Susan Senner23 days agoFrom
I think Dr Bayles has a wonderful bedside manner. He is humble, smart, empathetic, looks you in the eye, and allows your feedback in the treatment options .
John Ward23 days agoFrom
Can't say that I can identify with the bad reviews. My experience during the past two years has been very good. He listens and explains what is happening and why, then he lays out options. That's pretty much what I want from a doctor, so he gets my two thumbs up.
Orton Howdy23 days agoFrom
Robert Bayles isn't a bad doctor. He just isn't a good one. Trying to find a doctor can be unbelievably difficult. How do you interview a doctor to find someone compatible? How do you find a doctor who actually remembers your name and cares? I found Bayles more than 10 years ago and because he was the devil I knew as opposed to the devil I didn't, I kept him. But over the years the problems kept adding up. He's not a good listener and has zilch for "bedside manner." When he comes in to see you, and he's always late, he might as well place an hourglass down and let the sands start flowing because it's pretty clear Bayles is an assembly-line doctor. He's very efficient at moving patients along. You are a mechanical problem and having turned the bolts on you, you are passed along to someone else in a "process." He also has a genius for prescribing medication that later is thought to be dangerous. Vioxx was a big one he pushed. Lipitor and the whole statin family was another, even when I was having stabbing pains from it. Every specialist he recommended turned out to be a waste of time and money, and some of them were a real piece of work. Fortunately, several years ago my insurance changed and I no longer needed a referral which I immediately put into effect by finding my own specialists, with a success rate that right off the bat was a 100% improvement. Eventually I came to a place where I thought that I really couldn't do any worse and I let him go. This is what I would recommend to anyone: don't be afraid to fire your doctor. There are good doctors out there, people who really do listen and care, and you're not going to find them by staying with an assembly line doctor who has long since forgotten why he wanted to go into medicine.
