Dear Baby,
We told your grandmas and grandpas, and your aunts and uncles of your arrival. Of course there was shock of the news and concern of us being such a new family, and then there came excitement. Your dad and I know that everything will be okay, and that we will always find a way to support you. Your mom now needs to find a doctor to help us through the pregnancy to make sure that you come out healthy and perfect. I am so excited for this blessing of having you in our lives. We promise to do everything we can to make you happy and show you our love…
Love, mommy
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Hey. This is Kirstin (Kevin Perry's sister). I just wanted to say congrats and recommend a doc for you. The office of Dr Rees, Gammett, Thorpe, and a few others is awesome. Dr. Rees delivered my last baby and he was awesome. Thorpe is good too, he delivered another of mine. Gammett and the other one are older guys, who frankly I just didn't click with. :-) their # is 801-374-1801 and they are right by the hospital there in Provo. Good luck and congrats.
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I hate you for making me cry.
We had a terrible experience with Doctor Gammett today at the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center Birthing Center. We went into the hospital this morning at 5am excited to be having our 4th baby and looking forward to a miraculous culmination of a long and difficult pregnancy. Having done this 3 times before, we were sure we were off to the races with strong, painful, and consistent contractions. However, after about 2 hours at the hospital the contractions died. We told our nurse that we wanted to get induced at that point (theres lots of justification for that request below)... which led to the exchange with Dr Gammett that left us shocked, baffled, and with an opinion of Dr Gammett as a rude, angry, and pompous person, and as an uncaring, unprofessional, and unethical doctor. Bottom-line: he literally stood up, yelled at his patient, and stormed out of the delivery room upset that we were making a case different from his own. His last words that he yelled at my wife as he stormed out of the room were "I will induce you IF YOU INSIST on being induced, but I don't appreciate this punitive line of questioning." I was aghast.
Apparently, the "process/procedure/system" is that you can schedule an appointment to be induced, but cannot be induced "on the fly" for any reason except a risk to the baby. My beef with Gammett is that he didn't care about our perspective, took offense to our arguing the merits of the policy, and unprofessionally stormed out of the room while yelling at my wife. What did we do? We left, of course. The event completely spoiled and soured. I have vowed to make my case online to other potential "customers" so that they can get another perspective on this doctor. My objective is to steer you clear of both he and his practice.
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His argument was that because he and the hospital were both "short staffed" they could only take natural labor deliveries and scheduled C-sections/inducements.
We argued that because 1) we were already there taking a room, 2)the hospital rooms were not full, 3) the hospital did not look understaffed (15 nurses standing around in the station at 11am), 4) Dr. Thorpe had said on Wednesday that we could schedule either Thursday or Friday (see details below), and 5) because of the special circumstances of my wifes pregnancy(see below), that they should make an exception to the policy and go ahead and induce us. We had family from SLC with the kids, I had taken off of work, my wifes mother had taken off of work, and we had help for the kids lined up for the weekend. We were completely prepared and felt fine with doing the induction following a check in at the hospital based upon legitimate labor.
Apparently someone making a case against his own position is not something Dr. Gammett is used to. We obviously struck a nerve... and he has lost all bedside credibility and I recommend that you do NOT engage Doctor Gammett or the Provo OBGYN clinic.
I'm sorry that happened with Dr. Gammett but my husband and I both LOVE him and his practice. We have had a lot of complications thus far and have now been seen on MULTIPLE occasions and feel nothing but loved there. It is a wonderful practice and we think Dr. Gammett is the BEST. He is just like my grandpa and we adore him. I am sorry that you had this problem though, I can understand how that would be difficult and frustrating. Unfortunately we will continue with them because they are wonderful! There is bound to be bad reviews from everything in life at one point in time and yours is the FIRST we have heard of bad news. There is nothing but great news about them. You ask anyone and they all love that practice!
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