need OB/GYN

i am not a drive by poster. i just moved to park slope and it took a few days to get my computer set up. i appreciate any info/recommendations any of you ladies have for me. thanks! vanessa

i will go to the methodist hosptial on monday to check it out and get some info on doctors. thanks

Hey.. Glad you did come back and hope you stick around. Good luck finding a doctor and we will help you celebrate when the little one is born!!

you should also try finding doctors at LICH, which is the better hospital

or Maimonodeis.

not having much luck. i called the methodist hospital to go on a tour of the birthing center and they are booked till the end of october. my baby is due october 8. they gave me a phone number to call for a doctor and i was on hold for 15 minutes. eek!

if you have had a good experience with your ob/gyn please recommend him or her to me. thank you.

you need to forget methodist alltogether and call LICH, or beth israel or nyu medical center, both in manhattan.

brooklynpotter wrote: you need to forget methodist alltogether and call LICH, or beth israel or nyu medical center, both in manhattan.

I would stay as far away from LICH as humanly possible, for reasons i cannot and will not disclose here.

I will say that, if i was stabbed in the heart in right in front of LICH, had blood gushing out and minutes to live, I would call 911 and ask them to take me anywhere else.

I will also tell you that I have given birth at LICH. That is not related to why I am making this statement, but that was pretty awful too.

please stop telling me your horror stories. i would rather have some positive feedback. i would like to know of a good ob/gyn that works out of methodist hospital. thank you.

populuxe wrote: please stop telling me your horror stories. i would rather have some positive feedback. i would like to know of a good ob/gyn that works out of methodist hospital. thank you.

It doesn't appear anyone has a good experience at Methodist.

Maimonedes is pretty fantastic if you don't want to go to Manhattan. They are repositioning themselves as a Womens & Childrens hospital, and are doing a damn fine job.

VeggieQueen wrote: There are a lot of recommendations in here:

http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4865&highlight=gyn

The thread sited above is not so old. It will give you current advice. If you think you waited on hold to reach Methodist.. get in touch with the Park Slope Parents grp, as was suggested. It will take as much as a week to get approved to join that list!

Dr. Veca is great and she works out of Methodist. I see her for my annuals (and really like her a lot) and my friend just had her baby delivered by her. The hospital part of the experience was kind of crappy for her (they don't let the fathers stay over night and they were doing construction in that wing of the hospital), but she loves Dr. Veca.

hi i called dr. orna kolker but she only does gyn now. they recommended dr louis camilien to me. he is ob/gyn. has anyone been to him? how is he? thanks again. vanessa

I have been to him. He is the head of the department (I think). Our first interaction was really awful, but the second time it was much better and I liked him.

FWIW - I am pretty sure that the practice that I used was Dr. Kliot. My experience at Methodist is a little out dated, so I can't help you there.

has anyone been to park slope midwives? how are they? i called them and they were nice, said she would squeeze me in for an appt on thursday. please let me know if they are a good choice. thanks

i have heard excellent things about the park slope midwives, but i have never had a baby so i'm not the right person to ask

Let us know how the appointment works out. My question would be what physician do they work under because by defalt that is your OB.

I've heard good things about Jacqueline Bush, who works out of Methodist. I haven't used her personally, though.

I gave birth at Methodist in Nov 2005. I'll spare you the horror stories, and just give you the only happy part: My son and I are both healthy. I think the medical care we got was competent.

I feel I have to warn you about the nurses, though. There are some mean, mean women working there. It's nothing you can't survive, but be prepared.

p.s... I am so not a crabby native!!!

Subject: Best of luck!

Hope you will keep us all posted. This might be too personal… but if you don’t mind…, do you know if you are having a girl or a boy?

i sure will keep you all posted. thanks again.

populuxe wrote: has anyone been to park slope midwives? how are they? i called them and they were nice, said she would squeeze me in for an appt on thursday. please let me know if they are a good choice. thanks

Here's another idea: if you have decided on your pediatrician, you could ask him/her for an OB reference.