A large group of my friends all had Jackie Snow for our annual exams. We saw her for many years and loved her. She was very thorough, really cared about women's issues and had a great bedside manner. However, we soon began calling her ""doom and gloom Jackie"" because there was always something she found wrong with us and made it seem like a very big deal; did not put our minds at ease. The reason I stopped going there was because I had an abdominal ultrasound, then a vaginal ultrasound and she told me I needed surgery to deal with a pedunculated fibroid. I told her I wanted my records to get a 2nd opinion and she told me she had consulted with Dr. Karen Blanchard in her office and she also agreed I needed the surgery. Nonetheless, I took my records to an independent OG/GYN and he did 2 ultrasounds, 2 vaginal ultrasounds and could not find anything. He said his best guess was that they were misinterpreting a shadow for the fibroid. I did not have surgery and 15 years later I have never had any problems.
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