Tamara Hunter

Review of Digestive Health Clinic

I had a routine colonoscopy in which a very large ...

I had a routine colonoscopy in which a very large polyp was removed and the doctor did not use clips to close the wound even though I told him I bleed easily. A week later I started bleeding and lost 4 pints of blood. It was evening and the on call nurse said "it couldn't be from the colonoscopy just call your doctor in the morning." It WAS from the colonoscopy. I called them as soon as the office opened but they didn't have time to see me until 1:00pm that day and told me to check into the hospital at that time. The doc didn't show up until 3:30 to fix the damage they did. Now I have a $4.000 bill from St Als for the treatment. I met with the doctor and he waived the almost $2,000 fee from his clinic but refused to cover the hospital bill. Now I am very anemic and it will be so for a couple of months. I would not go to this clinic and as a case manager in town will never send another client to it.