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CB Medical Negligence and Deficiency Review of Dr. Joseph Ardolf
Dr. Joseph Ardolf

Dr. Joseph Ardolf review: Health care

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This doctor would act as though he was treating my infection during office visits but when I looked in my medical records later on it said something about how he had told me it is probably anxiety. I think he misled me to believe that he was treating my infection, giving me injections of an antibiotic from December through June in too low a dose to make my symptoms disappear. I later found out the drug is to be given in a 1g dose every 24 hours until the symptoms have completely disappeared. He was aware that my symptoms were not going away completely and were coming back yet I think he kept giving me injections incorrectly.

Update by misledp
Sep 13, 2016 4:02 pm EDT

I went to Health East Clinic in Maplewood, MN and they found me negative for Gonorrhea in a urine test when I was actually positive. Urine tests are less reliable. Source: http://www.std-gov.org/stds/chlamydia.htm I was found positive elsewhere.
Dr. Ardolf told me I have a pelvic mass after he ordered an ultrasound so I went to Health Partners and saw Dr. Harms. Chlamydia and Gonorrhea are the most common pathogens that are found to cause PID. Source: http://www2a.cdc.gov/stdtraining/ready-to-use/pid.htm (go to pid-notes-2014) Co-infection is typical with these two bacteria. I find it suspicious how Dr. Harms found me positive for Chlamydia but he and other doctors still did not consider PID as the cause of the mass, since PID can cause a mass that would show up in an ultrasound. I believe that Dr. Harms at Health Partners lied that I have a tumor when it was actually something caused by a PID infection. At one visit he admitted to me that he could not tell if it was a tumor or an infection until surgery. Dr. Harms found me positive for Chlamydia and he treated me with just two Azithromax. At a later appointment I asked him about being treated for PID. I think he misled me by telling me he would treat the tumor as an infection by giving me metronidazole and doxycycline at this appointment, the incorrect medicine for treating PID with an abscess. PID with an abscess should be treated with an IV in a hospital. (http://www.cdc.gov/std/tg2015/pid.htm) He knew of my concern that the tumor was an infection and that I asked him for treatment yet he gave me the wrong treatment. He also left out ceftriaxone from the treatment. I had to ask later on the phone and his nurse strongly discouraged me so I did not even receive ceftriaxone with the metronidazole and doxycycline (the treatment plan for a less severe form of PID than PID with an abscess). During a visit he changed his original story by telling me that an MRI could tell if it was a tumor or an infection. He and other doctors I have seen also tried to distract me from asking intelligent questions during our visits by bothering me about my mental health. I believe that the clinics and hospitals that I have been going to have been trying to avoid treating my infection so that surgeries can be done on me or to cover up their past misdiagnoses. I heard that hospitals need people for residents to practice on for surgery. They have also cheated me by misleading me to believe that they would do special tests for gonorrhea and chlamydia when they actually had not done them. I believe that the Gonorrhea or Chlamydia caused a lump in my neck as well as the pelvic mass. Dr. Harms made me feel as though he would have Regions test my neck for infection and he sent me to Dr. Rhodes at Regions to have my neck tested. I told Dr. Rhodes on the day of the test that I was found positive for Chlamydia. I also asked Dr. Rhodes before he did the test to test for chlamydia and gonorrhea in my neck and he acted like he would but then he did not do the tests, that require special mediums called Mc Coy cell culture and Thayer-Martin Medium. Dr. Ardolf told me he would do a Thayer-Martin Culture of my blood when I asked him to but I do not believe he did it. Dr. Ardolf gave me too small a dose of ceftriaxone (a drug used to treat Gonorrhea) to treat my infection and had refused to do this blood culture at first. He had told me that it would not show up in my blood test when I first asked him to test my blood for gonorrhea at an appointment. When he finally did agree to do the test he did it after I had an injection of the antibiotic ceftriaxone. Antibiotic use can affect the results of a test. My medical record shows that the Thayer Martin test was canceled after a large amount of blood was drawn from my arm.
Dr. Ardolf sent me back to Dr. Bornstein, an infectious disease doctor at Health East that I had seen the year before. I told Dr. Bornstein I thought I have gonorrhea and he told me I should have a chest x-ray, the exact test he did the year before. He had missed that I had chlamydia the year before. He did a very quick exam and then I think I remember him say something about how he wasn’t sure why I was here. I also think he uses mental health issues as excuse for giving poor medical care.

Update by misledp
Sep 13, 2016 4:09 pm EDT

please edit the first sentence of my comment:
It should say chlamydia (NOT gonorrhea)
I went to Health East Clinic in Maplewood, MN and they found me negative for Chlamydia in a urine test when I was actually positive.

Update by misledp
Sep 13, 2016 4:27 pm EDT

Here you can read about Gonorrhea cultures and how they should be done:
http://www2a.cdc.gov/stdtraining/self-study/gonorrhea/cdc_self_study_gonorrhea_diagnosis.html

Update by misledp
Sep 22, 2016 12:52 pm EDT

view my video:
http://s1378.photobucket.com/user/misledp/library/?view=recent&page=1

Update by misledp
Sep 22, 2016 1:18 pm EDT

here is a link to my other video:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/6kmrctl277wif0c/20160920_065245.mp4

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