Dr. James Peter Vandorsten, MD

My wife and I suffered a stillborn child and Dr. Van Dorsten was the attending for our case at MUSC where we had been referred by my wife's regular OB following the diagnosis that our baby had died in utero. We never saw him until about an hour before discharge. The other younger doctors (who were doing the actual "doctoring" for us) were excellent. We were visited by a young female doctor a couple hours prior to Van Dorsten's visit and she was extremely nice and concerned about us. She had told us early in our conversation that the attending doctor would visit soon so we (mistakenly) did not ask her a lot of questions. However, it took us both about 60 seconds after he was in our room to realize that he was there simply as a formality. Rather than us asking him our questions about what had happened to us, he was asking my wife questions. He even asked her how long she was going to take a medication she was on!! Seriously!?!?!?!? We were quite disappointed because we didn't see… another doctor before we were discharged. Had we known that Van Dorsten's visit would turn out as it did, we would have asked the younger doctor our questions earlier in the day. He wasn't mean, rude, or anything like that... rather he just seemed like he was breezing through the hospital talking to some folks before he went golfing. We had hoped to have a serious discussion with him about what had happened to us. Instead we left the hospital with our grief and our questions.

Dr. Vandorsten saved my life and my son's life almost 25 years ago. He is wise, ethical, and extremely caring. I owe him everything.