Question:
Dr. Richard Symmonda and Dr. Juaquin Rodriequez - have any references?

Please help - enrollment period for Texas State Employees in progress. These 2 physicians are doctors that are on the Scott and White Health Plan, which will pay for WLS surgery. Trouble is, they're not on this Website in the "Find a Doc" section, and I've never seen any discussion, questions, complaints, or anything else about them anywhere. I do understand that Scott and White Hospital in Temple Texas is one of the finest around, but am nervous about not having heard about these guys before. For surgery of this magnitude, feel I need to hear really good reports. Anyone heard anything about them? I've gone to the Scott and White website, and, see good testimonials, but know they're not going to be advertising any bad results. Please, if you have any input on them, let me know. Thanks, Pam Cerda    — pam C. (posted on July 19, 2002)

July 19, 2002
Pam, Go into Find a Surgeon again, click browse the list, U.S. map will come up. Look below the map, put in R and a list of all doctors with names that begin with R will come up(listed in alphabetical order) scroll down to your doctor's name, go over and click on view. His page will come up, scroll down to see comments from patients. Then do the same thing for the letter S. I don't think many people know about this, they just see the map and that's all. Looked up the surgeons you are interested in, they both have a few comments from patients. Hope this helps!!! Jo-Dee Hortz P.S. I swore I emailed you with this information the other day, but then again it could have been someone else.
   — tinyjo