Penny, I hope you read this and communicate my concerns, you were the one bright light in that place. However I would never recommend this practice.

To be clear, I have NO complaints about Dr Trivedi. I only met the man once. But I have never worked with a more un-caring and disorganized medical practice. I won't go on about all my issues. I've posted them here as they've occurred so you can read them on the general sleeve discussion board if you are really interested.

Yesterday I called the Ellis Bariatric Center and will be transferring my records there. I have already gotten 2 emails and a phone call from them. They said they should be able to get me into the OR by February if all goes well with insurance. Dr Trivedi's office said they wouldn't be able to get me in until the end of April at the earliest. They have had all my reports and clearance letters for almost a month now, and they hadn't submitted to insurance yet as of yesterday.

The Ellis program is a Center of Excellence. It's just a little further from home. I'm feeling very encouraged and getting excited again. I was beginning to think this was never going to happen! I'd love to hear from anyone who has gone to Ellis.

@@Kate M Thank you for your honest appraisal and giving us enough information so we know where the problems lie at. That's helpful to know.

Having had people ban/block me rather than looking at records or being able to rebut I had a bad problem, it was shut me up so 'people will get the surgery'. Other people have suffered because no one stands up to them. Time that that stopped and people know what offices do so that we have great experiences and those ones who don't, fix the business. Its about us, not money or ego or profit margins. Our lives.

Our lives.