Dr. Bruce Phillip Krieger, MD

I can't speak about his private practice, as I have no experience with it. As the Intensivist at Memorial Hospital, his philosophy is essentially if you're over sixty, you've lived long enough. It's bad enough to be like that in the general sense, but to go out of your way to cause someone to die is even worse. I hold this man responsible for my mother's death. My mother entered entered his "care" in good condition, she was alert, conscious and merely awaiting transport to a more local facility, as we do not live in Jacksonville. The problem started after a college of his preformed a procedure on my mother, without consent, and using a medication that it was documented she had an allergy to. She had a negative reaction and lost consciousness, which she never regained. Following the incident, Krieger did everything in his power to cover it up. Blaming my mother's condition on a rare disease that doesn't even occur in the U.S. If that wasn't bad enough, he admitted to intentionally… inducing kidney failure in my mother. For some reason, he had given my mother high doses of Propofol and after a bit, her kidney function began to decline. When I questioned him on this, he told me she wasn't on Propofol, when I showed him the IV in her room, he told me the nurse must of prescribed it. After that he told me how, inducing kidney failure is actually good thing since it's not a painful way to die and that when he was learning medicine, they did that to the terminally ill. After this, I demanded second opinions of which I was refused multiple times citing that I am not allowed to question the director of the CCU and that he is brilliant. Any second opinions I did receive, did no tests at all and simply just stated Krieger's brilliance. I ordered a Nephrologist to come in and try and fix the mess, and Kreiger ordered him away multiple times. The icing on the cake, came on my mother's final night. Her vitals were going crazy and they refused to do anything for her. When I questioned this, I was told Krieger had suspended all treatment on my mom and that I had agreed. I told the charge nurse, this was not the case and she informed me that he also had placed a DNR on her. Totally against her wishes, a point that was established every time he decided to send someone in to talk me into it. My mother's wishes were to keep fighting and as her power of attorney and son, I informed them of that. I was told that Krieger is superseding my authority and her wishes. After I caused a scene and demanded they fix that and put it back to what it was, they did. At Midnight, on the way home, I get a call from Krieger which was surprising since he previously claimed he doesn't do phone calls, still trying to convince me to let him pull the plug. I again refused, and he told me he would be going in there to administer her medication. His last words to me were "I don't think she'll code anytime soon, but heh heh, she can be unpredictable." I hung up on him thinking he was just being rude. At about 3AM, I'm awoken by a phone call from hospital telling me my mother had coded, and they were trying to revive her. As I was getting ready to go down there, I received a second phone call saying she passed. When I asked what had happened, they said she had coded earlier in the night but they were able to revive her. I asked when and they told me it was a little after midnight. When I went up there, to see her i demanded to speak to Krieger, only to find out he conveniently went on a week long vacation.

I was in Critical Care at Memorial Hospital one year ago. This doctor was very uncaring and rude. Seemed to care less if I lived or not.

if this is doctor who was at mount Sinai in miami about 10 years ago stay far away. he diagnosed me with lung cancer ad told me I had a year to live. he turned my life upside down for three months, almost had my lung removed and all I had was histoplasmosis, ATOTAL MISDIAGNOESES

Best Bedside Manner of any Physician ever!!! Cares about his patients!!!!

is fast to assume that when people are old that it would be better to just let them die

he lied to his patient, power of attorney, and told him he would recover, would not be bed ridden in a nursing home... this patient is currently under hospice care, and "doctor" Kreger can't even return a phone call to his power of atoSTAY FAR AWAY FROM DR KREGER AT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, UNLESS YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH.