Dr. Tejaswini Kumar, MD

She hid test results from me and denied the test ever happened. I had to get the results through my insurance and a pathology lab in Ohio Which then proved the test happened She is no longer my doctor Beware of truth and or care from her

Dr. T. Kumar diagnosed mitrovalve regurgitation---& knew (From testing, etc.) that it was caused by my severe asthma! I had experienced swelling of the feet & ankles for about 2 years before meeting with Dr. T. Kumar. Her diagnosis made a big difference in my life; with a "water pill" prescription, I seldom have any swelling. She also realized that my asthma/allergy symptoms were getting progressively worse, after battling them for more than a decade, & doing everything "right": allergy shots, inhalers, prescribed pills for allergies, etc. I was in the hospital three times in 7 years. I'd been a patient of Dr. T. Kumar about a year previous to the most recent visit to intensive care. She told me that she knew I liked the Yellowstone Region very much, & she also suggested Reno, Nevada, as a great area for me to literally 'breathe' in :) She even wrote my husband a note, explaining that if we didn't move away from Indiana's humid, allergy-laden atmosphere, I'd have COPD by the time I was… 50!I'm going to be 49 next month, & instead of being on 6-8 medications for asthma/allergies daily, I now have just an albuterol inhaler & an Advair inhaler. No more allergy shots, etc. It's an amazing difference in my life---just by taking her advice & moving to Montana 3 years ago! I'll never forget how great a doctor she is---she saved me from COPD!

This doctor is rude. The first time I saw her, I was very cordial and well prepared with a typed medical history and medication information, but she was not only uninterested in my objections to the type of medicine she prescribed [poor previous results, plus valid fears over a side effect which would play into a family cancer susceptbiity], she tried to deceive me with the prescription she wrote. [Eventually, I got my customary medicine renewed from her, through sheer stubborness on my part.] She told me, on that first visit, "I have enough stress in my personal life that I don't want any stress from a patient. I think you should find another doctor." Much easier said that done; believe me, I WANT another doctor!... She missed hearing the heart arrythmia I know I have, and others have NOT missed, and the mitral valve stenosi. She does not understand, or her nurse does not, that certain drugs must be written on special prescription pads. When she wrote a prescription for a… specially regulated drug on an ordinary prescription pad, and I accepted it without comment, knowing it would be rejected by the pharmacy, [and then had the pharmacy call her, not myself, so she could not feel I was making trouble for her], and tell her it had not been validly prepared--they absolutely refused the prescription because of the manner in which it had been prepared-- I went back and got the properly prepared prescription. Her nurse handed it to me as I walked up to the window; I said nothing except a polite "thank you" and then the nurse said; "I think you are going to have to find another doctor." This is the nurse who is a US native "ethnically 'from around here'," but she does not speak grammatically, so one has little confidence in her academic record as a nurse. This nurse and the doctor are extremely hostile. I was always polite. Send the doctor back to India; she obviously came her to "get rich" but has no cultural sensitivity to her US patients. [And I happen to LIKE Indian doctors!] She apparently has trouble relating to a woman with an education who knows her own body and what it's problems have been. I would not trust her for anything, and am going to try to find another doctor. By her own admission there is some sort of stress in her family life, and she has no business passing her frustrations along to her dealings with her patients.