Dr Santosh Shivaswamy ENT Consultant Bangalore - India

My experience with Dr. Santosh S ENT in Columbia Asia hospital Hebbal has been very bad. He prescribed around 15 or more medicines for 2 weeks for just a cough, followed by another huge list of medicines for another 2 weeks and then another huge list, which included everything from antibiotics, anti-allergic, de-worming, etc etc all prescribed all the same time. As a result, I started having the most severe acidity and acid re-flux of my life, which is continuing to be a problem EVEN AFTER 2 YEARS. After 1 month of heavy medication, he suggested that maybe the reason for the cough was acid re-flux (which was caused by medicines he prescribed) and then gave me another long list of medications. Every time, as soon as I entered his exam room, he started typing in the list of medicines in his computer, even before asking about my problem and hardly paid any attention. He spent more time typing in his computer than actually examining or even listening to me. The appointments lasted less than 10 minutes after an hour or more of wait time, even after booking an appointment in advance. He even performed a laryngoscopy without even telling me that he is going to do that. A doctor is actually supposed to get the patients consent and tell the patients about all the possible side effects before performing any such procedure. I made a big mistake of consulting this doctor and taking the huge list of medicines he prescribed. After his medication, I had to take a long course of medication for the acidity and acid re-flux problem that it created. I could not eat and drink a lot of things for a long time and still can’t. Even after 2 years of consulting him, I am still suffering from horrible acidity and acid reflux EVERYDAY!