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The List
Castle Connolly and Chicago
Per our arrangement with Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., we have removed our Top Doctors list from chicagomag.com. We posted that list, first prepared exclusively for Chicago’s January 2008 issue, as a supplement to our January 2009 feature How to Deal with a Medical Crisis. Castle Connolly allowed us to keep that list up on our Web site for only three months.
That doesn’t mean you no longer have access to the list. While supplies last, copies of the January 2008 issue are available from Chicago at our customer service number: 800-999-0879. Castle Connolly, which publishes a number of national, regional, and metropolitan guides to doctors, posts its entire list on its Web site: castleconnolly.com. Generally, however, you will have to pay to use the list. Go to castleconnolly.com/membership/index.cfm to learn how you can enroll as a premium member, which, depending on how much you pay, allows you online access to the full list of more than 20,000 doctors nationwide for either a day ($9.95), a year ($24.95), or two years ($34.95). You can also enroll as a registered member, which provides you, free of charge, limited search capabilities of the list (approximately 20 to 25 percent of the list).
Working with Castle Connolly, Chicago will publish an updated list of approximately 350 Chicago-area doctors in its January 2010 issue. That issue should be available on newsstands on about December 17, 2009. We will also post the list at chicagomag.com, but again, only for a limited time.
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My son is currently receiving treatment for leukemia by two of the doctors you have on your top doc list. Dr. Hayani and Dr. Salvi have demonstrated to my family that they deserve to be on this list. Dr. Hayani and Dr. Salvi are not only excellent doctors they know how to communicate with the children on their level. It feels like these two doctors really understand and care about the childrens needs and will do everything they can to make them feel comfortable each time they visit the clinic. My family appreciates everything they have done for my son. I would also like to say that all of the nursing staff at Childrens Hope Hospital in Oaklawn Illinois are also top notch. Thank you so much for everything you have done for my son.
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Dr. MICHAEL ROSENBERG is listed. I guess you do not take into account that 700,000 people every year are damaged by LASIK.
I have seen a psychiatrist since having LASIK done by him. I was NEVER informed about pupil size, dry eyes or medications that can effect vision. I was told that I should use Alphagan P off label EVERY DAY, when a reputable study done at Texas Tech University shows that daily use for night vision causes tachyphylaxis. I was NEVER informed that the moon would never look the same, clothes in my closet would glow and the glare from surgery would be a daily distraction.
You list Dr. MICHAEL ROSENBERG as a top surgeon but he has had a very negative effect on my life.
My family had a negative experience with internist Jorge Balandrin. He had way too many patients and I thought he was more interested in making a name for himself or generating income than caring for his patients. He was my dying father's internist in 1999. When my father was diagnosed with his condition he was new to this area (south suburbs) and he didn't have a doctor, so Christ Hospital recommended Balandrin as a good internist. I'll never forget the time my father was in pain, extremely uncomfortable and we had to wait in his office for 3 hours before getting seen by Balandrin. The office was packed with patients, all of whom had appointments like my father did. I asked the nurse to please consider that my father was on time for his appointment, he was in pain and he needed to be seen right away so he could go home. She said the others in the office had appointments also and we had to wait. We were seen 3 hours after our appointment time.
At that time the end was near for my dad and he didn't want to make any changes, but I'll never forgive Balandrin and his office for their lack of sympathy for my father.
Dr. Everett Vokes is a very well-known name in the field of head and neck cancer. I personally worked as an RN at the hospital he is affiliated with and when my father was diagnosed with h&n cancer over 5 years ago he was the first on my list for my father to see. His attitude and lack of empathy during the consultation was disgusting. He repeatedly refered to my father as "the patient" to me directly in front of my father. Dr. Vokes also made the bold prediction that if my father did not choose his hospital and his protocol (which, by the way, has yet to be published with any substantial success numbers)my father would not be alive in 2 years. It is now 5 1/2 years later and my father is still very much alive and while the road has been a bit bumpy, he has a great quality of life. Dr. Vokes may be great in a lab but his bedside manner is absoulutely horrible.
I have been going to northwestern doctors recommended by you for quite sometime. Though some of them are clinically good, their attitude and behavior stink. They think they are above everybody. They never see patients in time. There is always 3 hrs or more delay time. This is a chronic situation and you should consider that when evaluating doctors.I also feel that they are overpaid. I am an engineer by profession and when I see that these doctors use all kinds of equipments and machines designed by engineers for these guys ( doctors) to use them as just end users, it kind of bothers me how they make several times more than engineers. Most of the doctors don't even know how to use sophisticated equipments to generate diagnostic results.Its about time they come back to earth and serve people.
Dr. Matthew Ross is listed again as one of the top neurosurgeons in Chicago - he is an exceptionally skilled surgeon and an amazing person. I went to Dr. Ross after 2 different diagnosis for cervical spondylosis with myelopathy.We were confused, scared (told not to fall, climb ladder, have car accident etc.) and exhausted by the time we were referred to him by our friend. He spent over TWO HOURS with us on our first visit using demo spines and white boarding explanations of the what and why he would solve two problems with one surgery. Surgeons are rarely known for personality, patient education, compassion or bedside manner. Dr. Ross gets A+ for all 4 classifications along with A+ for skill and the outcome of his surgery. He will always be the number one doctor for me and many of his patients. He changed our lives for the better.
Dr. Tom Mustoe, Northwestern Hospital, is repeatedly on the list of top doctors in the Chicago area nand rightfully so. His bedside manner, expertise in plastic surgery and willingness to listen are together, unique to find in one doctor. I did not have cosmetic surgery to enhance a body part but to regain something lost to cancer. I will never forget how beautiful he made me look once again. Consult him if you ever need a plastic surgeon! My surgical results look the same as they did almost 6 years post op.
catalona is as good as it gets. although a little busy with international speaking engagements he imbues respect for his dedication and commitment to prostrate cancer. peter miller