Dr. Nicolaus Hawbaker, MD

I've never had such a bad experience with a doctor in my life. He would not order the proper lab tests. He ignored symptoms, even though my life was in danger. I could have had a heart attack and he would not even have known it because he never bothered to do an examination and refused to do an ekg. He should BE FIRED! He never used a stethoscope, never listened to my heart, never did an exam. This doctor needs to come before a review board and have his license revoked! Someone could die because of this doctor.

Dr. Hawbaker treated me at the FMC ER on Aug. 2. I was suffering from hyponatramia. Though I told him I had nausea and was vomiting, had a headache - and though there was a record of a previous hyponatramia episode for which I was treated a few years earlier at FMC, he failed to order blood work (and apparently look at my patient record.) He discharged me with anxiety and a headache. I collapsed at home, lay unconscious for day, suffered a related stroke and was finally taken to FMC by EMT's.