Complaint Review: University Hospitals University Suburban Health Center - South Euclid Ohio
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- University Hospitals University Suburban Health Center 1611 South Green Road South Euclid, Ohio United States of America
- Phone: 216-382-9492
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- Category: Doctors
University Hospitals University Suburban Health Center Thomas Stellato MD, Medical Director have taken to reporting patients who ask to discuss care problems with the South Euclid police - not wanted if Dr. Stellato, or his office manager, has goofed South Euclid, Ohio
*Consumer Comment: comment
*Consumer Comment: Formal actions against Dr. Rita Kralik
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Dr. Stellato is the Medical Director of University Suburban Green Road medical facility, and has a long history of achievements at University Hospitals. But his latest foray into medical care is a bit of a bust.
Dr. Stellato is not trained in Medicine, rather in Bariatric Surgery, and yet he can't repair some abdominal muscles, but has the patient reported to the police for asking - he can't discuss for 5 minutes even with a family member. Dr. Stellato should be able to say who can do a particular repair, as he was the Hubay Professor of Surgery for years, and nearly the Chief of Surgery at University Hospitals. And he should be more of a participant in the surgical education there, despite the fact that Dr. Ponsky - his senior - was chosen. Rivalries are good for medicine & surgery, they foster different ideas and competition to improve things is a good thing.
Dr. Ponsky was writing surgical literature when Dr. Stellato was still a Chief Resident. Not everyone can be Chief, and you can't show that you are good with teaching unless you keep at it = unless you show for Surgical Rounds and put in a comment for discussion once in awhile. The residents in Surgery at UH are not getting an experience of Cleveland surgeons, they are getting a lesson in politics - which they didn't come to Cleveland or UH for. But to just not be able to say who can repair such-and-such to a colleague is just 'nasty.' Steve Jobs was fired from the company he founded, and yet he created Pixar Studios.
Threatening someone because they put something on the Internet that Dr. Stellato won't 'discuss,' is not ok. Just be a Steve Jobs and everyone can say wonderful things - just answer the questions. Just spend 5 minutes discussing instead of 30 complaining to the police department - and the police department should not have someone's 'confidential' records from any UH facility.
Who does repair abdominal muscles anymore, muscles cut by a Mayo Clinic surgeon doing a procedure that was not consented to? Muscles cut for the Israel Defense Fund, or some child's college fund, apparently? The layered muscle fascia closure - who does it? Simple question.
The repair only involves sewing some muscle fascias in a layered closure: Surgery residency 101 - a procedure taught in training 20 years ago. Yet everyone these days wants to do a common mass closure and create a painful disfiguring abdominal wall deformity? Even for robot and endoscope port holes, these excrescences are becoming hard for other health care colleagues to handle or excuse - it's just sloppy surgery and you can't keep injecting these tissue masses. It takes only one pack of running suture = the reason? surgeons can't use more than one pack of running suture is?
Dr. Stellato should be able to answer the question without the SE police department. And if he could answer the question on that one: the answer would be all over the internet if he had a repair. Dr. Grundfest says that she has a repair, but she really doesn't, but that it would involve extensive surgery. Translation: lots of money for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
And Dr. Stellato can't even see being a bariatric metabolic surgeon, that a T4 is not the workup for a thyroid problem - and he did thyroid surgery as part of his residency training. And that if a patient has obesity, or anything that could be caused by thyroid, ie thyroid neuropathy - then you have to order the whole panel before taking the patient to surgery? He seems to have forgotten this.
Dr. Stellato's secretary/office manager is one of the few that can't call a patient, or a physician, to confirm an appointment or a surgery - then she blames it on the patient or referring physician that they didn't get her message or get through to her. Even hair salons can do this - but she can't - and then she blames the patient for standing Dr. Stellato up - when the patient had not gotten confirmation to come or the time, no pre-op sheets given, mailed, faxed or emailed. And communication modalities have improved - you can text or twitter.
