I selected this physician for my pregnancy shortly after moving to Huntsville based on high online reviews and could not be more disappointed.
I generally felt I was not respected, nor were my time or concerns. Here are some of the things I found unsatisfactory:
-I rarely saw this physician within an hour of my appointment time and often left the office two or three hours after my scheduled appointment time. For every hour of waiting in the office, I saw Dr. Reidy for approximately three minutes.
-My questions were addressed by the nurses and any questions they passed along to Dr. Reidy were often lost in transit. Sometimes I later found the answers I had given by the nurses was incorrect.
-When I did interact with the physician, she seemed distracted, uninterested, and impersonal. I often times questioned why she was an OBGYN because she didn't seem to enjoy her job.
-Some appointments felt pointless, unnecessary, and a waste of time and money. During my last month of pregnancy, I attended weekly visits waiting two or more hours for the doctor to check my cervix and send me on my way. I had to pry out information regarding my dilation, effacement, and station or I would be told nothing.
-Parking at the office is a disaster.
-Billing is a nightmare--the office calculates the amount your insurance will not cover for scheduled appointments and delivery, and then expects you to pay this amount upfront. When I came for my first appointment at eight weeks, I was told I needed to pay $400 or I could not see the physician. I had never met her. By the time I had my third appointment and decided I did not think we were a good match, I had already paid her $1200. In addition to pre-paying for delivery and appointment fees, you have to pay for each ultrasound separately. An appointment where I did not make a payment over $100 was a rarity.
-Dr. Reidy referred me to a high risk OBGYN, for reasons unknown to me. When I attended the appointment with the high risk OBGYN (after worrying about it for several weeks,) I was told I was in no way a high risk patient and I should not have been referred to a high risk OBGYN. That unnecessary appointment costed me an additional $300.
-Lastly--I specifically chose Dr. Reidy and Tennessee Valley OBGYN, because I felt uncomfortable having a male OBGYN for any part of my pregnancy. I later found out that if I was in labor outside of business hours, Dr. Reidy would likely be unavailable, but I was reassured that one of the physicians from her (all female) practice would be on-call. Naturally I went into labor during the weekend. The on-call physician from her practice broke my water without telling me she was doing so, making me wish she hadn't been there at all. Dr. Reidy came to check on me later that morning, but left because she had a family function and phoned in instructions to the nurses. I ended up having a male hospitalist deliver my son, which was the icing on top of the cake.
I wanted a natural birth and ended up with just about everything but a c-section, which I would be comfortable with if I believed those measures were necessary, but I don't believe they were. I lack the confidence that my physician was making the correct calls and I believe that lack of trust is something that started in her office from the very beginning of our patient-doctor relationship. Maybe the two of us just weren't a good fit, but I wouldn't recommend Dr. Reidy to anyone I cared about.