I went to Dr. Barta and Midtown for several years for GYN services, so they seemed a natural pick for my 1st pregnancy. However, I was really, really disappointed in how we were treated. It was a bad match. I felt like I was not an equal player in my care. Examples: 1. I was diagnosed with placenta previa at 14 wks, but was never told what might happen and what level of concern I should have, so when 3 days after my appointment I hemorrhaged at work I thought I was miscarrying. 2. We had to ask the billing staff multiple times for estimates on what the pregnancy and birth would cost. 3. When I was 7mo pregnant we found out (by accident) that Dr. Barta had scheduled her vacation over my expected due date. 4. When I thought that some of the tests/exams they wanted to do were excessive Dr. Barta told me I should think about ""the worst case scenario"" when making decisions. 5. No doctor from Midtown showed up for my delivery, so our baby was delivered by a resident (5 min), the attending (another 5 min) and the hospital's on-call doctor (the last 20 minutes) this doc told my husband ""she's not pushing right"" and spent the 20 minutes checking her pager and trying to get out to go to the next patient. 6. None of my pregnancy medical records made it to the hospital (even though Midtown's policy is to update them at the hospital every week during the last part of the pregnancy) so the hospital want to do IV antibiotics on me and/or our baby which we had to refuse multiple times. All in all we had a healthy baby, but I am still disappointed enough with our experience that I am writing this months after it is all over.
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