Smith Tammy G MD
| Category: | Pediatrician |
| Address: | 2610 US-129 BUS, Jefferson, GA 30549, USA |
| Phone: | +1 706-367-1010 |
| Rating: | 3 |
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Jay Braver
Dr. Smith puts on an "old country doctor" persona and she was fine for easy things like vaccinations but for any actual problems, youre better off getting your kids treated elsewhere. My kids are older now but the interaction that typifies her services went like this: Me: Hi, my daughter has something stuck in her eye. Do you have some way to immobilize her head to take it out? Nurse: Hmm. Just bring her down and well check it out. Me: Yes but she flinches when we try to touch her eye. Youre going to need to strap her head down to remove the debris. Nurse: Sure. Just bring her down and well take care of it. So, we go to Smiths office and she tries to take it out for all of one minute and she has the same flinching problem we did. Smith: Shes flinching her head so I cant get it out of her eye. Me: Yes, I know. Lets strap her head down so you can hold her eye open and get it out. Smith: I dont have anything like that and cant get it done. Me: But I called before I came and the nurse said you did and that you could take care of this. Smith: I dont have the simple equipment to hold her head steady to remove the foreign object from her eye. Nurse: Ok, were charging your insurance company $500 for the visit and your co-pay is $100 Me: Seriously? But you literally did nothing!?!? Nurse: Your child was seen by the doctor so you owe for the appointment. Me: What? I phoned before I came here to make sure you could do this and you said you could so I should come. But you actually didnt have the equipment you said you did. The doctor didnt do anything and she tried for less than a minute. We received no service that we were informed you could perform. Smith: You came and I looked so you owe. I was unemployed at the time, told them so, and it didnt matter. Ended up going to an eye doctor who fixed it in less than a minute and I had to pay a second co-pay. After that, of course, we knew when there were any problems to skip smith and go to the specialists doctors who have real skill and professional equipment. Again, Id take my kids back to her for vaccinations but thats about all she was qualified to do in my experience.
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Jennifer Fretz
They refused to see my son with a painful ear infection not because they didnt have any openings - but because of their policy to not see new patients on Mondays or Tuesdays. So they will let my son be in pain an extra day because of policy? Not the way I would expect a pediatrician to treat a child. You just lost 2 potential new patients.
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A Private User
my daughter had hyperthyroidism and this doctor said she had asthma not happy at all because my daugther could have being in danger.
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Leif Lindquist
They gave me a band aid after my shot