Finding a Doctor!!!

From the time of me moving back home to Mount Airy, and getting a job with Forsyth County Emergency Services I decided to do something and find a doctor to move forward with it.

I researched the local doctors and found a doctor in Winston Salem that was very popular.  I will not mention his name or hospital he is affiliated with because I do not believe my decision process is right for everyone, but he ended up not being the right doctor for me.  The reason being is as follows; I went to the seminar and all he talked about was the money the operation cost (and to most of us it did not matter because we had insurance), I got the impression that he was really trying to impress is with how much money his practice made, and how beneficial he was to the hospital he worked for.  After the seminar, I went to a couple of follow up appointments and was not impressed at all.  Most of the time I had to go to the doctor's office, wait for hours just to see the doctor for maybe 3 minutes.  He always seemed rushed, and when I had questions he recommended that I check out his website because most questions were answered there, so I ended up not being very happy; and in the end I had dropped a lot of money with this doctor with all the test that he required and visits, so when I made the decision not to move forward with him, it set me back and it was a blow to my drive so I quit searching and looking.

Well, as I said in a previous post I was soon offered a job back with The EI GROUP in Charlotte, NC.  I took the job and moved back to the area.  As soon as I started this company in April of 2013 I quickly started researching my insurance company, even before I received an insurance card.  I quickly found that my insurance company covered the operation, and I quickly found a doctor.  I used a very sophisticated search method for finding my doctor, i.e. Google, ahhahahaah.  I took a gamble by going with the top search result and hoped for the best.

The Doctor I found was Dr. Jon Pirrello out of the Novant Health-Presbyterian Matthews Hospital in Matthews, North Carolina.

Here is a link to his website:

Dr Jon Pirrello's Office

Continue on to the next blog to hear about the pre op journey I went through!!!