Dr. Thomas Scaletta, MD

Healthcare providers should be intelligent, good listeners, personable, and empathetic to their patients needs. Dr. Thomas is mediocre at best. My sister came into the ER last night with excruciating pain and after running several tests and analyzing results it was determined that she had a life-threatening ovarian cyst on the verge of bursting that required emergency surgery. Dr.Thomas printed off a informational page and gave it to us, his best suggestion was for her to go home with prescribed narcotics because according to him "there was nothing he could do". Luckily for us, another doctor stepped in and pointed out that if she were to go home tonight in her condition then she could die (An obvious suggestion in my opinion). We were transferred to another hospital where well-trained surgeons took care of my sister. If it wasn't for the second doctor stepping in we would've had no other choice but to go home and I might've lost my sister last night. Inadequate doctor.

Never in my life, have I ever been feared of going to an Emergency Room. I fear Edwards Emergency director Dr Scarlett a. This man has made my life miserable! I live in fear to even go there! What happened to the Hippocratic Oath he took. To fear your hospital from one man is A crime. The bad news is, if call 911, that is where they take me. And he does nothing at all to help me. We even set up a protocol of how to manage my disease that he provided and I followed through 100 percent! Bottom line 28 years is to long! Changes must be made. He is old school, and should not be in the health care program period. He has ruined my life. I am writing this with truth! I don’t want to see anyone suffer, what I have been through! Run from this man. He is bad news ! Sad, sad day to fear your emergency room when you are asking for help.

He is a doctor with a lot of experience, but not a lick of concern for the patients who depend on him to make life or death decisions in the ER. He has a temper, is easily agitated, and is more concerned with saving money for the hospital than he is about making sure that a patient is treated appropriately, especially if they are in pain and he thinks that they are only trying to get access to narcotics. His staff follows his lead.