Steven Rockman might have the skills of a surgen but he is the rudest most demeaning doctor I have ever met! I was admitted to the hospital due to an acute illness that required emergency surgery. Dr Rockman did not listen to me, the patient. He treated me as though he knew my body/symptoms better than me. When Dr. Rockman would ask me questions he would interrupt with his own answers. He didn't talk to me adult to adult, he talked at me. During one conversation, Dr Rockman became angry when I refused to allow him to demean and bully me during a conversation with him. He got so angry that he stormed out of my hospital room slamming the door behind him. The hospital staff appologized consistently for Dr. Rockman's behavior during my hospital stay. When a person is ill enough to be hospitalize their only concern should be getting well. That was not my experience as a patient of Dr Steven Rockman, I had to beg for pain medication, was subjected to frequent conversations that were confrontational/argumentive, and felt that I was bullied instead of being taken care of by Dr. Steven Rockman. As a patient if I had behaved the way he did, I might have been asked to leave.
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