Dr. Rachel Guess

The first time I met this woman she threw out a diagnosis of POTS at my daughter without even doing any testing. She was dismissive of the various symptoms I informed/showed her my daughter was experiencing, the testing we had already done in an attempt to find out what was going on or that we did to rule out certain conditions before my daughter's pediatrician decided my daughter needed a Pediatric Rheumatologist. Finally, after I became frustrated and angry, she ordered bloodwork which resulted in a high ANA. I had to FIGHT (not physically obviously) her to even get my child proper care. 6 months post the first appointment my daughter had her second appointment which was made due to the high ANA 6 months prior to retest her ANA. While Rachel was more pleasant during this appointment she forgot to even order a retest of her ANA which was the whole purpose of setting the appointment up 6 months later. I had to find out several days later and that "they weren't concerned" and we could… wait another 6 months to find out if my daughter's ANA was still high... I had to request the test order be sent to our local hospital so we could get the bloodwork done which resulted in confirming my daughter's ANA was still high 6 months after the first test. Rachel also did not heed the Pediatric Specialists (GI and Allergy/Immunology) that my daughter has already seen as part of our attempt to address/diagnose/rule out certain conditions and tried to refer my daughter back to those same types of Pediatric Specialists my daughter has already seen where it was determined that her symptoms do not pertain to those Specialties. Today I received a call to reschedule her appointment 5 months from now and I asked for my daughter to be put with a new Pediatric Rheumatologist. Hopefully we might actually get answers after (at the time of her next appointment) working on trying to figure it out for a YEAR AND A HALF while my daughter's symptoms seem to only continue to be getting worse and effect her life more and more.