Phoenix Perinatal Associates

I loved my ultrasound at this location! I was very disappointed with Valley Perinatal so my doctor referred me here & I am so happy with the outcome. Wonderful staff that preform the ultrasounds! Wonderful doctor, he was very gentle & knowledgeable. To top it off, it was a very beautiful facility. Front desk receptionist was not very pleasant but I was in a happy mood so I didn't even let it get to me. Also, to call and schedule an appointment, the wait for the phone call to go through is always 5+ minutes.

DO NOT GO HERE! I HAD A MISSED DIAGNOSIS! I had a D&C when I was 9 weeks pregnant because there was no heartbeat anymore. They DID NOT do a pathology, which from what I have been told by other perinatologist's at different practices, is STANDARD procedure. There was no follow up after my D&C. No HCG test, no ultrasound. 7 weeks went by and I was curious if the HCG was out of my system. I had read that HCG is gone after 3-4 weeks. I took a pregnancy test and it was positive and I knew I wasn't pregnant. I called and scheduled an appointment for a blood draw and it came back as a concern. I had an ultrasound the next day at a different perinatologist's office because they could see me same day, and I was told I have gestational trophoblastic disease. Which means tumors growing in my uterus that could be cancer. This was diagnosed at a different perinatologist and he asked why there wasn't a pathology done because then they could see if it was a partial molar pregnancy. I called and talked to the perinatologist involved at Phoenix Perinatal, Dr Strong and Dr Cedars. The surgeon was Dr Huff. All three agreed it was a delay in treatment. The surgeon said he gives verbal orders to the nurses and the nurse didn't fill out the paperwork for the pathology. So he passed off responsibility on someone else. Had a pathology been done, I would have gotten the results 3 days later that showed I had a partial molar pregnancy. (After my diagnosis, they still had the remains to do a pathology and did one November 9th and it showed positive for partial molar pregnancy.) Had I been diagnosed with a partial molar pregnancy when I should have, I would have been treated right away and I would have been monitored. Instead I started chemo over 2 months after my D&C and was on it for 4 months. The cancer doctor advised not to get another D&C at the start of treatment because it would have been a high risk of a hysterectomy. He said the tumors were too big at that point. The doctor who oversaw everything (Dr Strong) said he missed that there wasn't a pathology done in the paperwork because he is "in and out of the office and assumed one of his colleges got it back and called me about it." This is unacceptable and a horrible excuse! You can't "assume" when it comes to someone's health. Dr. Strong called with the results of the chromosome test a month after my D&C, that they did do and it came back as abnormal with Triploidy. He DID NOT tell me to come in for a follow up for it. He assumed and said, "sometimes Triploidy can be a molar pregnancy but this is not the case with you." Well, that was completely untrue. You would think that if it shows abnormal, a high risk doctor would say lets get you checked out to make sure. But no, the only reason I found out I had a partial molar pregnancy/gestational trophoblastic disease (tumors in my uterus) was because of my own curiosity of if I would get a negative pregnancy test. They are so unorganized. My initial appointment was supposed to be with Dr Perlow but they called me the day before and said it was going to be Dr Cedars because Dr Perlow was at a different location and I couldn't go to that location. I read reviews after that of this happening all the time and that you get a different doctor every time. This is not ok either with being high risk, you want the same doctor each time who knows you and if familiar with everything. I reported them to the medical board and a reason they were questioning who my primary doctor was and said it was a systemic problem. I see it as a problem also with the doctors as well. How everything happened is not ok and has caused me to go through 4 months of chemo that would not have happened had they done the pathology like they should have. I would have started treatment much earlier and not needed to be on it as long had they done their job correctly. These doctors are perinatologists. That is very scary to me they missed something like this. They are specialists who are not looking out for the safety of their patients.