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Originally Posted by SALYBOW
I have dealt with Dr. Gillikin twice and was very pleased both times. She does have a quirky sense of humor however.
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Just goes to show have patients have very different perceptions of the same doctor.
First of all, I feel sorry for the OP and hope he/she gets better quickly. But with the limited information posted, I have about a million comments I could make
Staff attitude and bedside manner aside, do you think it is unreasonable to get either a MRI or bone scan in a patient with a fracture and unresolved cellulitis who failed 2 weeks of a flouroquinolone antibiotic in order to exclude osteomyelitis? Because Dr. Gillikin was 100% correct to order one of them. The implication that she was "incompetent" is truly outrageous, unless the OP has gone to 4 years of medical school, 3 years of Internal Medicine residency and 2 years of Infectious Disease fellowship as well.
And now for something much more important and deadly serious----did the Ocala physicians get an MRI or bone scan? The OP mentioned 10 days of "2 hour a day" therapy. The 2 hours has nothing to do with severity, it simply that it takes an hour each IV bag of antibiotic to be infused. However, while 10 days IV therapy followed by more oral antibiotics is appropriate for cellulitis, it is TOTALLY INADEQUATE for osteomyelitis, which requires
6 weeks of IV therapy. So what is Ocala treating, cellulitis or osteomyelitis? Do they realize that if an osteomyelitis is inadequately treated the patient could lose their leg, or worse? Without a specific diagnosis, would you like to know who I think is "incompetent"
So, again with limited info, I would be asking the ID specialist in Ocala if I have osteomyelitis, and how do they know if I do or don't.