Traci E Powell MD & Associates

I feel a little strange reviewing a doctor, but let’s go with it.
I wanted to like Dr. Powell, I really did. My OB sent me her way after I had my baby and starting showing symptoms of PPD. My first appointment with her was absolutely wonderful, but my subsequent appointments were less so.
She’s only in the office 2 days a week, for a few hours at a time. Maybe this is because of scheduling issues or it’s common practice, but I didn’t like having to rush out of work on Monday afternoons or come in late on Friday mornings to see her just for a 15 minute appointment, especially when I usually waited longer than that in the waiting room.
However, I could be forgiving of this, I think, if I wasn’t constantly being cancelled or rescheduled. I’m not kidding when I say most, if not all, of my appointments were cancelled and then rescheduled for another day. I could always tell when my appointment would be cancelled because the week prior to my appointment, no one would call to confirm. Then suddenly, a few hours before, someone would call and say the doctor was out of the office. I knew my appointment was going to go through as planned whenever I got a phone call. My last appointment was my last appointment because someone called to cancel, then told me they’d call me back, and never did. A few weeks later I got a notice they were moving offices, followed by a bill. OSSUM.
I think Dr. Powell herself is lovely, and in retrospect I gained more than I thought I did from our visits. However, I feel that as a patient my mental health (and ultimately the health of my family as I was seeing her for PPD) wasn’t necessarily a priority.