Dr. Robert E Fines, MD

He was the ER trauma dr in the ER when I was brought in for a stroke. I had a CT/cta done and waited for the results. He came in told me the CT was clean, but there was something on the CTA. a told me that I had something wrong with my brain, and then left the hospital!!! I didn't know he had left till someone came in, and when I asked I was told he was gone for the day and the new dr did not know I was there.

I had a horrible experience with this dr in the emergency room he was rude and unprofessional. I was in excruciating pain and he roughly examined and when I screamed out in pain he just stared at me with a blank look no compassion. I don’t see how he is a dr let alone an er doctor I can’t wait until I feel better and can report him to the proper people, not just online rating.

Just going through some of Carolyn's old things....(THIS WAS IN THE DAYS BEFORE THERE WAS A vitals.com). She visited this hospital in December of 2004 with a goal of being admitted to battle her cancer of the omentum. Somehow she got shuttled to the Emer. Dept. and things "went downhill from there," in the words of a physician on her medical records. Dr. Robert Fines saw her and her complaint of abdominal pain was consistent with her few weeks old diagnosis of cancer of the omentum (caked 3 layers deep). Nonetheless, on the heels of her having had contrast recently, and in spite of the fact that her BUN & Creatinine levels were contraindicative to contrast, Dr. Fines gave Carolyn contrast to see if her colon had been perforated during an earlier colonoscopy. No perforation found, but the contrast Fines administered, with the earlier contrast still in her kidneys, led to COMPLETE RENAL FAILURE, "secondary to contrast" per her medical records written by her nephrologist, Thomas… Officer, M.D. A 2nd dialysis failed due to a blocked dialysis port. Anesthesia for surgery to unblock or replace the port would have been fatal, so Carolyn was left to die at the age of 66, just 7 months after her retirement. This was not simply a case of just poor judgment or a rude doctor who would not listen or a misdiagnosis, it was a case of a catastrophic medical error that cost a woman her life. I was told that the issue was discussed in hospital and the results were kept under lock and key. So I've no idea what happened, but Dr. Fines still practices medicine.

didn't listen and was completely dismissive - shouldn't be working in an ER

This doctor was dismissive and rude. Had he taken the time to actually listen to what I was telling him, he could have ordered one simple imaging test that would have shown a kidney stone blocking my bladder, something I ended up waiting 4 more days for at a follow-up visit with a urologist! I told this dr. that very night the symptoms that pointed right to that. But he kept interrupting me, told me to ask my urologist and gave me perscriptions for medicine and sent me on my way. Could have saved me so much pain and suffering if he'd have just listened. Lucky I hadn't gotten sicker, I was so blocked up by then. Treatment at MWH in general that night was worst I ever had and this dr. was worst of all - and I have good health insurance... scary to think what the uninsured are treated like. Didn't even feel like a person through this whole thing - just another "case" to be dealt with. If you can request another dr., do so!!!