But to call the SE police on people/patients that you do this to is just plain crazy and stupid. Stupid for all the University Healthcare System to be part of that kind of behavior. And the management agrees with Dr. Stellato on who he blames for his problems - yet Dr. Rosen sent the patient back to Dr. Stellato for a reason. Show Dr. Rosen the muscle repair and he might have some respect for Dr. Stellato.
Patients, and physicians, think that because of Dr. Stellato's achievements his advice might be worth getting, so they ask. But they don't want to be accused of things that they couldn't do, or surgeries that they thought they had cancelled, and never gotten the pre-op instructions for, because of another health problem. And the fact is that C**** does not do things the way that other office managers do; she won't call the second number, won't leave a message, won't confirm - no matter how many Secretary Day's gifts she collects.
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#2 Consumer Comment
comment
AUTHOR: Jeanski - (USA)
SUBMITTED: Saturday, January 07, 2012
wow - I nearly missed this one. I see Rita has someone new to complain about. I seem to recall another one of her complaints that had something to do with repair of her abdomen, but don't remember the specifics. In any event, she has, once again, maligned the medical professionals in Ohio for her own crazy reasons.
Go back on the meds Rita. Your crazy is showing again.
#1 Consumer Comment
Formal actions against Dr. Rita Kralik
AUTHOR: Robert - (USA)
SUBMITTED: Friday, January 06, 2012
You're not an MD anymore so quit using that as your ID. Your license to practice was suspended indefinitely almost 20 years ago because you REFUSED to submit to a Board ordered psychological evaluation. The evaluation was ordered because of your increasingly BIZARRE behavior. Of note was your outburst in another doctor's office where you were witnessed to repeatedly bang your wrists on a table in what appeared to be an attempt by you to re-fracture your wrists.
The entire case file is available on line from the official Ohio governmental website: http://med.ohio.gov/formala/35050161.pdf
The Ohio Medical Board License website also lists the actions taken to prevent you from practicing medicine. This can be found here: https://license.ohio.gov/Lookup/SearchDetail.asp?ContactIdnt=3038546&DivisionIdnt=78&Type=L
Every time you make one of these postings, I'm going to post the links to the Ohio governmental websites that will let readers know what REALLY happened and WHY.
Get some help Rita. You will most likely NEVER practice medicine again. Find something else to do with your life. Your internet rants are pointless and just make us lay folk believe that the Board's action was correct and appropriate.
Here is the contact list of actions taken to suspend your license indefinitely:
https://license.ohio.gov/Lookup/SearchDetail.asp?ContactIdnt=3038546&DivisionIdnt=78&Type=L
The complete file with supporting documents is here: http://med.ohio.gov/formala/35050161.pdf
Formal Action(s)
12/11/2003:BOARD ORDER - APPLICATION FOR REINSTATEMENT OF MEDICAL LICENSE DENIED; 4/17/96 INDEFINITE SUSPENSION ORDER TERMINATED AND SUPERCEDED BY THIS ORDER OF INDEFINITE SUSPENSION; CONDITIONS FOR REINSTATEMENT ESTABLISHED. ORDER ENTERED DUE TO DOCTOR'S FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH BOARD-ORDERED EXAMINATION, RESULTING IN BOARD'S FINDING, PURSUANT TO SECTION 4731.22(B)(19), O.R.C., THAT DOCTOR IS UNABLE TO PRACTICE ACCORDING TO ACCEPTABLE AND PREVAILING STANDARDS OF CARE BY REASON OF MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ILLNESS. JOURNAL ENTRY) NOTICE MAILED 12/11/03; PERSONAL AND MAIL SERVICE REFUSED; NOTICE REMAILED 12/30/03; ORDER EFFECTIVE UPON SUCCESSFUL SERVICE OF NOTICE ON 12/31/03.
04/10/1997:COURT ACTION - BY DECISION RENDERED ON 4/10/97, THE TENTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS AFFIRMED THE 8/1/96 JUDGMENT OF FRANKLIN COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, WHICH HAD DISMISSED DOCTOR S APPEAL OF BOARD S 4/17/96 INDEFINITE SUSPENSION ORDER BASED ON DOCTOR'S FAILURE TO FILE NOTICE OF APPEAL WITH MEDICAL BOARD. ENTRY FILED 4/10/97.
