Dr. Kanthi Kiran, MD

I get not wanting to work on a holiday but to take it out on your patients is terrible!! Imagine a doctor shoving things down your nose with nothing to numb it and restraining your hands while continuing to do it. While you're screaming. My nose was bleeding and my blood pressure was high. This woman snatched my hand and put her fingers over mines and squeezed both my fingers and nose hard, like she was using all of her strength to hurt me. And again after using some numbing jelly which didn't work, she and a nurse attempted to put what they called a bullet gauze in my nose hurt and I said no that extremely painful. I asked her does she do this to ask her patients and her reply was yes. I was shocked. After the first time she attempted to shove the thing down my nose, I wanted a transfer to another hospital, her response was they wouldn't take me because my nosebleed wasn't a emergency. I have been bleeding for 4 hours at that point. Be careful.

She was terrible. I had a rash over my entire body and she dismissed it as part of my lupus. She said there was no way she could discuss the situation with my rheumatologists - who I got on the phone in 2 minutes. The rheumatologist said there was no way the rash was lupus related and the meds I was on would have improved the rash if it was lupus. The rheum asked to speak to a nurse or doctor and both refused. She tested for basically nothing and I finally got ready to leave. She was rude and co