Just wondering if anyone has ever been to Dr. Patricia Turner and if you have any feedback (good or bad). She is an Orthopaedic doctor with the Southern Maryland Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine group in Waldorf/Leonardtown. I want to have my son's knee looked at today and Dr. Turner is the only doctor I've been able to get an appointment with. I've been to others in that practice, but never her so I was just looking for a little feedback. Thanks!
Dr. Patricia Turner
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leonardtowngal
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Last October I broke my ankle and went to her. She jumped all over me for smoking saying my ankle would not heal. The entire staff there is anti-smoking in a huge way so your son should be ok with her as long as he isn't a smoker.
BuckinRut
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I have a bad knee, torn meniscus, and she will not operate till I lose some weight, so I guess I have to suffer until I can lose some weight. Dumb biatch!
PsyOps
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Just FYI...
Musculoskeletal Report: Study Helps Explain Why Smoking Slows Ligament and Bone Healing
It seems they are just taking their job seriously.
FASTPITCHDAD
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I do not know about Dr. Turner, but in my experience with the Southern Maryland Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine group, the y are all a bunch of idiots, and could not tell you the difference between a break, fracture or strain. They had my daughter in a cast for 8 weeks with no improvement. Turnd out that it was only a strain and it needed to be worked, not imoble. Once we started theropy, the problem was solved in 10 days
I have not had any experience with that group, but I can reccommend Dr Beck and Calvert Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in Solomons. I have had a chronic shoulder injury for over 12 years and in just a few visits, & an MRI scan of my neck and shoulder, I am already seeing results. I have seen a lot of ortho docs and done a lot of phys therapy in the last 12 years and he is by far the best and most investigative about finding what the root cause is and how best to treat it!
That has been my experience as well with more than one Dr in that group. One told me that my son just had an ankle strain, and it turned out that it was a fracture.
Worst one was with a different one of their Drs. I had (well have AGAIN) a ganglion nerve cyst on my achilles tendon. It is VERY painful, especially if I wanna wear shoes, LOL. They kept draining it, kept coming back within weeks. So they say the only way to get rid of is surgery. Go in for surgery, in a cast and everything. Go for one week checkup and then they tell me that they didn't get the whole thing, because the root of it is entangled in the achilles tendon and that was way more serious surgery than I had consented for so they couldn't do it. But it MAY not grow back, we'll see. WELL I find out a year and a half later (when it grew back) from another Ortho that had they done an MRI on it before surgery then they would have known what they were dealing with prior to cutting open the back of my foot and basically going through surgery and all that pain and only buying me a year before it came back.
I wasn't upset at all that they didn't do the more complicated surgery when I was in there the first time, that WAS the right decision. If they had still taken my insurance I would have gone back to them when it grew back. But I am pissed now that I found out if they had done the MRI ahead of time they would have known. They take my insurance now, but I won't go back there.
I do need to find a good ortho to do the right surgery this time (this thing is HUGE and hurts all the time, worse with winter weather shoes) Any suggestions????
There is one 'doctor' there who I would say you should avoid.
Kid, see Dr Spatz (or Rozoran) in Calvert (second vote for them). Dr Spatz has a very good reputaiton when dealing with children.
OP here. Thanks to everyone for your feedback. I went ahead and took my son to Dr. Turner and was very happy with her. I, too, have had bad experience with one doctor in that practice which is why I was a little leary of trying someone new in there. She was fine though and my husband is very happy with another one of the doctors in that practice (Henderson). So, I think you've got to go by the individual doctor, not the practice.
I agree with your husband. Dr Henderson is the best!