09/04/1996:COURT ACTION - NOTICE OF APPEAL OF 8/1/96 COMMON PLEAS COURT DECISION FILED IN TENTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS BY DOCTOR ON 8/30/96.
08/01/1996:COURT ACTION - BY DECISION AND ENTRY FILED 8/1/96, FRANKLIN COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS GRANTED BOARD S MOTION TO DISMISS DOCTOR S APPEAL BASED ON DOCTOR S FAILURE TO FILE NOTICE OF APPEAL WITH BOARD.
05/02/1996:COURT ACTION - NOTICE OF APPEAL OF BOARD S 4/17/96 INDEFINITE SUSPENSION ORDER FILED BY DOCTOR WITH FRANKLIN COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS ON 5/2/96.
04/17/1996:BOARD ORDER - MEDICAL LICENSE INDEFINITELY SUSPENDED; CONDITIONS FOR REINSTATEMENT AND SUBSEQUENT PROBATIONARY TERMS, CONDITIONS AND LIMITATIONS FOR AT LEAST TWO YEARS ESTABLISHED. DUE TO MENTAL ILLNESS. EFFECTIVE 4/18/96.
05/04/1995:COURT ACTION - BY MEMORANDUM DECISION RENDERED ON 5/4/95, TENTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS DENIED BOARD'S APPLICATION FOR RECONSIDERATION AND/OR CLARIFICATION OF ITS 2/21/95 OPINION.
02/21/1995:COURT ACTION - BY OPINION RENDERED ON 2/21/95, TENTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS REVERSED DECISION OF COURT OF COMMON PLEAS AND REMANDED CASE TO MEDICAL BOARD FOR NEW HEARING, WITH INSTRUCTIONS THAT ALL EVIDENCE RELIED UPON TO SUPPORT CONCLUSION THAT DOCTOR IS UNFIT TO PRACTICE MUST BE INCLUDED IN THE HEARING RECORD. INDEFINITE SUSPENSION TO REMAIN IN EFFECT. ENTRY FILED 3/3/95. DECISION FILED IN COMMON PLEAS COURT ON 3/16/95, REMANDING CASE BACK TO MEDICAL BOARD FOR REHEARING.
05/03/1994:COURT ACTION - NOTICE OF APPEAL TO TENTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS FILED BY DOCTOR ON 5/3/94.
03/04/1994:COURT ACTION - BY DECISION RENDERED ON 3/3/94 AND FILED ON 3/4/94, FRANKLIN COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS AFFIRMED BOARD S 3/10/93 INDEFINITE SUSPENSION ORDER. 4/11/94.
03/26/1993:COURT ACTION - NOTICE OF APPEAL TO FRANKLIN COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FILED BY DOCTOR ON OR ABOUT 3/26/93.
03/10/1993:BOARD ORDER - LICENSE INDEFINITELY SUSPENDED; CONDITIONS FOR REINSTATEMENT; SUBSEQUENT PROBATION FOR AT LEAST FIVE YEARS. ACCEPTABLE AND PREVAILING STANDARDS OF CARE BY REASON OF MENTAL ILLNESS. 3/12/93.
06/17/1992:CITATION - BASED ON ALLEGED INABILITY TO PRACTICE ACCORDING TO ACCEPTABLE AND PREVAILING STANDARDS OF CARE BY REASON OF MENTAL ILLNESS. NOTICE OF OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING MAILED 6/18/92.
06/17/1992:PRE-HEARING SUSPENSION - LICENSE SUMMARILY SUSPENDED EFFECTIVE 6/17/92 BASED ON BOARD S DETERMINATION THAT THERE IS CLEAR AND CONVINCING EVIDENCE THAT DOCTOR IS UNABLE TO PRACTICE ACCORDING TO ACCEPTABLE AND PREVAILING STANDARDS OF CARE BY REASON OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND THAT DOCTOR S CONTINUED PRACTICE PRESENTS A DANGER OF IMMEDIATE AND SERIOUS HARM TO THE PUBLIC.
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