I would highly recommend not using this doctor. My wife needed her gallbladder removed, Check the Washingtonian top 100 doctors and most of the doctors were booked 1-2 weeks out. Except Surgeon Turgeon. He was polite and from what I researched one of the first doctors in the area to perform lathroscopic surgery. I am not capable of rating his ability to perform the surgery since I do not have the knowledge nor the ability. But after the surgery surgeon turgeon was extremely rude. I spoke down to my wife when she was in extreme pain and had zero bed side manner when touching the incisions. She was crying while he was touching her stomach and did not stop or ease up. It is obvious that when you have surgery you will go through pain, but it would not hurt him to be courteous. He would refuse to help and provide guidance to effectively reduce the pain. I am sure you can find another doctor that can perform this surgery without the physical and verbal pain he has to offer.

Submitted Feb. 10, 2011

this creep waited till he was walking out the door on a Friday night to call me (7 days after my biopsy) to tell me "oh...by the way, you have breast cancer, so you need to bring your family and come see me Monday. He lied, telling me he had ordered lab work, which he hadn't (I heard him call the lab from his office to see if they had my specimen left, and that he needed the test run ASAP. His office "nurse" was actually someone with only a high school education who received on the job training. He let the obviously infected biospy site go because he didn't want to be bothered. He insisted I have breast reconstruction when I didn't want it done. I ran to another surgeon who was wonderful...of course, compared to this idiot, the dog catcher would be great!

Submitted June 29, 2007