Ellen M. Harpole, MD

"I will be changing doctors. Was not a great experience. She has zero bedside manner. I have had several visits with her hoping it would be better as finding or switching ob gyn is difficult, but definitely switching. She is rude and belittles you every chance she gets. This last time she could not get my cervix to open for my Pap smear and as she shoved it in told me if I wasn’t so overweight this wouldn’t be so difficult. Probably true, but i got the point, as she mentioned my weight 10 times. Any concern I brought up, she made me feel stupid for asking. Last time I left in tears. This time I vowed I’d never go back."

"My wife is in the hospital as I am typing this. My wife is pregnant with our first child(my 4th) It is early in the pregnancy (7 weeks) and she cant stop throwing up, cant keep anything in her system, so naturally she gets scared and comes in. First time she was in figured out one of her meds was the wrong dose. ( I'll give her that one) but now my wife is back in and the vomiting is worse. Thus time the staff here isn't able to get things under control. Dr harpole is trying to say is psychological and my wife need to go to crosspointe. Crosspoint said no she doesn't need to be here. Now I find out the staff has been withholding the medication that she needs. DO NOT SEE THIS "DOCTOR""

"Very rude. I asked her about hormone imbalance, because I have trouble losing weight, and she lied and said there was no way to test that. She told me that I might need to lower my calorie intake to 1000. I mentioned cortisol and she said if I wanted to get into the "weird ones" I'd have to talk to someone else. She said she didn't know where everyone is coming up with " this hormone imbalance thing ". And that she's 55 and if she wants to lose five pounds, she has to eat almost nothing. Will never be seeing her, again."

"I had my oldest back in November of 2019. The first visit I seen Harpole she told me it was illegal to not get a pap smear while pregnant. She was aware I had been recently SAed. I felt forced into an exam I now know via Dr John Reid isn't even a requirement. Throughout my first pregnancy with Harpole I was weight shamed, discriminated against and lied to constantly. During my induction my pitocin was maxed out 3 times, water broken after only 2 hours of the pitocin, nearly ending in an emergency csection because I wasn't progressing quick enough for Harpole. She also completely lied to me about what the internal monitor for baby is, saying it was a sticker. My monitor happened to have a malfunction while being placed so Harpole was forced to hold my legs in the butterfly position while I was laboring, unmedicated at the time. I have since had another baby in 2022, Dr John Reid being the doctor throughout the pregnancy and delivery. We opted for a csection because I felt like I couldn't go through the natural delivery process again due to the trauma HARPOLE caused me. I would NEVER recommend this "doctor" to anybody. Please seek out any other doctor, this one shouldn't even be in practice anymore."

"I have had two babies with her, chose Dr Harpole based solely off the positive reviews in 2017. But now I know she is the most insincere doctor. She is knowledgeable, but very cold and has absolutely no bedside manner. Her nurse is just as bad, literally laughed on the phone with other nurses in the background while telling me I had lost my baby. I have since switched to another doctor & hopefully things look up from here."