Dr. Mary Ann Yeatts-Peterson

I was having so many issues when I found Dr Mary Ann less than a year ago. I just thought this was going to be my life from now on. I can’t believe how much she’s helped me and so much more knowledgeable and thorough than my last OB. No more pain, no more falling through the cracks with biopsies that should have happened with my last OB. Because of this biopsy, she advised me to take, she found I had an infection that had been going on for quite some time not to mention she found something else wrong that my primary care dr should have found! If I could give more than 5 stars I would! She’s amazing and I highly recommend!

I’ve suffered from pelvic pain for decades but never received a surgical diagnosis. Since pain is my only symptom, most drs ask questions like, is it sharp, dull, throbbing? She didn’t ask about pain. I tried to discuss it; she interrupted. I said I thought it’s endometriosis; she dismissed that immediately w/o giving a reason. She never mentioned a laparoscopy. When I asked about a pain prescription, she said she doesn't write prescriptions for "cramps," and wouldn't even discuss it. My theory is that she wrote me off as a drug seeker. I’m open to a non-narcotic treatment, if she bothered to ask, and willing to get a laparoscopy. I'm not a drug seeker; I'm a TREATMENT seeker. Drs have to willing to discuss pain b/c pain is a key medical symptom, and drs have to be willing to consider endo -- about 10% of women have it, so why is she so quick to dismiss it? She's so nervous about talking about pain, and so quick to write her patients off, that she isn't fit to be a doctor.

I have suffered from chronic pelvic pain for most of my life, and between doctors ignoring my symptoms and lack of affordable medical care, it's mostly been untreated. I have had intermittent access to doctors but never received a surgical diagnosis of my problem. I went to Dr. Yeatts-Peterson hoping for a new start and instead was brushed off to a degree I was not expecting. She refused to talk to me in any way about the pain I'm experiencing. Given that pain is basically my only symptom, it seems reasonable that a doctor would want to ask about it, and in fact, that's what other doctors have done -- asked questions like, is it more sharp or more dull? More throbbing or more aching? On just one side, or on both sides? Questions like that. Those would, I'd assume, help a doctor pin down what might be going on. But this doctor? Not a single question. I tried to raise the issue of my pain and she interrupted me to talk about breast cancer - -which she herself is a survivor of, making breast cancer basically her sole concern for her patients. When I said I thought I might have endometriosis, she said, "it could be a lot of things," and basically wouldn't let me get in a word edgewise to say that the reason I thought that it was endometriosis was that other doctors have said that it probably was endometriosis -- I didn't just look it up on WebMD, for heaven's sake. She never mentioned scheduling a laparoscopy to try to get to the root of the issue, or any other test of that nature. Just did a quick ultrasound and basically told me to leave. When I asked about a possible prescription for the pain, she actually crossed her arms over her chest, said she doesn't write prescriptions for "menstrual cramps," and left the room. I don't have menstrual cramps, I have chronic pelvic pain, but whatever -- she wouldn't even discuss it with me, just claimed to have a policy and that's that. She seemed to roll her eyes when I burst into tears at her brusqueness. She never even seemed to take into account that patients might feel a bit vulnerable and emotional after having a stranger fondle their nipples and stick a device up their vagina -- that this might, I don't know, throw them off or make them a little less able to advocate for themselves clearly, and that maybe she might need to cut them a little slack. My theory on her brusque behavior is that because I don't want to go on the Pill -- I hate being on the Pill, it causes innumerable side effects for me that are basically just as bad as the pain -- and because I referenced having used prescription narcotics to manage the pain in the past (I took the responsibility very seriously, and my pain rises to the level of anguish so it really is justified), she wrote me off as a narcotics seeker. Perhaps she wrote my tears off as well, seeing them not as the frustrated, frightened tears of a person suffering intolerable pain but as a manipulation attempt from a drug seeker. But the thing is, I would have been open to a non-narcotic solution if she had an idea for one. She just wouldn't even discuss options with me -- I don't know, physical therapy? Acupuncture? I don't know, man, there have to be options other than narcotics and the Pill. I'm not a "drug" seeker; I'm a RELIEF seeker. I'm a TREATMENT seeker. I'd also love to find a bit of compassion and empathy. In the end, I think her inability to listen to and believe her patients makes her a liability in her field. Doctors have to be willing to listen to their patients; from what other source can they expect to learn what their patients are suffering from? Doctors have to willing to discuss pain because pain is a key medical symptom, and in my case, is basically my only symptom. Doctors have to be willing to consider endometriosis as a diagnosis -- about 1 in 10 women have it, so why is she so quick to dismiss it is a possibility? She's so nervous about talking about pain, and so quick to assume that her patient is a drug seeker, and so quic

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Great personality! Will definitely keep her as my docor!

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