Jeanine R Fickert
January 2024
Jeanine R
Fickert
,
ARNP
Primary Care Clinics (PACT)
Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center
Spokane
,
WA
United States
Jeanine Fickert and her team have been outstanding in looking after me, I do not believe my civil doctors would have been as thorough and do believe they would have caught the possibly of cancer until it was very aggressive and possibly terminal at the time of discovery.
I am short of 90 years by a few days, and I met Jeanine Fickert for the first time in April this year. She gave me the most thorough medical checkup that I have ever had in my life.
I have seen numerous medical doctors in my life before but never had any of them go through a checkup as thorough as Jeanine and her team did that day. Checked my health and noted a couple sores I had and asked how long they had been there. I said over 6 months and I had another one on my chest also. She put an order for me to see tele-dermatology to look and prescribe meds for that.
I’m sure I spent over an hour with her, she reviewed my medicines and ultrasound my urinal bladder and prescribed a med to help me empty more so I would not have to go to the restroom as often. After that I went down to tele-derm and a nurse took photos of sore spots, and she noticed that my left nipple was black and took a photo of that as well. After that I went home.
A few days later I received meds by tele-derm and a request for a biopsy of my left nipple. I showed up as requested and the nurse took a sample from the nipple and sent to the lab for analysis. A week later I get a call telling me the analysis was not conclusive and need to go to Inland imaging for a better study. Inland Imaging studied both breast areas and sent them to the VA. Inland imaging saw a possible problem in the right breast and recommend a biopsy as soon as possible, which was done and performed quickly. The pathology report was sent to the VA for follow up.
In the meantime the VA contacted a Breast Surgeon to be my Dr for these procedures while we were waiting for the final pathology report to get there and to the Dr as well. The VA team scheduled her before I had the pathology report completed in anticipation of the report which said I had a cancer condition, my civilian doctors would put out an order for a request and it takes weeks to get the provider several weeks to hear from them and then several weeks to see them to get a report back to my doctor team, but the VA team has always been looking forward and getting things scheduled in case I may need and it is working, and I cannot thank them enough. They are outstanding.
The cancer doctor met with me and we reviewed the process. She gave me 3 choices, one was a little surgery and oncology and radiation for a time to start, the second choice was a little more surgery and oncology for a time, the third recommendation was mastectomy, which if done may relieve me of further cancer for some time if not for the rest of my life, she did say I may want to have checkup 6 months to a year apart to see that I stayed cancer free. We are scheduling surgery sometime this month.
The point I'm making is Jeanine Fickert and her team have been outstanding in looking after me, I do not believe my civil doctors would have been as thorough and do believe they would have caught the possibly of cancer until it was very aggressive and possibly terminal at the time of discovery.
Jeanine and her team all have been so thorough and so complete in looking after me all the way through, and I cannot say enough good things she and her team had done for me. She is my choice for the best Doctor I have every had and wish I had here years ago. She is the GREATEST.
I have seen numerous medical doctors in my life before but never had any of them go through a checkup as thorough as Jeanine and her team did that day. Checked my health and noted a couple sores I had and asked how long they had been there. I said over 6 months and I had another one on my chest also. She put an order for me to see tele-dermatology to look and prescribe meds for that.
I’m sure I spent over an hour with her, she reviewed my medicines and ultrasound my urinal bladder and prescribed a med to help me empty more so I would not have to go to the restroom as often. After that I went down to tele-derm and a nurse took photos of sore spots, and she noticed that my left nipple was black and took a photo of that as well. After that I went home.
A few days later I received meds by tele-derm and a request for a biopsy of my left nipple. I showed up as requested and the nurse took a sample from the nipple and sent to the lab for analysis. A week later I get a call telling me the analysis was not conclusive and need to go to Inland imaging for a better study. Inland Imaging studied both breast areas and sent them to the VA. Inland imaging saw a possible problem in the right breast and recommend a biopsy as soon as possible, which was done and performed quickly. The pathology report was sent to the VA for follow up.
In the meantime the VA contacted a Breast Surgeon to be my Dr for these procedures while we were waiting for the final pathology report to get there and to the Dr as well. The VA team scheduled her before I had the pathology report completed in anticipation of the report which said I had a cancer condition, my civilian doctors would put out an order for a request and it takes weeks to get the provider several weeks to hear from them and then several weeks to see them to get a report back to my doctor team, but the VA team has always been looking forward and getting things scheduled in case I may need and it is working, and I cannot thank them enough. They are outstanding.
The cancer doctor met with me and we reviewed the process. She gave me 3 choices, one was a little surgery and oncology and radiation for a time to start, the second choice was a little more surgery and oncology for a time, the third recommendation was mastectomy, which if done may relieve me of further cancer for some time if not for the rest of my life, she did say I may want to have checkup 6 months to a year apart to see that I stayed cancer free. We are scheduling surgery sometime this month.
The point I'm making is Jeanine Fickert and her team have been outstanding in looking after me, I do not believe my civil doctors would have been as thorough and do believe they would have caught the possibly of cancer until it was very aggressive and possibly terminal at the time of discovery.
Jeanine and her team all have been so thorough and so complete in looking after me all the way through, and I cannot say enough good things she and her team had done for me. She is my choice for the best Doctor I have every had and wish I had here years ago. She is the GREATEST.