Return-Path: Received: from IUS5.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU by K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa03911; 31 Oct 95 16:49:16 EST Received: from IUS5.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU by IUS5.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU id aa10052; 31 Oct 95 16:48:59 EST To: bovik@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Gynecologist recommendations Date: Tue, 31 Oct 95 16:48:56 EST From: Jennifer_Kay@IUS5.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU Dr. Bovik, here are the replies to my request for info on gynecologists. -- Jennie ------- Forwarded Messages From: Phoebe Sengers Subject: Re: Gynecologist Recommendations Wanted To: Jennifer Kay Date: Thu, 26 Oct 95 9:57:05 EDT Sender: phoebe@GS80.SP.CS.CMU.EDU Hi Jennie, I am very happy with my doctor, Margaret Morton in Greenfield. She is not a gynecologist but a general practicioner but she still does all that fun gynecological stuff. She is nice, funny, laid-back, easy to talk to, and competent. She is also covered by UHN health insurance. - - Phoebe ---------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 95 10:12:38 -0400 Sender: mbayouth@J6.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU From: Michelle Bayouth Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University To: jennie+@IUS5.IUS.cs.cmu.edu Subject: Re: Gynecologist Recommendations Wanted Jennie, I've heard excellent reports about Dr. Carol Simmons (McGee Hospital). I've not been to her yet, but am scheduled for an appointment on Nov. 2 and will let you know what I think once I've met her myself. I have heard of other excellent GYNs, but they're IMPOSSIBLE to get in to see. Dr. Chris Tyndall and Dr. __ Rutman are both supposed to fantastic, but my luck with getting in has been nil. When I called Dr. Rutman's office (about a month ago) the next available appointment was for the end of May, 1996. :( Happy hunting! Michelle P.S. I don't know how bad the physicians are at student health here, but I had a MISERABLE time with them at UT. They were nothing short of sadistic. ---------------------------- To: jennie@cs.cmu.edu cc: stankus@STANKUS.ADM.CS.CMU.EDU Subject: Robert Thompson Date: Thu, 26 Oct 95 11:13:43 -0400 Message From: Terri_Stankus@STANKUS.ADM.CS.CMU.EDU Jennie, Dr. Thompson has been my dr for 16 years. He delivered both of my children and actually saw to it that I got pregnant when I wanted to. Oh, that sounds bad. I had problems getting pregnant. I have no complaints. He's very professional. The people who work in the or with him at magee always have good things to say about him. His office is in Oakland. The number is 683-5200. I have a few friends who are drs. and they know of my doctor and they like his ideals and ethics. As do I. Terri ---------------------------- From: Robert Frederking Date: Thu, 26 Oct 95 11:17:09 EDT To: Jennifer Kay In-reply-to: jennie+@IUS5.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU's message of 26 Oct 1995 13:47:08 GMT Subject: Gynecologist Recommendations Wanted Reply-to: Robert Frederking My ex-partner used Margaret Morton as her regular doctor, including exams, and was happy with her. Morton's partner, Donna Knupp, is used by a number of friends whos eem happy with her. Their practice is at the end of Murray Avenue in Greenfield. Bob ---------------------------- I've used the Nurse/Practitioner (Sue?) and Kaminiski & Sterns and found that satisfactory altho the price was no cheaper for the N/P. DO NOT USE Weigel of Moss, Weigel & Shaeffer. He has a charming manner, but almost killed my girlfriend and almost damaged my son during childbirth. A total asshole when it comes to an emergency. ---------------------------- From: Kenneth Cline Subject: Re: Gynecologist Recommendations Wanted To: Jennifer Kay Date: Thu, 26 Oct 95 12:01:28 EDT Sender: cline@SILVER.FOX.CS.CMU.EDU In article <46o3gs$mvi@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu>, you write: |> I've sworn off student health, and I'm due for an annual gynecological |> exam. Bovik's recommendations are a bit out of date. Let me know who |> you (or your partner) uses and if you (they) are happy with them. |> |> *** (Since the percentage of the people who read this bboard who are |> women is probably fairly low, I'd appreciate those of you with female |> partners to ask them and get back to me!) *** My wife goes to birthplace, which is run by West Penn Hospital. They offer gynecological services (and midwifery) in a very comfortable setting - at least from what I have seen of it :-). Ken ---------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 12:24:39 -0400 From: Herman Schmit Message To: jennie+@IUS5.