Dr. Collin B Smikle, MD, FACOG

Dr. Smikle is a egomaniac in my opinion. I honestly think he lacked a sensitivity chip from the beginning of my time spent with him as a patient especially at the end. When I found out the transfer didn’t take all he kept saying was “I don’t know what happened…everything was looking great” like he was looking for me to give him answers. I felt like saying to him “Well If you don’t know how am I supposed to know.” Then over the phone he says “It’s not your fault!” like duh it’s nobody’s fault these things just kinda happen. He obviously is not good at delivering bad news!!! To make matters worse I scheduled an appointment to discuss the failed transfer. When I get there and finally get called into his office he has some woman there who is following me inside his office. She tried to stay not seeming to leave by which I look at him like “Who is this?” and without initially saying anything says later”Oh this is so and so who is shadowing me and would it be ok if she can stay?” I look at… him in disgust saying “No she can’t!!!” You would think that’s first of all in violation of HIPAA and something that should be discussed before the appointment. Dr. Smikle once again shows his lack of professionalism and empathy for me as a woman and or patient. Then we start to discuss the failed transfer and I ask what our other 5 embryos ratings wore. He shows me all their ratings which mind you I didn’t know our 3 boy embryos were the highest from tge start. I told him if I’d known our boy embryos were the highest I might have considered one of the boys. Dr.Smikle says to me after mentioning thatI might have choosen one of our male embryos(had I known they were the highest rated) he said “No you wouldn’t have because you were set on a female embryo.” At this point Dr. Smikle’s arrogance definitely proved to me to be evident that he not only had no sensitivity chip but truly is condescending as well!!! I wish I had looked into other fertility clinics before settling with this doctor and his clinic that was referred to us by a lawyer.