Elevated Spirit

Review of Palmetto Health

They like to give you the run around if you are th...

They like to give you the run around if you are there for an elective tubal ligation or bilateral salpingectomy. Horrible customer communication from the Outpatient Surgery Department and intentional time-wasting was done to me because of racist, antiquated, Republican, and religious views about WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS.

I waited 10 months to be scheduled for the surgery and they waited until I was in the pre-op room there at 5:30 am to start pushing back my surgery time and giving me silly excuses. I decided to leave after waiting for 3.5 hours and would not let Kristl Vidya Dorschner Tomlin, MD of Prisma Health/Palmetto Health USC OB-GYN do anything to me after the run around I received from her and her office about having the procedure as a permanent means of birth control. The denial was INTENTIONAL.

I was made to wait when the Outpatient Surgery floor was literally empty and nurses were sitting around gossiping about whether I had a fiance' or not. There is much evidence online that doctors are denying women sterilization in this country if they are not married, and are even saying well just tell your man to get a vasectomy.

Just Google "blocked from female sterilization" and all the evidence is there. If Tomlin didn't want to do it, she could have told me in March 2019 when I first met with her for the first consult, not put me on the schedule after all these months and then tell her staff to give me the run-around when I got up at 3 A.M. to be there.

If I cared about staying in this crap state, I would sue them. This was complete and intentional, unethical medical mischief. Most people know when they are being bull-shitted by a doctor and staff. She never had any intention of doing the surgery and was giving me pushback and trying to talk me out of it from the first time I met with her in March 2019. I will be going elsewhere and I recommend any women who want this procedure go out-of-state because you will be played with here.

Literally, they invented rule after rule after rule to stall my surgery. Oddly, none of these rules were stated either verbally nor written by Tomlin, her staff, nor Outpatient surgery during the 3 months between the last consult in May 2019 and my pre-op appointment on 08/19/19. Nothing was said about such rules then, either. Also, at my 08/19/19 pre-op appointment, the nurse noted that Tomlin had not put in ANY orders for my surgery. When I arrived at 5:30 AM on 08.30.19 as told to by staff, there were still not any orders in.

It is VERY CLEAR SHE NEVER INTENDED TO DO MY SURGERY. KRISTL V. DORSCHNER TOMLIN NEVER CAME TO SEE ME IN THE PRE-OP ROOM, AND I AM THINKING IT IS BECAUSE SHE WASN'T EVEN AT THE HOSPITAL AT THE TIME. I HONESTLY THINK SHE WAS CALLING FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE AND MAKING THEM STALL ME. THIS IS A RACIST PLACE AND I AM GLAD I WAS SPARED FROM A POSSIBLE BOTCHED/INCOMPLETE PROCEDURE.

I also noticed that she tends to work in staunchly Republican states, so it is obvious from her push back about sterilization that she is allowing her views to infringe upon the rights of patients. If she isn't for women's reproductive rights, maybe she ought to find something else to do other than being a goddamned OB-GYN!!!!

I remember saying to hell with this hospital 12 years ago, and going to Duke for my care all the last 12 years. I wish the Feds would just step in, and sue them royally just like they did Tuomey (aka TOMBSTONE) in Sumter, SC. It is technically illegal to deny women the right to choose sterilization in this country. I am moving to Europe in 2 months, and will have it done there.

When I was at this hospital in 2006, they made me wait 8 hours in the emergency room in excruciating pain, and then repeatedly disrespected me as a patient after I was brought back to a room and admitted, to the point where I had to walk out AMA, and file a State Medical Board complaint. Got back to a room, saw most were EMPTY, yet had been waiting for 8 hours. South Carolina has HORRIBLE MEDICAL CARE IN GENERAL. Will never recommend.