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU (Jennifer Kay) Subject: Re: Gynecologist Recommendations Wanted Newsgroups: cmu.cs.general My wife goes to Dr. Ellen Stewart, who has an office in Oakland. She's been quite happy with Dr. Stewart. Since she's pregnant, my wife and I have also had to meet the other OBGYN doctors in the practice. Who's ever on call will deliver our baby. Dr. Frondutti and Dr. Katz (both men,if that makes a difference) are also very pleasant. In fact, in my honest and male opinion, both men were less busy and more patient and sensitive than Dr. Stewart. Herman ---------------------------- From: Amy Moormann Zaremski Date: Thu, 26 Oct 95 13:39:41 EDT To: Jennifer Kay In-reply-to: jennie+@IUS5.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU's message of 26 Oct 1995 13:47:08 GMT Subject: Gynecologist Recommendations Wanted Jennie, Dunno what your health insurance constraints are. I _really_ liked Lorraine Bevilaqua (621-7575, office in Oakland); I think there's a message to Bovik with more details (several years old). A while back, I had to switch because she's not Health America. John Fisch is also good, but his main office is in Monroeville (372-0645). - -Amy ---------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 13:59:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Barbara DiEugenio To: jennie+@IUS5.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU (Jennifer Kay) Subject: Re: Gynecologist Recommendations Wanted In-Reply-To: <46o3gs$mvi@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu> References: <46o3gs$mvi@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu> Hi, I'm a lecturer in Computational Linguistics (philosophy). My gynecologist is dr. Filipek, with Oakland Gyn, 3380 Boul of the Alleys, 621 7575. I went there because he and other two doctors in that practice had been recommended to me by Martha Pollack (Pitt CS faculty). I actually would have preferred one of the other two, a Dr. Bevilacqua and another whose name I don't remember, because they're both women. but I had an urgent condition, and the two of them were too busy. I liked Dr. Filipek very much, he's friendly and did his best to explain things to me. I remember Martha also mentioning somebody she didn't like, if you want I think I have the full references at home, I can dig them out. best, Barbara Di eugenio ---------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 14:39-EDT From: Angela.Kennedy@J.GP.CS.CMU.EDU To: Jennifer Kay Subject: Re: Gynecologist Recommendations Wanted In-Reply-To: Jennifer Kay's bboard message of 26-Oct-95 09:53 Try Chistine Tyndall with Moss-Weigel Associates on S. Aiken. Hope it helps, Angela ---------------------------- From: R Hugo Patterson Subject: Re: Gynecologist Recommendations Wanted To: Jennifer Kay Date: Thu, 26 Oct 95 15:01:42 EDT Sender: rhp@TIPS1.DSSC.CS.CMU.EDU My wife changed to Stern & Kaminsky recently on the reccommendation of friends. She left Renata Hoca, who my wife had liked, when Hoca missed a problem she probably shouldn't have. - -- Hugo ---------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 15:34:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Ricky.Houghton@cs.cmu.edu To: jennie+@IUS5.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU (Jennifer Kay) Subject: Re: Gynecologist Recommendations Wanted In-Reply-To: <46o3gs$mvi@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu> References: <46o3gs$mvi@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu> My wife uses Dr Gray at West Penn. Her associate, whose names escapes me, delivered our baby a month ago. Both doctors were great during the pregnancy, very personal. They also have a great staff. All people there are female, which would be important, if I were female. Ricky ---------------------------- To: jennie+@IUS5.