Scarborough Health Care

It’s taken me a month to be able to put the words together. I’ve been a patient here for awhile and when I became pregnant in February I was so excited to follow with them as their plan to follow pregnancy seemed more extensive than others I had seen. Very early on in my pregnancy (6-7weeks about) I had a blood pressure issue and allergy to a med they had put me on that I ended up in the ER. Dr Shinners office called me right away and got me scheduled to come in and check on me (this was my best experience, as she was not even my doctor just the doctor on call) fast forward to a few weeks later after having genetic testing finding out everything had come back normal and we were having a boy. 2 weeks after that I started spotting. I called the office right away they got me in and confirmed I was starting to miscarry. I don’t remember the doctors name she was very young. Told me I would not even realize I was having a miscarriage and that it would be like a heavy period. We decided to do a D&C when my husband asked why it couldn’t be done that day she said well it’s the end of the day everybody is getting ready to go home. I ended up passing my baby early the next morning, it was in fact NOTHING like a heavy period the sac came out and I could see my baby in it…. Head and little body…. Not large but very visibly a baby. I went in a week later where I saw “my doctor” (which at this point I had seen once for a meet and great and all my other appointments had been with other physicians) Dr. Brooker came in the room she was fine as we talked to her, I wouldn’t say anything special but not horrible. I was visibly upset my husband had to ask if there were any resources for us where she said oh yea let me get that print out. She came back in the room handed it to us…. Turns around to leave and says “alright well call us again when you need us”, which after someone miscarries kinda seems like an odd thing to say. We left feeling as though it was not the “experience” we had expected. I work in the medical field. I understand these conversations are hard and discussing anything but happy news is difficult. I have never witnessed any of my physicians brush a patient off like she did. I understand that this is something she probably sees everyday so to her it’s normal. To me it wasn’t and a little more compassion and something other than “call us when you need us again” would have really been appreciated.