Dr. Timothy Frank Archer, MD

I have had 2 run ins with this dr in the ER. The first time I took my goddaughter in having a severe asthma attack. He fixated on making sure I wasn’t molesting her (there was NO indication of any such thing) rather than addressing her breathing difficulties. Her lips were blue and she was clearly struggling to breathe. I had written permission on file with the hospital to make decisions in an emergency situation as she spent quite a lot of time with me. The second run in he ‘diagnosed’ my husband without ever walking into the room. Said he had cellulitis. He did not. Later that day we returned to the ER and he had to have emergency surgery to not lose his finger. The surgeon said there was nothing that remotely looked like cellulitis and surgery earlier in the day would have resulted in a much better outcome. In retrospect we should have sued this doctor.

I was treated with great care, timeliness, friendliness, concern. Dr. Archer was extremely caring, friendly, took time to explain was going, answer questions. He was very reassuring. I felt that if I had any other question or concern he would have been more than happy to answer and explain.

I was seen my Dr. Archer in Longview, TX at Regional Hospital in the Emergency Room. During my initial intake in the ER Dr. Gonzales was on call and, though I had to wait an hour to finally see her. She was apologetic about the wait time because of my urgent care situation. And during the same visit while waiting of a CAT scan, Dr. Archer took over replacing Dr. Gonzales who was no longer on call. Dr. Archer barged in the er room where I was waiting for the results of the cat scan in unbearable and excruciating pain yelling at me that I had an intestinal blockage and would require a nasal gastric tube to relieve the blockage and deflate the stomach and to prevent vomiting. When I asked if there was a chance of me vomiting while having the nasal gastric tube he became irate and berating me about not listing to him and was appalled that I had asked him to repeat himself though it was 3 am and I was in severe pain. He was a total jerk and acted as if was on speed or something by yelling… and becoming confrontational regarding a procedure that I was going to undergo. If you care about your health or a loved ones, you will steer clear of Longview Regionals ER.