1 /5 miranda wright: DDS: Doing Diddley Squat
I let my mouth pain go for about two weeks before calling Sturdivant, a dentist I have gone to for a long time. It took a week to get the appointment and once in, it was confirmed that I had an infection from a cracked tooth. Damaged beyond repair, the tooth would need to come out; a simple, routine extraction. But the good doctor was not content with just removing that tooth. He thought the wisdom tooth, that was fighting its way through my gums, should also be extracted. I agreed before I knew that it was not going to happen that day nor by him. He referred me to an oral surgeon in Port Angeles and said, while at the same time, he would try to schedule me with their on staff oral surgeon. "We will call you", was the last thing they said to me.
The dentist in PA could not get me in for a consultation for two teeth, I was told, for four months. (I suppose I should have asked if it was less for just one tooth.) Three days passed and still no call from Sturdivants office, so I called them. When I informed them of the long wait time in PA, they said they would try to find me someone else - which, of course, I thought they were already doing. Being a Friday and still being in considerable pain, I asked for a renewal of my pain med, even if only one or two doses. All I received was yet another promise of a call back "first thing Monday morning."
By noon on Monday, another week now passed, I received no call back nor could I get a human on the phone, like they were screening my calls. I had to get proactive and find another dentist. Done and done. As x-rays are now digital, I called Sturdivants answering machine again and asked that they email the x-rays to the new dentist. They did not; not even when the new dentist called them with the request.
By the end of the next day, all was good in the mouth-hood. The bad tooth was extracted in less than a half hour and cost $401, which I gladly paid.
The $163 that I paid to Sturdivant, who did nothing (except give me a prescription for an antibiotic and 6 pain pills), however, is not OK.
It is time that WE took back our RIGHT to affordable healthcare from true professionals and not the greedy, feckless hacks who pass themselves off as such. BOYCOTT UNPROFESSIONAL HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS. REPORT THEIR BEHAVIOR TO THE HEALTH PROFESSIONALS LICENSING BOARD IN OLYMPIA.
H. CLARK STURDIVANT, DDS OF PORT TOWNSEND, WA, IS A LIAR, CHEAT AND THIEF.
H. CLARK STURDIVANT, DDS OF PORT TOWNSEND, WA, IS A LIAR, CHEAT AND THIEF.
