Eastern Maine Medical Center Hospital

Nothing but praise and thankful to Dr. Toder and the EMMC team! I wanted an expert in the field with a proven track record of excellence and that is what I received. The program's expectations are well defined, you follow them and you will achieve success! Dr. Toder is a straight shooter, and will be nothing short of honest with you. Perhaps some of the negative posts are because some people just can't bear to hear or acknowledge the truth when it is presented to them. I prefer to go into surgery armed with all the information, the pros/cons and fully prepared to do what ever it takes to be a success story.
Dr. Toder provided me with this and the team answered every question I had, responded to every telephone call and email and I know that now the success is up to me! I will always be thankful to Dr. Toder for the fresh start in life she provided to me.

He is no longer with Womack Army Medical Center, he is now with Northeast Surgery of Maine. I was very comfortable with him being my doctor. He is very straight forward with his concerns and what he expects from you. I have yet to have my surgery - it's scheduled for 7/9/13, but I am confident that it will go swimmingly.

"Obesity Help staff has the sole discretion to remove posts without warning or explanation", That would explain why its smelling like roses for toder. I feel that if this removed, you are doing an injustice, by not informing other's of intolerable, and unacceptable misconducted behavior about Toder.

I'm a post op 6 yrs ago, and was seen by Dr. Toder the beginning of 2013 for pain. This was my first time meeting with her. It was noted in my referral why I was there and that it was due to complications from a bad gastric bypass procedure. My objective was there to find the cause of my severe pain and investigate why, and if it was a plausibility from complications like the report said.

I was immediately yelled at by Toder saying, "YOU DID NOT HAVE A BAD GASTRIC BYPASS!" The thing is, I never stated that fact, this was noted in a GI Dr. report after testing.

She disregarded the reason I was there which was server pain, and focused on denial of any possible of a bad procedure. I was verbally attacked. In Toder's preconceived notion yelled, "IF YOU THINK YOU CAN WALTZ IN HERE BECAUSE YOU ATE YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR GASTRIC BYPASS AND THINK YOUR GETTING A NEW ONE, YOUR SADLY MISTAKING"!

She informed me that she is disregarding those test and report because the GI Dr is incompetent and that she would not be taking any suggestions from her.

and threw it back at me by saying, "SO, WHY ARE YOU HERE?"

She tried to belittle and give me a hard time by interrogating me of not having a job to the words, ""do you, so you don't, so your not working?"

Since when does it make it ok, to give someone a hard time because their not working outside the home, but working full time and devote taking care my 13 year old daughter with a severely disabled make me a second class citizen? Toder had me in tears. Her misconduct and poor insulting behavior was unwarranted, when I was just there for help.

She told me she was going to make a referral for an endoscope which has now 4 months ago. I have yet to heard from Toder, or the referral. I have since moved on with test to concur with the GI Doctor.

You can also add to Toder resume unethical behavior, truthfully challenge and someone who willfully neglects there patient if it serves her to do so to to cover up any wrong doings. I just received my records this past week and found that Toder made a fictional report to disguised the real reason I was there, and made it to look I was a difficult patient.

I just want to add a learning note that makes this successful for me. Having a child with servere disabilities, I find that I am not able to retain all information. So for years now, I record every doctor visit so I can reflect on anything I don't remember, and my visit with Toder was not any different. You have alot of explaining to do....

She' s great! Simple

I have noticed that some of their employees were rather rude when I was being prepped for my procedure. The anesthesiologist was almost laughing at my endocrinologist who had prescribed me medication to prevent diabetes.
Another was sighing and not really polite as she didn't talk to me at all and had a non comforting tone of voice when I was being wheeled into the room to have the procedure done.
The rest of the staff was amazing, and VERY supportive of all the work and weight I have done and lost.

Everything I read about Dr. Toder when I was looking into having WLS is true. She is an excellent surgeon! Above and beyond, I found her down to earth and easy to talk to. She even called me the Friday evening before I was to have surgery to see how I was doing and if I had any questions or concerns. She is direct and makes sure her patients know the good, the bad, and the ugly about the surgeries. I had my surgery on 8/22/11 and between pre and post-op have lost about 85 lbs. I am thrilled that I had this surgery and that Dr. Toder performed it. I would high recommend her!

Nurses and Techs were great. I had a very loud roomate, but that was no fault of the staff or hospital. They did provide ear plugs which were a great help.

I met Dr. Toder on August 30,2011. She is a great Doctor. I had my surgery on September 26,2011 I just had my 2 week check-up and I had alot of questions for her and she took the time to answer all of them!!!!! I'm losing weight and feeling great. THANKS TO DR. TODER !!!!!!

The hospital and the doctors and nures were great!!!! I would tell anyone who is interested in having stomach surgery to go to the best hospital in the state of Maine EMMC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I gave the question "How restfully quiet did you find your experience?" as poor,but that is not really a reflection of the hospital quality. It is impossible to rest in a hospital, especially when you are being awoken several times a day for vitals and meds, etc. My roommate had a very large rude family that made it uncomfortable for me when they were visiting. Although, I think the nurses could have mentioned to the family that children under the age of 14 were not allowed in the rooms for visiting and the family room was available for visits. I also think there should be a limit of 4 people per time visiting. Perhaps if there was not 8 people visiting, including toddlers at a time it would not have been so uncomfortable for me. The day nurses did not seem to be as interested in my comfort and care as my night nurses. My bed never got changed the entire two and a half days I was there because the nurse tech "forgot" the first day and the second day I "was going home anyway." I was released around 3 p.m.

My night nurse team was EXCELLENT. Jen and Casey were considerate of my needs, compassionate and willing to help me and check on me on a regular basis. My day nurses never once offered to help me with my hygeine. Casey and Jen made sure I had a wash cloth and towel and helped me retrieve my clothing and toiletries so I could wash up at night and feel human. Jen talked to me about my medicines and told me that it would be OK to take pain meds if I really needed them. Casey always was gentle and considerate when she needed to wake me for my tests. I adore Jen and Casey.