Dr. Bryan McEachern says he is a caring pediatrician when you first meet him, however he is a cocky, self-serving, arrogant, unprofessional, and unethical doctor. My 4 month-old son has a significant health history, and on 04/16/02, I called Dr. McEachern's service and explained that I needed to talk to him regarding concerns that my son was having breathing problems. He called back and after explaining the symptoms to him, and telling him I thought my son was in repiratory distress his exact response was "Well, what do you want me to do, I guess he needs to see a doctor." I said to him "I thought you were a doctor" and "you are fired".
I promptly took my son to the ER where he was airlifted to a hospital that could handel his critical condition. After a few days in the hospital, my son was being discharged, but needed to see a doctor for follow up the next day. Of course I would not be putting my son's life at risk again seeing Dr. McEachern, so we made arrangements for another doctor. I faxed Dr. McEachern a record release form the day before discharge, and the attending physcian even called his office to make sure the records would be forwarded to the new doctor asap, so she would have accurate information about my son's ongoing conditions. We were told by his office staff that there would be no problem.
Upon getting to the new doctors office, we were confronted with a fax from Dr. McEacherns staff, stating that the records would not be forwarded because of an outstanding balance on our account. THIS IS A TOTAL LIE!!! There is and was no balance on our account, it is a ploy by Dr. McEachern to "GET BACK AT US" for firing him.
Withholding medical records of a sick infant for ANY REASON, is both unethical according to the AMA and illegal according to state and federal law. My son can not to this day get the proper medical care because of the information Dr. McEachern is withholding for no reason! I have reported him to the AMA and The Department of Health Professions for his unethical and illegal accts.
It is my opinion that NO ONE should trust in this doctors medical care if he can't even follow the first line of the oath he took "FIRST DO NO HARM"
Eileen
Manassas, Virginia
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