My husband has CIDP and I know without a doubt Dr. Veda saved his life. The CIDP had become so advanced he was showing symptoms never seen before. It's a shame UMMC doesn’t recognize what a treasure he is to his ill patients. If you are angry about the time he spends with a patient, blame it on the hospital. UMMC is a very good hospital, but they are losing good doctors because of the politics. Patient care is not on the top of the list. We should know, we have been using UMMC for over 21 years.

Submitted Sept. 18, 2017

My son has Erb's and we saw Dr. Veda. The first time we saw him, he was super friendly and helpful. Our son had no movement in his arm. We did an EKG and a nerve conduction study. Generally, when children are the same age as what my son was at the time, it's best to do surgery (I learned this after the fact). Unfortunately, Dr. Veda only suggested OT and PT. I didn't know any better, but we were grateful. Once my son started having movement in his arm, it's as if the doctor lost interest in him. For example, I mentioned that my son has trouble supinating (turning the palm upward/bringing the hand to the mouth) and he said, "The only reason why you'd be turning your palms up is to beg." He told us that there was nothing more that could be done for my son and no other reasons for appointments. He also said therapy was useless. I understand that at a certain point, there's nothing more than can be done, however, that's when surgery becomes an option. I've spoken to other parents and people with Erb's and got in touch with another doctor and are now moving forward. His staff is super friendly, and I've never had a problem with them. I have had appointments canceled more than once, which is inconvenient, because we make them months in advance. So when an appointment is canceled, that means it's even more months we had to wait and see him. We saw him two or three times in the clinic and then twice in his office (smaller office..can't remember what they called it) due to my son developing movement in his arm. The clinic is...not as updated as the rest of the hospital. It looks a lot more run down and old. The wait time to see the doctor in insane. We waiting at least 30 mins -1 hour to be taken to the room, and then once there, it was another 45 mins to see him. He only stayed for maybe 5 mins. I remember when the doctor walked through the door, he didn't even know which patient my son was. When he asked my what my son's name was and what was going on with him, I thought he was joking, especially since it wasn't our first time seeing him. This was after the nerve conduction study was done, so we knew he had our son's record. He's definitely not the worse doctor; maybe we caught him on a bad day.

Submitted Nov. 27, 2016

This doctor is horrible. He is just a money maker for UMMC making countless children go through unnecessary procedures such as muscle biopsies. He is so rude and very condescending. Whatever you do, do not question him at all. He will stand there and scream at you if you try to question anything he says or if you do not do everything he says. He's a joke and completely makes up diagnosis that are found to be untrue later on. UMMC has given him so much power due to the fact he makes them so much
Money that he thinks he can get away with anything and treat people how he wants. Maybe once a long time ago he was a good doctor but now he sucks. Classic case of physician gone horribly bad and heartless.

Submitted May 16, 2015

Condescending, ineffective, uncaring. I agree with a previous reviewer who states he/she doesn't know how Dr. Veda gotten such a great reputation at UMMC. The Darth Veda idolization that is taking place at UMMC is truly harming patient care because no one, not even the patient is allowed to question him. If you don't mind being treated by a patronizing, misogynistic physician....he's your man!

Submitted Aug. 12, 2014

I am not saying that he is not a good doctor, but my son has gone to him for 7 years and he has been on the same dose of seizure medicine since the age of 5 he is now 10 and has seizures all the time. When I told him about this he said increasing his dose would only make him groggy. I rather for him to be groggy then have seizures all the time that can kill him.

Submitted March 21, 2013

I was misdiagnosed with myasthenia gravis for 10 years. When my doctor left, I was assigned to Dr. Veda. Within a few minutes of preliminary testing, Dr. Veda did not believe that this was the correct diagnosis. He did a long overdue deep muscle biopsy and other tests. He was patient and thorough as he, personally, did my EMG. My biopsy has been sent off and I await results. There are not many neuromuscular specialists in Mississippi and they all have their hands full. I am thankful that Dr. Veda is only an hour away from where I live.

Submitted Jan. 29, 2013

Dr Veda diagnosed my son joey with duchenne md he was amazing it was hard to hear what he was saying to us he was sweet thoughtful caring and really cared about our son and us. He was very helpful and took his time he is a true gift to special needs children and to there families

Submitted Sept. 1, 2012

Dr. Veda and his staff BRAG about the fact that he sees 70 patients per day. If you figure an 8 hour clinic day that is 6.8 minutes per patient. So he's going to see a kid with many health issues in 6 minutes. No wonder when we requested records and acually read through them, you could tell that he had just changed the date on the office visit note. Why this man has the reputation that he does elludes me. He's obviously a cash cow for the university but in terms of providing QUALITY care - Hmmmmmm. How can this doctor and UMC get away with this? I agree that it is an assembly line... not a place where sick children are truly CARED for. And the best part is that THERE IS NO WHERE ELSE IN THE ENTIRE STATE FOR YOUR CHILD TO BE SEEN BY A PEDS NEUROLOGIST. Wow!

Submitted Jan. 25, 2012

Dr. Veda is the most thorough doctors I have seen. Very knowledgeable - and will work to find the root of the problem, not simply give you some medicine to get by.

Submitted Jan. 18, 2012

we went to Dr. Veda when our son was first diagnosed with Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy. Dr Veda gave us the final diagnosis and was very helpful and friendly at that time, once he realized we didn't want to take his advise 100% he turned very ugly, telling our insurance that we no longer needed therapy for our son, because we were going to have a cure!!!(We were trying an experimental treatment) We also had to get an attorney to write a letter for us to get our sons records. He became very ugly and unprofessional, it is our son after all and we should have the right to do what we feel is best. Once he was not the important on he no longer cared about our son and was only vendictive!

Submitted Dec. 29, 2011