Dr. Julie Evans Schaferling, MD

The worst!!!! My mother went to the ER with lower right stomach pain and 2 days of constant vomiting. The Dr touched her stomach, that was painful but she didn't do other typical physical exams to rule out appendicitis. She ordered a ct, which didn't specifically showed appendicitis, but a small upper stomach hernia and she diagnosed her with acid reflux..gave her dietary change advice, anti-nausea medicine, ignored the fact that neither the hernia, nor acid reflux has these symptoms, and sent her home with a recommendation for a non- urgent endoscopy. A week later my mother almost died from a burst appendix, that according to the drs had to be like this for a long period of time, even a week. Got a very severe infection. From the complications she developed another infection by her liver, pneumonia and they had to drain her lungs. Her ling collapsed, she was needed oxygen day and night. She spent over a month in the hospital, needed to sedate her for days, was in such extreme… pain all over, that her body was shaking constantly, got delirium, after more than a month in the hospital she was so week she absolutely cannot get up, pull herself up, can't walk or do anything. She was totally independent before. Other dr's can't understand this dr didn't recognize it from the signs and her 30 minutes scheduled surgery was over 2 hours and one of the worst the surgen ever saw..Since then I asked other drs and all say that my mother had the tell tail signs of appendicitis and it should have not missed..because of her negligence, a 30 minute surgery became over 2 hours and she almost lost her life, quality of life definitely diminished...

Terrible, absolutely terrible. Has no sympathy for her patients, will never go back to that hospital. Discharged me with terrible abdominal pain.