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU (Jennifer Kay) Subject: Re: Gynecologist Recommendations Wanted Date: Thu, 26 Oct 95 15:52:35 EDT From: Grace Downey I use Dr. Michael Fakovec of Smithfield Medical Associates. The number is 471-2111. He's my GP but he also does annual gynecological exams, and his office staff has always been good about handling records and appointments and stuff. For future reference is also a Keystone and HealthAmerica primary care physician. ---------------------------- From: Susan E Holm Subject: Re: Gynecologist Recommendations Wanted To: Jennifer Kay Date: Thu, 26 Oct 95 16:42:37 EDT Sender: sholm@BERLIN.MT.CS.CMU.EDU If you have HealthAmerica, you can use your primary care provider or their gynos. I go to Dr. Diegel at the Sterling Medical Center (in Oakland) and I like her alot. I use her for my annual exam including PAP, etc. I also discovered that the BirthPlace in Shadyside- a freestanding birthing center affiliated with West Penn Hospital (and also covered by HealthAmerica, by the way) - gives well-women care. The place is very child-friendly, so those women with children might like it there. They have midwives, whom I've often had good experience with in general, although I haven't been to these particular midwives. Well, those are my $0.02. Good luck! sue. ---------------------------- i've gone to a clinic in east liberty called Allegehney Women's Health center. I think that they are exellent because: 1) it isn't a hassle to get a female doctor (i think the're all female) 2) they are very good about answering questions and check to see if you have any questions and seem sincerely interested in ensuring that you know what's going on and agree with the doctor's actions 3) they also ensure that you have the info you need to make any decisions that need to be made and let you make them. I couln't imagine anyone there taking a condesending tone with a patient there. this is unlike at many doctor's offices including health services where I've had situations where a doctor will basically dismiss birth control questions with answers like ... "oh you're so young, you should be on the pill, here's the persription" (after i explicitly said that i didn't want the pill) or "you can't really be in a serious long term relationship, so you should use condoms [i.e. i'm going to ignore your requests for a diaphram since that might encourage you to forgo the condoms]" btw.... the clinic does do abortions so i guess it could be possible that patients going for a checkup on the wrong day could get harrassed. I haven't heard of demonstrations there but i'd hate to get hrrassed or even shot for a pap smear. ---------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 95 07:42:27 EDT From: Jennifer L Pittman Message-Id: <9510271142.AA26375@student.stat.psu.edu> To: jennie+@IUS5.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU Subject: gynecologist rec Cc: pittman@stat.psu.edu Jennie, I'm a native of Pgh and only moved to State College this past August. I know of a highly recommended gynecologist at St. Francis Medical Center. His name is Gary Bergman - he's listed in the white pages. I don't know how busy he is but it's worth a call. I've been seeing him for a few years and have had no trouble. Jennifer Pittman Department of Statistics Penn State University (814)231-3941 ---------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 09:22-EDT From: Ellen.Douglas@LADON.RESDOC.CS.CMU.EDU To: Jennifer Kay Subject: Re: Gynecologist Recommendations Wanted Message-Id: <814800155/epd@LADON.RESDOC.CS.CMU.EDU> In-Reply-To: Jennifer Kay's bboard message of 26-Oct-95 09:53 Hi, Don't know if you have access to Health America or not, but Dr. Louise Brown in the Sterling Plaza (Oakland) office is good--courteous, professional, personable. Ellen ---------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 95 10:15:04 -0400 (EDT) From: James.Daniel.Morrow@cs.cmu.edu To: Jennifer.Kay@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Re: Gynecologist Recommendations Wanted Cc: In-Reply-To: <46o3gs$mvi@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu> References: <46o3gs$mvi@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu> Hi Jennie, My wife seems happy with Oakland OB/GYN on Blvd of the Allies right across from Magee. The practice is composed of mostly women doctors, including Hazel, Bevilacla(?), Hoca (+ a couple of others). Carson, who is a man, is also in the group. They have evening hours and are affiliated with UHN. -- Dan ---------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 10:51:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Barbara DiEugenio To: Jennifer_Kay@IUS5.