Vatsala Sastry's Online Review Report Card

I think these Healthcare workers are a special breed. After reading some of the poorer reviews, I was shocked at how sensitive people are. There's no such thing as a sterile environment when you're treating dozens of people a day through picc lines HOWEVER the nurses do their jobs when sterilizing any equipment they touch. Especially the entire line going into our bodies. We live in an oversensitive society nowadays so don't listen to the negative comments and think they're not overreacting or hypochondriacs

Look up Sastry's public record on the FL Department of Health website and you’ll see she has 3 deaths on her hands. Go to: apps.fldfs.com/PLCR/Search/MPLClaim.aspx, then input her name in the fields: Insured Doctor's Last Name/First Name. We're lucky my mom survived. Sastry caused her heart failure by dosing her with a cocktail of last-resort antibiotics that she didn’t even need. It’s all about the insurance billing – some of these antibiotics are $500 each, and my mom was being given three at a time through a PICC line into her heart. Sastry said my mom needed “5 to 6 weeks” of daily infusions; on day 10 she suffered heart failure. Sastry gave her Levaquin, which has a black-box warning that it can cause heart failure in patients with a-fib. My mom has a-fib, and it’s noted throughout her medical records. Sastry uses her “staff privileges” at Oak Hill Hospital, where she was assigned to my mom, to funnel patients to her filthy (literally) Suncoast Infusion Center upon their discharge. The hospital record clearly shows my mom did not have an infection, but Sastry blatantly lied in her clinic records, stating my mom had a bone infection. I reported all this to the CEO of Oak Hill Hospital, Mikey Smith, yet Sastry still has staff privileges. Patients beware.

The is the 2nd visit with the doctor at this office. Waited over an hour for a picc line. Must have seen 10 patients that came in after us and left before us. Staff kept saying you guys will be next... but they kept calling other people. Asked if there was another place we can go to get the picc line in but they gave us the run around. Asked to speak to the office manager and they claimed they did not have one. Staff there are very unprofessional.

at a medical place you should not be understaffed

Wait time is terrible . Don't order supplies you need..

She is a caring, hard working woman with a smile. Hard working staff as well.

Dr was very adamant about putting me on a pick line in first visit to the office even before blood work was done after the pick line was installed I went for treatments every morning I got anabiotic‘s I explained that there was discomfort in the arm and I was told that it was just probably from having the line installed after six days I complained again I told exact same thing Dr really didn’t give me no explanation on what exactly we were treating and how long I would be on that day seven came where my bandage was supposed to be changed it was red swelled, bruising, and had blisters. I explained I wanted the pick line out the nurse took the pick line out and told me I needed to go get an ultrasound I went to the hospital to get an ultrasound and have been admitted for a blood clot that is close to my heart and lungs which is called a DVT blood clot I do not recommend getting a pick line and I will not return to this doctor or this facility they don’t listen to your concerns I am now on bed rest and blood thinners for the next 6 months. Would not recommend this

Dr Sastry is a DANGEROUS INCOMPETENT Dr. She is all about the $&&. I worked home health care for many years and her reputation was abysmal. My son has a port that ends in his heart. This should be handled with care and STERILE technique. The office DOES NOT have the necessary supplies for a central line. This pits him at risk for a blood infection. He tells me the office is dirty and the nurses do not use sterile technique. I want him to find a competent Dr as soon as possible.

9Yrs ago she took care of my stepson who almost died from a infected breastplate, he had the complete breastplate removed and he was treated by her for one year and infection free. My wife is now being treated for a major infection of her rt foot, she is Diabetic and almost lost her foot and is on the road to recovery. She's one of the best wound care professionals around

Although you might not feel "special" because she is a very busy doctor, her medical care has saved my life and saved me from unessary surgeries. Her attention is worth not having all the smoke and mirrors.