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David Chalker, DO
Shrewsbury Family Practice Ctr
(21 Review)
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55 Old Farm Ln Shrewsbury, PA 17361
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(21 Reviews)
Service
3 star average for Service
Environment
4 star average for Environment
Expertise
3.5 star average for Expertise
Staff
4.5 star average for Staff
Recommended
3.5 star average for Recommended
Value
4 star average for Value
The second time I came in to this doctor followed a 2am ER trip where I had, very suddenly and without warning, started throwing up and had unbearable pain all over my upper-right torso. Prior to this I never, ever had nausea or back pain of any kind. At the ER they told me that it may have been my gallbladder, but they wanted to run several tests. The ER wait was so long that my husband needed to go to work very soon, and I told them that since I had no other ride home I absolutely had to go or he was out of a job. I had promised them that I'd get in to my doctor ASAP, and I did. I relayed the entire visit to Dr. Chalker, including the possibility of gallstones. He told me nothing was wrong because I hadn't strained or injured my back and to take Aleve. At least five more visits and it was always the same. I didn't want to keep coming back to the ER for shots and pills, and PA Medicaid wouldn't give me a new doctor. I kept hoping he'd give me some diagnosis that proved I wasn't just some junkie hitting him up for pain pills, which seems to be something of a problem in those parts. He finally gave me an x-ray, which won't show gallstones. I gave up, and he never asked about it when I took my daughter in for vaccinations afterwards.

I was finally diagnosed a year later, after much suffering, by my OB. I was actually a little happy to know that there really was something wrong, that I wasn't just going crazy. I was unable to get gallbladder surgery because of the pregnancy, and am just now starting to see about having it done after over a year and a half of this. There were times that I was unable to eat anything, either from throwing up or fear of making the pain worse. My son was premature, and I'm so underweight that I was wearing a junior's XS shirt and a junior's size 3 jeans the day I went in to labor. That's smaller than what I was in pre-pregnancy.

All I needed was an ultrasound. They take about ten minutes.
by sylphide
November 26, 2010
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55 Old Farm Ln, Shrewsbury, PA 17361