: Dr. Banks

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a: I'm glad that you find him to be a good doctor for you and I

have to admit I almost didn't use his name outright because I feared

a situation like this might be the case but at the same time, I

didn't want anyone else to go to see him and get the same treatment

that I did.

I mean he made his " proclamation " based on NO testing (even though

my file clearly shows that I haven't had any CT scans, MRCPs since

spring of 2004 and the ERCP with Dr. Lehman was in August of 2004 so

it's been awhile!!) I am just flabbergasted that he could say

unequivocally (sp?) that I didn't have anything wrong with my

pancreas without running any further tests. Now if he'd made that

statement after running some of the aforementioned tests since it

has now been over a year since they've been performed - I may not

have agreed with what he said but at least it would have been a

decision on his part made using " objective evidence " and that is

what ANY good scientist/doctor uses to base decisions on.

If you don't mind, could you email me off line (you don't have to if

you don't want to I would totally understand) but I'd like to know

how you sort of " presented " to him, i.e., under what circumstances

and such so that I could get a feel of how his decision making

process worked in your case. I would very appreciate that.

Thanks for posting and it just goes to show that everyone is

different including the doctors!! And how many variables that may or

may not feed into the way a person (in this case Dr. Banks) makes a

decision on any given day.

Sincerely

> I have been reading the posts about peoples past experiences about

Dr. Banks

> and I am extremely surprised that so many people have had such a

bad

> experience with him. I just want to say that for me he has been

wonderful.

> If I start getting pain I call his office and he either personally

calls me

> the same day or the next day. Also I get appointments immediately

with him.

> I know originally it was hard to get an appointment with him, but

as soon as

> I was referred by a different GI he took me immediately. He has

even called

> me in the past when I didn't call up the next day for the results

of my CT

> scans or when he knew I was in pain and he hadn't heard from me in

a few

> weeks.

> I think that he might be selective and a little sure of

himself, but I

> am very srprosed at how differently he treats different patients.

> I also have said on the board o few times that I would

reccomend him,

> but I think that I am going to stop because it seems like that I

am the only

> person that liks him.

>

> I don't post very often but I wanted to add in my two-cents

>

> -a