Glen Strickland Bariatric Surgeon MD, FACS

Dr. Strickland and Dr. Givens both seem very nice. Dr. Strickland is very personable; I even found out that we share the same dentist. They encouraged me to bring family and friends to our first meeting. I brought my closest friend and confidant who will also be helping me through recovery and they made her feel at home. Dr. Strickland and his nurse, Amanda, answered all our questions and were very open about the whole procedure. Right now, Dr. Strickland only does Open RNYs. He feels the laproscopic procedure for the RNY just isn't refined yet, although he does do lap surgery for other procedures. So far I have no complaints about Southern Surgical or Dr. Strickland, nor do I expect to. Everything has met the level or professionalism that I was expecting.

I found the doctors Strickland and Givens very helpful and knowledgeable about the procedure. The office staff was also very helpful. I did a lot of research on RNY Surgery. I also talked to alot of people who had it done. I'm ready to have the surgery and start my new life.

Dr. Strickland is extremely friendly and helpful. My first appt he seemed very patient and not in a hurry. No question was silly and he looks like he finds his work very rewarding. I look forward to meeting with him again on my follow up on 3/29/01.

He does have a structured aftercare program. He follows you closely for the rest of your life. He plans on checking regularly for vitamin defeciencies.

3/30/01
Dr Strickland dictated my letter the same afternoon I came into his office. He is on top of things, I like that. He and Amanda are awesome. They even impressed my mother who admits she is hard to impress.

Amanda, Dr Strickland nurse, and Dianne, the billing rep, have been so helpful and attentive. They always return phone calls and are always on top of their job. What a great encouragement that is .

Glen is a very personable doctor,he helped to quicly allay my fears and made this process a lot easier than I thought it would be.The follow up by him and his staff has been outstanding.

The surgeon I have picked is Dr Glen Strickland of Lexington South Carolina. I have not been to see him as of yet, but my appointment is 2/21/00. I will up date soon

2-21-00: I had my appt today. It went well and Dr Strickland said he would do the surgery on me. I have to see his nutritionist and his psychologist and then schedule another appt for myself and for my husband to come along with me. Dr STrickland is a very nice man. He is about my age (late 30s, early 40's) a great bedside manner. His staff was very friendly. I will let yall know more as I know more. Whew, at least I have a surgeon now, and he's in my own town.

4-5-00 I now have a surgery date for May 23rd, 2000. I am, so far, very happy with Dr strickland. He and his staff do everything they say the are going to do. I also like him because he will not just jump into doing the surgery because you want it. He carefully screens his potential surgical candidates for their potential success-failure rate, but its not the extensive hoop jumping like some of the other surgeons do. I also liked the fact that he insists on having your spouse, or other support persons come to an appt to ask questions and gain information on the care of a post op WLS patient.He has an easy personality, a great beside manner and is very easy on the eyes (lol). His program includes weekly meetings with him or the nutritionist for the 1st 6 weeks, then monthly, then yearly after that for ever. I have not had any negative experience with him or his staff to this point. I will write more as I experience more.

5-19-00. So far I have had a very positive experience with him and his office. they return calls when they say they will, and even called me to make sure I wasn't too nervous about the surgery. The only thing that bothered me was that they charge $10.00 per form to fill out any insurance paperwork or leave of absence paperwork. I thought that was a little high.

6-9-00
My overall experience was positive. My surgeon is very attentive and personalble, but the rest of the partners ( the one's that I met and dealt with) are typical surgeons. 2 seconds on the phone or in your hospital room and then they are gone. Especially Dr Myatich....he blew me off when I called him about a problem. But I will handle that later

8/13/00
I have been nothing but happy with his care. He is a wonderful caring man and really wants to h elp obese people