Turnage Jim, MD

Dr. Turnage has been my doctor for several years. I have not experienced the things mentioned in the negative reviews. Nor have I observed same with other patients. He gives his each pt time according to their needs. Many times patients share, at least I do, & doc encourages friendly sharing among pt’s as helpful to healing, a concept I happen to agree with. In fact I have learned a lot & learned some great health ideas & gotten suggestions & support from other patients. However, if you have privacy issues, I would recommend that you ask to close the door. If you can hear a conversation in another room, it is probably with a pt who shares his & my beliefs about sharing. I prefer the relaxed atmosphere. I haven’t noticed his office to be dirty. Unfortunately I find it necessary to go to a lot of doctors. His office is cleaner than some & not as antiseptic as others. I prefer the relaxed atmosphere that doesn’t seem to go wi antiseptic. I have never come out of his office with a germ I didn’t go in with & I’m a bit of a germaphobe. I’d have to be at death’s door to go to the emergency room. I think I’m coming down with something just thinking about the wait in a crowded, germ filled emergency room. I have had several years of Dr. Turnage’s spinal manipulations which have aided me in getting out of a wheelchair & combined with traditional medicine, overcoming the chronic pain of spinal stenosis, arthritis & more. I have experienced Dr. Turnage’s diagnostic ability with unusual symptoms. Doc acted quickly & made sure I had the best of care & appropriate testing & specialists to keep me on this side of the dirt. I didn’t read my name in the obits so I assume I’m still here LOL. I find these technical abilities to be one of the most important in my Primary Care Dr. & my veterinarian. These technical abilities are more important to me than bedside manner. Doc has a good bedside manner. My vet, not so much, but both meet my first criteria as excellent diagnosticians. I think there is room for improvement between Dr. Turnage’s communication & his staff. However, Dr Turnage has been willing to take appropriate action in spite of the durress of insurance companies, hospital boards, & the constant threat of sudden &(illegal IMO) audits by the justice system (who examine yours & my medical records without our permission & in violation of HIPPA) fyi doctors must prescribe according to the requirements of the justice system. The justice enforcers have become the medical prescribers. The healthcare prescribers are forced to become law enforcers. What’s wrong with this picture? However, Despite this Doc does his best to legally traverses the system in the best interest of the pt. I have experienced his diagnostic ability & appropriate action in these urgent times, with Dr. Turnage Those abilities are something that I believe are more important criteria when choosing a dr,. than some of the negatives presented by other posters ie antiseptic office, appearance of professional appearance by staff & long waiting room waits, which I too, am not fond of. But I do know while waiting, that he is giving a pt the time they need. I bring paper work with me. We all have to decide on the criteria important to us & our children, when making such important choices as the person to keep us alive & active & who takes appropriate action in urgent situations. What Dr. Turnage does, for the most part, works for me.

I’ve been a patient of Dr. Turnage for several years and have not experienced the issues in other reviews. Dr. Turnage always takes enough time with patients, he is not one of those 3 minute, 12 patient an hour doctors. I’ve always found his staff to be knowledge, helpful and professional. Dr. Turnage is an outstanding caring Doctor with an insight to health and healing you won’t find with other Doctors.

Can’t say much about Dr. Turnage bc after sitting in the exam room for 90 minutes I haven’t seen the guy, but I enjoyed reading the last patients info that was left on the computer as well as listening to the conversation going on in the next exam room. If privacy and efficiency are your things this is not the place for you. The office is very outdated and frankly a bit creepy, I don’t have high hopes for making it out alive. How many days til the next open enrollment?

Place was dirty. Felt uncomfortable. Nurses kids were hanging out in the waiting room. Was not a professional environment. Dr turnage was very odd and has some very weird philosophies about healing and very new age type of thinking. I was hopeful since I read he was a «wholistic practitioner», but this was quite different than I’d hope for. He told me my right side was tense and attempted to ask me if I’m having issues with females! Very unprofessional!

A wonderful doctor and a very interesting person. I’ve been a patient for over 15 years and would never see another doctor !!! He has a great bedside manner and has spent over a hour with me when I needed him. What other doctor does that!!!
If it wasn’t for Dr. Jim Turnage I would not be here today. I had a fall and a concussion. He saw me immediately. He sent me to have an MRI and found a brain tumor. Sent me to a surgeon and helped me looked up the surgeons qualifications before I had the surgery because I did not know what to look for or even how to look up this information. I had the surgery and and an aneurism was also found. When I woke up from the surgery he was there. In Oct it will be 7 years since the surgery and I’m doing well. I feel without the doctor doing a thorough examine I would not be here today. He has always gone beyond his duties as a doctor for my whole family. Some doctors I seen in the past were horrible. They see you for 5 minutes and push you out the door with pills that have all kind of horrible side affects. Because of the negligence of past doctors I’ve had my daughter was born with her fingers and toes not fully developed because of medication given to me and they did not tell me all the side affects or I would have never taken them and that was 35 yrs ago the doctors today are worst they see you for 3 minutes, if you are 2 minutes late they do not see you and charge you a late fee and if they are late they do not even apologize for being late !!! All the doctors care about is the money, what happened to becoming a doctor to help others? When I see other doctors I feel like I’m on a conveyor belt and the first thing they do is grab my wallet, shove pills in my face and send me off. I’ve never had this happen with Dr. Turnage. Instead of saying mean things about him, learn from him he should teach some of the other doctors how to be human again. I try not to take medicines that have bad side affects and that’s where Dr. Turnage is very helpful. Homeopathic medicines and herbs are what I have learned from Dr. Turnage and what I take. I’ve recommended him to friends and family. He does not say negative things about other doctors. These doctors are very unprofessional. I hope I never have to see them for any treatment. Thank You Dr. Jim Turnage. Keep up the great work and don’t change for anyone !!!

This is real translation of his webiste:
His Health Philosophy: I don’t care about patients just give me the copay and get out of my office asap.
His biopsychosocial-​spiritual model: Again, please pay the copay and get out of my office… and ASAP!!!
You can have faith that when things go wrong… I don’t care. get me the copay and get the f out of my office asap.
Please stay away from this «Doctor» he doesn’t care about you health, all he want’s is your copay. 2 minutes it took him to look at my back problem and 30 minutes talking about his statistics and accomplishments as a doctor. So fool of himself.

I was looking for a pediatrician because I am due in a month and I wanted to talk with providers before choosing because I would like to find a doctor that we really like and can stay with for years and years. Every doctor that I had contacted had appointments for meet and greet, personal one-​on-​one, or other avenue to meet with prospective patients at no charge.
While Dr. Turnage’s outgoing message seemed affable enough, it is just not enough to go on when choosing the person who will look after your family. I did get a call back that day, but the answer was disappointing — «we don’t meet with prospective patients, you’ll just have to bring your baby in after you deliver.» Uh, ok, and how do I find out more about the doctor, his practice, his approach? I just cross my fingers and hope that it’s a fit? I’m not shopping for a good car wash, this is my child’s health.
I was attracted by the «Holistic Family Physician» banner, but I think that with a tagline like that he should really give the process for enrolling new patients better consideration — unless he doesn’t need new patients.