Sun Lake Family Practice

I can’t share much of my experience with this physician other than the office scheduled me for a 9:30 a.m. appointment and asked that I be there by 9:15 to complete the required paperwork. I arrived promptly at 9:15, completed my paperwork and proceeded to wait. And wait. And wait. And wait.
At 9:50 I asked when I would be seen for my 9:30 a.m. appointment and was told it would probably be an hour. As a professional I understand doctors are busy, but so am I. It is unreasonable to me to schedule an appointment for 9:30 just to wait for an hour to be seen. The whole reason we schedule appointments in life is so we can manage our time. Unfortunately I had a 10:30 a.m. telephone meeting and had to cancel my appointment.
This doctor could be the best in the world, I wouldn’t know, because I didn’t have the luxury of waiting for more than an hour past my scheduled appointment time to wait to see him.
I do know if your time is valuable, and if you don’t have the time to wait for an hour or more to be seen by a doctor, this physician probably isn’t the one for you.

Meet my doctor, Dr. Stephen Meyer from the Sun Lake Family Practice up in Lutz, Florida. Dr. Meyer used to be part of a larger medical group located on Linebaugh Avenue in the Carrollwood area, but he moved his practice up north last year to support a base of patients on the north side of Tampa, and I elected to drive the extra 15 – 20 minutes to stay as his patient.
Sun Lake is a part of the same medical family as the former Northwest Family Medical Center on Linebaugh, and so it was quite easy transferring my chart up to the new office.
Dr. Meyer is now located in the Sun Lake Professional Center which is north on Dale Mabry, past the northern end of the Veterans, past Calusa Trace, past Cheval… start watching for the cows on both sides of the road… and there he is on the left in a small professional office complex.
Dr. Meyer has been a family practitioner since 1989, and was an Army General Medical Officer in Desert Shield and Desert Storm before that. He is extremely knowledgeable, very personable, and really takes the time to get to know his patients. It’s not uncommon to spend an extra few minutes talking about a new exercise program that I can use while traveling, or discussing the medicinal benefits of various types of hot tea, or even the details on that really good restaurant that I discovered last weekend.
The mission statement in the examination rooms really says it all, «To provide the most compassionate and best quality care possible for each individual in order to enhance his or her quality of life. This includes not only physical care but also spiritual, mental, and educational support.» That really says it all for me, and it explains why I will continue to go out of my way to see Dr. Meyer.