Donald R Carter,MD, PC

two starz because he has poor communication skills and doesn’t seem to have much time to really get to the heart of the problems. If you have some weird, cronic problem like I did. Also, he can’t be bothered to answer any questions unless you make an appointment with him. Despite already having seen him 8 times in 12 months.

Last year I decided to finally get a problem w my nose resolved. I had trouble breathing; very little air flow through one nostril; and my nose is very runny. So runny, that while doing anything athletic or anything in the cold my nose chaps from the mucous. Around the bottom of my nose is constantly red. I arrive for my appointment and the office is just fine. The front desk staff is kind and courteous and I’ve never had to wait in the waiting room for more than a few minutes. Dr. Carter met w me and said I have a deviated septum and that he could fix it. He wasn’t really interested in hearing the symptoms that I wanted to resolve. I spent about ten minutes w him. Here is the ‘shame on me’ part, I went ahead and made an appointment to repair the deviated septum w out seeing someone else. I arrive for surgery and Dr. Carter is late. One employee says that is common, he is usually late but is really fast. Hmm. I get the surgery, all is fine, the septum is repaired but NONE of my symptoms clear up. In my follow up visits he prescribes different meds; antibiotics and steroids (which confused me since I didn’t have an infection) twice. We wonder why we have this antibiotic problem in our country… After 4 or so more visits and me complaining of the symptoms not being resolved (AND it’s the start of a new year so my $ 6000 deductible kicks back in) he says that my sinuses are enlarged and I need to have surgery. I just had surgery. When I ask questions he is very short not wanting to explain anything to me. «Well? That’s what you need» and turns to walk out after a one minute diagnosis (he had me get a $ 350 CT scan so it didn’t take long to diagnose). I stopped him to please explain and he seemed agitated that I was questioning the fact that I JUST HAD SURGERY and now he was saying to go back in because, in my opinion, he wasn’t thorough and didn’t fix my issues. Oh yes, and I don’t have the money to meet my $ 6000 deductible for sinus surgery since it’s a new year. Dr. Carter is a nice enough guy. I enjoyed our conversations about Octoberfest and running. But now I’ve spent thousands of dollars on a surgery that did nothing to improve my breathing or snotty nose and I’ve been told I need to go back in for a different surgery– that could have been done at the same time as my septum. No thanks. Farmers blow, anyone?