OB-GYN, P.C.: Lomax Jr Carter O MD at 2854 South 11th Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Over the course of two pregnancies, I saw Dr. Lomax a handful of times. Each time I waited 45+ minutes. I never had to wait more than 10 minutes with any of the other providers in the office. His bedside manner leaves something to be desired as he spends a lot of time talking about his dogs and whatever expensive electronics he's recently purchased. If I had an actual medical concern, he was dismissive and borderline rude. The night I went into labor with my daughter, I had been having intense contractions 5 min apart for 2 hours. I called the after-hours number, they informed me Dr Lomax was on call that night. When he called me back he never said hello or introduced himself. As I was trying to say "Hello, is this Dr Lomax?" he cut me off saying "Just tell me what's going on. I was asleep." - nevermind the fact that I was the one who'd been awake all night in LABOR. The whole phone call he was very rude and abrasive, as though I intentionally went into labor on the night he was on call. So I told him what was happening, that I was having really intense contractions 5 minutes apart for over two hours at this point. He told me it was probably nothing, just from my exam earlier in the day(with a different provider in the office). He said if I wanted I could have the nurses check me at the hospital, but that he was going back to sleep. After that, I tried to thank him for his time out of common courtesy when he hung up on me. I'm not someone who cries easily, but after that phone call, I broke down. I don't know about you, but I don't like being yelled at by a healthcare "professional" while I'm in labor. The rest of the story I'll condense for you. I tried to slow my labor, taking a shower, googling anything I could, because I did not want Dr. Lomax delivering my baby. It didn't work, we left for the hospital, and I ended up feeling the urge to push when we were still 30 minutes out. We stopped at a hospital along the way, where even though I walked in off the street, in the middle of the night, I was treated with more kindness and dignity than I ever received from Dr Lomax any of the times I was his patient. Thank God there was a hospital there because otherwise I would have delivered my daughter on the side of the road. I was angry (so angry I knew I couldn't write a review without spewing) about this experience for a long time, but now a year and a half later, I'm mostly just appalled that an OB would ever treat his patient like that. I just hope that no one else will ever be treated like that while laboring to bring their baby into the world. We deserve better than that.