Fairbrook Medical Clinic 1985 Startown Road, Hickory, NC 28602

"My family brought me to this clinic when I was 18 years old. I was very sick and TWO years later they still had not figured it out. I asked to be taken somewhere else, and in one week, had a diagnosis. I had numerous tumors on my reproductive system and needed surgery. Due to the time lapse the surgery was much more invasive. ALSO, my father continued to go there, despite my pleas. He complained to Dr. Kessel about pain in the area of his liver. The doc wrote it off as constipation even though my father had Crohn's disease and had frequent, often loose, bowel movements. A few months later the pain became worse and we took him to the hospital. He was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in his lungs and liver. Due to the time lapse, the cancer had spread to his lymph nodes. He died 28 days after his diagnosis. I will never, ever take any of my loved ones to this clinic and I would NEVER recommend that others go there. Please take your family or yourself somewhere else. A place where you will be heard and where the doctors and/or staff will do everything they can to make you well."