Geisinger Medical Center

"I HAD TO STAY LONGER THAN MOST BECAUSE OF COMPLICATIONS.. SO I WAS IN 7 DAYS AND THE ROOM I WAS IN WAS UNCOMFORTABLE--THE CLIMATE CONTROL WAS HORRIBLE AND IT TRIGGERED MY SINUSES AND ALLERGIES.. SO I WAS HAPPY TO GO HOME--I COMPLAINED EVERY DAY AND THEY KEPT TELLING ME THAT ALL THE ROOMS WERE LIKE THAT--NOT SURE IF I BELIEVED THEM--MY NOSE CONSTANTLY RAN....NO FUN ON TOP OF ALL THE PAIN I HAD"

Peter N. Benotti

"Dr Peter Benott in Danville PA at Geisingers Medical Center is a very strict Surgeon.. He is very tough.. One of the best Weight Loss surgeons around. His personality is not the best tho.. I am having surgery on 2/6 ane he has cancelled my lst surgery for 12/4 due to some health problems-especially anemia.. ABd he stil wants more infro from my prime doc about my health before he operates--but he did this time let me go to the pre-admissions education and testing--they took 9 tubes of blood out of me.. I have been thru the reemer with test after tests and blood work after blood work for the past yr.. I have diabetes and i am subjuset to cellulitis..rn iF I HAD TO CHOSE ANOTHER SURGEON I WOULD HAVE PICKED DR STRODEL--HE IS MORE POPULAR--BUT I CHOSE DR BENOTTI BECASUE HE IS HEAD OF SURGERY IN DANVIEE AND HE IS SUPPOSED TO HANDLE MOST OF THE HIGH RISK PATIENTS I WAS TOLD BY ANOTHER GEISINGER DOTOR--NOW I AM BEGINNING TO WONDER--HE IS JUST TOO FUSSY & I PRAY THAT ALL GOES WELL--,MY PRIME DOC IS DISCUSTED WITH HIM SAYING HE WANTS MORE RECORDS AND SHE SENDS THEM TO HIM AND HE SAYS THAT HE DOES NOT RECEIVE THEM..rn I WILL LET YOU KNOW WHAT I REALLY THINK OF HIM OVERALL AFTER MY SURGERY.. HE DID YELL AT ME ON MY FIRST VISIT AND I DID NOT APPRECIATE THAT! I THINK SURGICAL CONFIDENCE AND A GOOD BEDSIDE MANNER IS EXTREMEMLY IMPOORTANT..rn WELL IT HAS BEEN JUST 1 DAY PAST MY 2 WEEKS SINCE SURGERY-- I HAD A ROUGH TIME OF IT--BUT DR BENOTTI WAS EXCELLENT--I AM GLAD NOW THAT HE IS MY SURGEON--I GOT POISON IN MY BLOOD AND PNEUMONIA IN MY LEFT LUNG AND HE HANDLED EVERYTHING VERY EXCELLENTLY AND HE SHOWED A TENDER SIOE OF HIMSELF AS HE WAS REALLY WORRIED ABOUT ME AND I THANK MY GOD FOR HIM AND I MOSTLY THANK GOD FOR GETTING ME THRU THE HARD TIMES..rn I RECOMMEND DR BENOTTI TO ANYONE AND NOW I AM GLAD THAT HE WAS SUCH A STICKLER BEFORE MY SURGERY AND I UNDERSTAND WHY HE WANTED EVERYTHING TO BE AS WELL WITH ME AS IT COULD BE BEFORE THIS SURGERY--OTHERWISE I MIGHT HAVE DIED--HE IS A PERFECTIONIST AND THAT CAN BE A GOOD QUALITY!"
About Me
EXETER, PA
Location
28.9
BMI
RNY
Surgery
02/06/2007
Surgery Date
Dec 20, 2005
Member Since

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