Michael Wiechmann, MD

I saw Dr Wiechmann for about 2 years beginning in 2011 after spending a couple of days at the hospital in Templeton. On my follow-up visits he never engaged me in conversation about what my goals were. He just kept coming up with additional diagnoses to add to my AFIL & CHF, and continued to add more meds to my regimen. Whenever I would try to engage him in a serious conversation, he would always give that "deer in the headlight look". He actually thought that I should take whatever he prescribed with no discussion of side-effects nor consideration that it was my body and not his. When I would complain about the side effects of one of his meds, he would just say, "Go see your primary". Hey, it was his meds causing the problem, not some other doctor. Eventually, for my own survival I had to stop taking all of his prescriptions and stop going to his office. It is now 7 years later and my CHF is gone (which I was told would never be gone), and who knows what happened to all those other… diagnoses. I still have AFIB, but I am surviving quite well by the grace of God, without the services of a cardiologist. So many doctors fail to understand that they are not gods, instead they are a resource.