Dr. Milagros Santiago, MD

"Very good Doctor!"

"Great Dr. Very caring and does great work!!"

"20 years ago, I took my one year old son, Justin to the county hospital for help with his labored breathing. They treated him as an asthma patient and sent him home multiple times. He wasn't getting better. Then my mother told me to take him to a hospital that specialized in Children. That's where we met Dr. Santiago. She quickly decided not to treat him for asthma and got an MRI for him. There she discovered a mass growing in his trachea. It was growing so large that it was not only interfering with his breathing, but also large enough to affect his heart. In short order she arranged for surgeons to remove the growth and investigated how it happened to grow in him. It turns out that a few months prior he choked on peas at daycare. It apparently was being covered by his body's protective process by covering the pea with flesh. Dr. Santiago has a different way of seeing problems and she saved my sons life. Today, Justin is 21 years old and is serving in the USNavy. He is married and now has a nearly one year old of his own. All thanks to Dr. Santiago. I'll never be able to repay her and I'll always be indebted. I hope these words matter to someone who needs to know. Most Sincerely, Monika Shannon"