Yvette Gutierrez-Schieffer, MD

I have been seeing Dr. Schieffer for many years. She has done a couple of surgical procedures on me as well as helping me through menopause and dealing with various conditions. She is kind, offers thorough explanations, and is never condescending.

Dr Schieffer was my dr for my first pregnancy, my overall labor experience was so horrible that I ended up going to altogether a different practice.
Around my delivery time frame, she was going to go out of town and recommended that I could get induced before she goes for a leave. Everyone knows, if you are perfectly healthy and have no medical necessity that inducing is not a good option. I was determined that I didn’t want to be induced. She went on saying that I could get induced and if it didn’t work out then I could go home. Seriously WTF?
Obviously, I ignored her advice and waited for labor to take start naturally. My labor was very long and after taking contractions all night I went to hospital at 5 am in the morning. It was a weekday and Dr Schiffer was not on call that day. She came to see me at 7 by then I was 6 cm dilated. Her only agenda was to make sure that I deliver the baby while she was still at work. And she kept pushing that I should take Pitocin, broke my water and then when I resisted to take Pitocin she asked the nurse to put IUPC inside me to measure the intensity of the contractions. That caused so much swelling later. I couldn’t trust her for a second, every 30 – 50 mins she would call my nurse and advice her to put me on Pitocin to augment the labor. I wasn’t anyway keen on having her deliver my baby, I didn’t care if she left before my baby arrived. But, being doctor she let me down big time and on one of the most important days of my life. Eventually I was put on Pitocin and had to take epidural after starving all the while (didn’t eat was on juices only). I was completely dilated by 5 p. m, but then she arrived and said, well we should wait for baby to descend and the dr on-​call would be there to help me with delivery. The doctor on call was equally useless and I didn’t start pushing till 9 and eventually with all that drama I developed low grade fever. It was definitely less than 100 and they put me on antibiotics and took my baby to NICU within an hour of his birth (for antibiotics). It was so heart breaking that they put IV on him, I had to go to NICU on wheelchair to feed him afterwards. He was perfectly healthy child and tortured for no reason. Next morning I had such bad swelling and I guess body was still in shock, I didn’t pee. They put catheter on me again but this time without anesthesia. The pain was worst than the third degree tear I suffered during delivery.
I would go on to say, don’t go to this practice at all. Find some place where they have midwifes and more normal rules and they don’t make an experiment out of your delivery. Lot of practices allow eating during labor if your body allows, use natural ways to augment labor and don’t force antibiotics if the fever is less than 100.4.

DR. was alright, not someone who seemed super interested in me and my care, but just getting done with the day. After a standard annual, my insurance covers 100%, I got a ton of bills due to incorrect coding.
NIGHTMARE.
They have a different office for everything. Still not completely resolved and took MONTHS to get a response and assistance.
avoid this monster practice and find a team that cares about your care and their accuracy

I don’t have a lot of needs when it comes to my womanly needs.
Dr. Yvette Gutierrez Schieffer meets all those needs. I can usually get an appointment for my yearly checkup within a few weeks of calling.
The doctor is with the Austin Diagnostic Clinic group and her office is in the Women’s section of St. David’s North. Once inside the waiting room, I usually only have to wait 10 min. before they get me into the examination room.
There has only been a couple of times where Dr. Schieffer hasn’t seen me but rather an RN (which is fine). Dr. Schieffer is fast, friendly and knowledgeable. I’m usually in and out of the exam room in less than 20 minutes. YES!
They usually get my rx into my mail order pharmacy in a timely manner as well. Overall, great gyno — can’t speak on her baby delivering skills but the pics of the babies on the wall are cute. :)

While Dr. Shieffer is very nice. If you have any sort of issue outside the norm this is not the doctor for you. I recently moved to Austin and have PCOS that has gotten quite out of hand for what ever reason. I have been having some major weight gain and break through bedding problems that are both quite scary. I felt super rushed with Dr. Sheiffer. She was running behind and did not really want to deal with me. She didn’t explain a whole lot of anything nor did she seem concerned that I was having a period 3 out of 4 weeks of the month while on birth control pills. Or that I had gained 30 lbs in a pretty short period of time. She made no mention of follow up appointments. She threw a couple of samples of new birth control pills at me and was out the door and told me to call her P.A. For a an rx if they worked. Her support staff seems rushed and really willing to answer questions either. After 2 months on the new pills I was still having the break through bleeding I called to speak with herP.A. And the response was yet another type of birth control, which I have found out from my new doctor was in completely the wrong direction. Still no mention of follow up appointments. I saw a new doctor this week who fixed all of my prescriptions, is actually worried about my endocrine system, and has told me that if this new pill doesn’t fix the bleeding I am headed towards biopsy. This is quite scary that this the first mention of biopsy and I have been dealing with Dr. Sheiffer’s office since May! there are lots of beautiful babies on the wall of her office, so if you don’t have any major issues I am sure she is a fine doctor, but if you are dealing with something like Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome this is not the doctor for you. I felt like I was being patted on the head and sent on my way instead of actually dealing with what could turn out to be some serious issues.

I just moved to Austin and had to find a new Gyno/OBGYN…always fun!!! Dreading the search, I opted to check out Dr. Yvette Schieffer since she was close to home (Mopac & Parmer) and female :)
Her medical assistant was super sweet and friendly, good start so far. Ok… in walked Dr. Schieffer, super professional, she shook my hand, greeted me with a warm smile then asked me a gazillion questions about my health history and from there we just started going off into random tangents about every topic imaginable. She is very personable and made me feel as comfortable as one could be when you have metal pliers in-​your-​you-​know-​what-​area.
Dr. Schieffer was extremely thorough and made a lot of suggestions to better my health, those things are always a PLUS + in my book!
If you are in need of a female OBGYN, this is your lady!