Dr. Elizabeth Stanto Wettick, MD

Is a great doctor someone who knows her stuff? Someone who can make a quick diagnosis and recommend effective treatments? Someone who comes off as very empathetic and understanding?Someone who lies to you to avoid confrontation? Someone who promises to follow up with an emergency situation the next day but who deliberately waits until Friday afternoon to have someone else leave a voicemail letting you know you're out in the cold? Someone who actively hides information and refuses to answer direct questions about your medical care?Someone who punishes a patient for not following the unwritten rules by deliberately sabotaging your relationship with future doctors by falsifying or condoning the falsification of, your medical records by filling in the log for a phantom appointment on a date several days after your last real appointment? Someone who has instructed her office staff to tell you that she's seeing a patient and will call you back in an hour with no intention of calling… back?Most doctors "look out for number one" to a certain extent, but violating several of the AMA's ethical guidelines to cover up a mistake made by another doctor at the practice shows that the patient isn't even "number two." How far down the list do you want to be the next time you see a doctor?If you go in with a clearly-defined problem that can be fixed with a few unregulated prescriptions, you will find a very pleasant, very competent doctor who seems happy to have helped. Just don't be the patient with the chronic health problem that can be treated but not cured. She won't tell you to leave. She won't even make you leave.She'll just make you very, very willing to go.