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU Subject: Re: Gynecologist Recommendations Wanted In-Reply-To: References: Hi, so these were Martha Pollack's recommendations (for Oakland Ob/ Gyn, I sent you address and phone # in a previous message). (I guess the assumption is that they're all equally competent.) Doctors she liked: Renata Hoca / Lorraine Bevilacqua / Steele Filipek. She didn't like: Don Carson (I think she said he had no bedside manners, he may have delivered her son); Dr. Hrvos (or Mrvos?): good but old. As mentioned, my gyn is Dr Filipek, and I liked him a lot. As I was worried for something potentially serious, he explained everything to me, the exams etc, he recommended a lab that was convenient and I also quite liked the people there; and then followed up with me when I got the (good) result from the lab. Barbara ---------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 95 13:12:21 EDT From: Margaret Reid-Miller To: Jennifer Kay In-reply-to: jennie+@IUS5.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU's message of 26 Oct 1995 13:47:08 GMT Subject: Gynecologist Recommendations Wanted References: <46o3gs$mvi@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu> Hi Jennie, I go to Chris Tyndall at the following group: Chris S. Tyndall (OB/GYN)* Walter L. Shaffer John E. Weigel Jr. Shadyside Place 580 Aiken Ave. Suite 420 Pittsburgh, PA 15232 Work: (412) 681-7388 I like Chris a lot. There is another woman there whom I like too, assuming she is still there. I don't like Shaffer much (he delivered David and threatened repeatedly the possible need to induce early). Wiegel is also a nice, sensible person (he delivered Keith). - --Margaret ---------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 17:16:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Marcella Zaragoza To: jennie+@IUS5.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU (Jennifer Kay) Subject: Re: Gynecologist Recommendations Wanted Cc: In-Reply-To: <46o3gs$mvi@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu> References: <46o3gs$mvi@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu> Jennie, Maybe too out of the way for you (Sewickley), but my doctor is great! Dr. Susan Floyd. I understand, however, it's now pretty hard to get an appointment with her, but if you can get in with another doctor there, you would probably be happy with them also. The office is Moraca, Wharton and Floyd Assoc. (there's another new doctor there too, but I forget his/her name). Their number is 741-6530. Years ago, probably 1989 was the last time, I used to see a doctor in Magee who I really liked also, Dr. Charles Kremser. I cried when I couldn't go to him anymore -- because I changed insurance -- but luckily I hooked up with Dr. Floyd. I don't know his number, but I'm sure he's in the book. His office is on the Blvd. of the Allies side of Magee, through a separate entrance with separate parking on that side of the building. It's really convenient. Let me know if you want to talk more about either of these two. Good luck with your search! Marce ---------------------------- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 95 10:22:20 0000 From: Michael Reed Organization: ECE Dept., Carnegie-Mellon University X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; 68K) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jennie@cs.cmu.edu Subject: gynecologist X-URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/Web/People/jennie/ Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Every woman I have ever met in Pittsburgh goes to Kaminsky and Stern. Including my wife. ---------------------------- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 12:42:50 -0500 From: "Dennis J. Ciplickas" Message-Id: <199510311742.MAA12554@mr2.ece.cmu.edu> To: Jennifer_Kay@IUS5.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU In-reply-to: <199510261855.OAA19962@mr2.ece.cmu.edu> (Jennifer_Kay@IUS5.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU) Subject: Re: Student Health: Opinions wanted > If you could I'd really appreciate your finding out the name of the > gynecologist that your wife likes so I could send it to bovik! Jennie, I asked her and she couldn't spell it, but her doctor's name at McGee was pronounced like "SOF-ruh-noff." Maybe you could call them direct and get the correct spelling. - -Dennis ------- End of Forwarded Messages