Rudd Clinic Oakville ON Canada ??

Has anyone here ever been treated at the Rudd Clinic in Oakville Ontario?

If so, I am anxious to know what your experience was like.

Yes, although my understanding is that he's not a GI. Saw

Saw Dr. Rudd on a number of occasions when I first developed Ulcerative Proctitis. A gentleman but a poor bedside manner. Doesn't take the time to explain the disease just sticks a short scope up your but and writes a script. It wasn't until my GP referred me to Dr. Comay in Burlington ( who gave me a colonoscopy ) that I understood what was going on.

I had the impression from Dr. Comay and the staff a Joe Brant they seemed to have a low opinion of Rudd,... although a friend of mine is a GP and knows of him...guess he's somewhat famous with a clinic downtown and one in Oakville.

When I went into massive flare I made point of going to emerg at Mount Sinai as it's one of North America's leading research hospitals. Can't say enough goods thing about the GIs, nurses and research staff. Now that I've moved out of downtown I still travel there for GI appointments and Remicade. From my experience the GI's in the burbs are second rate. Not trying to offend...just my experience and opinion.

Sorry to bump this thread, but I went out of town the next day and figured it had scrolled off with no bites. I didn't realize a few replies ensued three days later!

Anyhoo, it seems my own experiences were very similar to puffed rice and Jratt!

Saw him in winter '04 after being referred by my MD. I'd been suffering with symptoms of what you could only describe from reading this forum, as mild but bleeding UC!

He gave me a quick sigmoidiscope, told me I had Anusitis and sent me home with a scrip for Anurex. This is not so much a medication but rather a device, a cryogenic probe which is kept in the freezer, has a life of six months, to be inserted (freezing) like an enema and kept in for about 15 minutes. It was basically just an alternative treatment for hemmoroids.

Well it did absolutely nothing to alleviate my ever worsening UC, the blood was still there and Bms were getting more frequent. My next visit was for a colonoscopy, when he said he'd removed a couple of polyps but still no mention of to just where the blood was coming from. I later found out that this Anurex device was his own 'invention' and he gained big-time on every sale!

On the third visit (spring '06) he gave me a sig. and after telling him that I was having about 12 urgent bms a day he then prescribed 5asa enemas/suppositories/pills plus lomotil and and told me to see him in 3 weeks. Well it just got worse and my weight was dropping rapidly, like 35 lbs in 6 weeks. My last visit he gave me his obligatory excruciating sig. and simply told me there was "nothing more he could do for me and to see another specialist"

He basically MISDIAGNOSED me which allowed my UC to go UNTREATED for almost 18 months!

My current GI said pretty much the same thing that Jratt said, and it's rare that medics trash talk their own unless there's good reason.

Sure, I felt so bitter about his incompetence especially the fact that with a proper earlier diagnosis, my UC would have probably been nipped in the bud to an extent that it would have never got such a foothold and reached the 'pancolitis' stage that hospitalized me for a week with a life-threatening major flare.

I contemplated suing his arse but thought twice as it would be difficult to prove. His reputation must have taken a knock as I don't think he's operating at his Oakville clinic anymore.

Thanks for listening.

Post Edited (Mackster) : 8/5/2010 2:56:29 PM (GMT-6)

Mackster,  Thats funny that you mention the Annurex he told me to use it as well so I went after the appointment and bought one and tried to use it well there was no improvement in my UC, it didn't even provide relief because it was so darn cold.   I was just getting worse and I also had lost about 30 lbs so I was under 100lbs, I also bought the book he wrote because he said I needed to read it.  He is just a Quack that is getting rich off all of us. 

I was at the Oakville Ruddclinic yesterday for a colonoscopy. Support staff and doctors I saw were professional and approachable. The process of meeting my recovery nurse, the anastesiologist (sp?), the procedure nurse as well as the doctor doing the procedure, was appreciated by me. Everything appeared clean, bright, and well kept. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of care and especially how thought was given to my dignity. Thank you Rudd Clinic!