Bruce Krieger's Online Review Report Card

I agree with LungMasterRRT. Dr Krieger is the kindest most compassionate knowledgeable intensivist I’ve ever met. I would not allow myself to be taken care of by anyone else outside of Dr. Krieger Dr. McMillin and Dr. Blanco. This is a phenomenal team. I do not agree with what the initial reviewer stated. Worked side by side with Dr. Krieger for 3 years. I never once saw him act the way that this first reviewer portrayed him. Hands down one of the best intensivists I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with.

I have worked side by side next to this man for 10+ years and he is a Fantastic Critical Care Physician. Very Compassionate and caring toward his CoWorkers and Patients not only on the ICU but the whole Hospital. Dr Krieger is the Doctor I would ask for God Forbid if something ever happened to any of my Family Members.

In terms of his private practice I cannot review that as I did not experience it. As the intensivist at Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville I hold him responsible for my mothers passing. My mother was alert and in good condition merely awaiting transfer to a more local facility we dont live in Jacksonville when she entered his care. First a colleague of his does a procedure without consent and using a medication that it was already charted she was allergic to with this procedure she has a bad reaction to it and was left unconscious. Then Krieger attempts to cover it up for him. Trying to blame her condition as a result of a disease that even by the CDCs standards is rare in the U.S. Apparently the severity of this disease also varied from extremely contagious to not all contagious. When I questioned him about what the CDC says he said they dont know what theyre talking about. After this I requested a second opinion multiple times too and was refused with the explanation that he is the director of the CCU and I am not allowed to question him. The only people he did allow to offer second opinions are friends and students of his who would not preform any tests but just tell me how great Krieger is and how I should respect him as he taught in Miami. He also apparently had no knowledge of what medications she was on. As I had questioned about the use of Propofol on her he was insistent that she was not on it. When i told him to go look at her IV he saw that she was and then dismissed as the nurse probably prescribed it thinking that I dont know that nurses dont prescribe things. If this wasnt bad enough he also admitted to intentionally inducing kidney failure. Saying that when he was learning medicine that is what they did to patients they deemed terminal because it was a relatively quick and painless way to die. He knew that I would not suspend treatment on my mom and he felt that would be the best way to not have me make a decision if it came to that. He later lied and said I authorized him to do it. The icing to this experience would have to be the night she passed. I had ordered a nephrologist to come in see if he could try and fix the mess that Krieger caused. Krieger sent him away multiple times and I was eventually told they were suspending all treatment. My mom did not have a DNR and I was the power of attorney so I went to question this. I was told that Krieger is superseding my authority as power of attorney and forcing to not only end treatment but a DNR order on her as well. Needless to say I was furious and I demanded he come up there. He refused. Finally after causing a commotion I was told treatment would be resumed by the nurses and the current doctor on staff because of the confusion and that Krieger would call me to straighten things out. This was a very different attitude as prior Krieger refused all phone calls saying that he doesnt do phone calls. That night I left and headed home it was a four drive. Halfway through around midnight I get a call from Krieger who is trying to argue about removing the DNR and resuming treatment. After firmly insisting he relents and agrees claiming that as soon as he hangs up with me hes going to give her her medication and resume treatment. His last words to me were I dont think shell code any time soon but heh heh she can be unpredictable like that. I hung up on him thinking he was just angry and being rude. Two and a half hours later I get a call from the night nurse saying my mom has coded and theyre going to try and revive her. About a half hour after that they pronounced her dead. When I asked about what happened I was told that she coded and that in was in fact the second time she coded. Previously she had coded a little after midnight but was revived. I went up there that morning to talk to him and find out what happened and he had conveniently gone on a week vacation.

I cant speak about his private practice as I have no experience with it. As the Intensivist at Memorial Hospital his philosophy is essentially if youre over sixty youve lived long enough. Its bad enough to be like that in the general sense but to go out of your way to cause someone to die is even worse. I hold this man responsible for my mothers death. My mother entered entered his care in good condition she was alert conscious and merely awaiting transport to a more local facility as we do not live in Jacksonville. The problem started after a college of his preformed a procedure on my mother without consent and using a medication that it was documented she had an allergy to. She had a negative reaction and lost consciousness which she never regained. Following the incident Krieger did everything in his power to cover it up. Blaming my mothers condition on a rare disease that doesnt even occur in the U.S. If that wasnt bad enough he admitted to intentionally inducing kidney failure in my mother. For some reason he had given my mother high doses of Propofol and after a bit her kidney function began to decline. When I questioned him on this he told me she wasnt on Propofol when I showed him the IV in her room he told me the nurse must of prescribed it. After that he told me how inducing kidney failure is actually good thing since its not a painful way to die and that when he was learning medicine they did that to the terminally ill. After this I demanded second opinions of which I was refused multiple times citing that I am not allowed to question the director of the CCU and that he is brilliant. Any second opinions I did receive did no tests at all and simply just stated Kriegers brilliance. I ordered a Nephrologist to come in and try and fix the mess and Kreiger ordered him away multiple times. The icing on the cake came on my mothers final night. Her vitals were going crazy and they refused to do anything for her. When I questioned this I was told Krieger had suspended all treatment on my mom and that I had agreed. I told the charge nurse this was not the case and she informed me that he also had placed a DNR on her. Totally against her wishes a point that was established every time he decided to send someone in to talk me into it. My mothers wishes were to keep fighting and as her power of attorney and son I informed them of that. I was told that Krieger is superseding my authority and her wishes. After I caused a scene and demanded they fix that and put it back to what it was they did. At Midnight on the way home I get a call from Krieger which was surprising since he previously claimed he doesnt do phone calls still trying to convince me to let him pull the plug. I again refused and he told me he would be going in there to administer her medication. His last words to me were I dont think shell code anytime soon but heh heh she can be unpredictable. I hung up on him thinking he was just being rude. At about 3AM Im awoken by a phone call from hospital telling me my mother had coded and they were trying to revive her. As I was getting ready to go down there I received a second phone call saying she passed. When I asked what had happened they said she had coded earlier in the night but they were able to revive her. I asked when and they told me it was a little after midnight. When I went up there to see her i demanded to speak to Krieger only to find out he conveniently went on a week long vacation.

I was in Critical Care at Memorial Hospital one year ago. This doctor was very uncaring and rude. Seemed to care less if I lived or not.

if this is doctor who was at mount Sinai in miami about 10 years ago stay far away. he diagnosed me with lung cancer ad told me I had a year to live. he turned my life upside down for three months almost had my lung removed and all I had was histoplasmosis ATOTAL MISDIAGNOESES

Best Bedside Manner of any Physician ever Cares about his patients

is fast to assume that when people are old that it would be better to just let them die

he lied to his patient power of attorney and told him he would recover would not be bed ridden in a nursing home... this patient is currently under hospice care and doctor Kreger cant even return a phone call to his power of atoSTAY FAR AWAY FROM DR KREGER AT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL UNLESS YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH.