Dr. Amy Hall Ruggeri, MD

She is not open to suggestions and patients. She does her thing and does not care for patients.i wish she was different or I should have changed my doctor after a first few visits to avoid a major heart ache.

Always very friendly and thorough.

Excellent physician. Very knowledgeable, calm deameanor and great bedside manner.

Please give me just a few minutes of your time. Vitals.com is the only forum I have for telling as many women as possible that the Board Certified OB/GYNs of Mercy actually allow residents (doctors in training) to perform complete surgeries, that is start to finish on their purposely not told, totally unsuspecting, anesthetized patients. For your surgery it may only be part, but whichever is the case, if your OB/GYN has not told you specifically what part of a procedure the resident is doing, then your OB/GYN has perpetrated something called "ghost surgery". "Ghost surgery" is the act of substituting one surgeon for another surgeon, supervised residents included, for any or part of a surgical procedure without the express consent of a patient who has essentially hired a specific doctor to treat them. "Ghost surgery" is considered fraud and battery of a patient (U.S. Supreme Court, 1983). This might seem extreme, but it is the law. Something else to seriously consider is that the… risks/rates of complications definitely go up when residents are involved. Perfectly logical really when you consider many aspects of a gyno procedure can be completely blind: critical bladder dissection, sling procedures, etc. So, how on earth can your doctor supervise that? Mercy has these statistics, but I don't know if they'll give them to you (internal vs. for the public). My little bit of research also led me to the ugly discovery that residents will be allowed to do an invasive bi-manual exam on you while you're in a lithotomy position and anesthetized. Their thinking is you will be perfectly relaxed and excellent practice for the residents. This exam without your express consent is against the law in 4 states ( I wonder, what do they know that MO should?). While it is not illegal in MO I thought it was so grossly unethical, I could scarcely believe it. Also, #4 on your consent form is purposely broad and vague. The doctors of Mercy think its okay to simply tell you a resident will be involved in your care, or maybe a resident will walk in just minutes before you surgery and say, "Hi, I'm the resident." They think this covers their responsibility to you. It doesn't. Hopefully, I have added some info and Good Luck with your decision.