Anne E. Winkler's Online Review Report Card

I have been her patient 28 years. She cares about patient. Knowledgeable. Best I know.

Unfortunately, Dr. Winkler was quite rude and condescending from the start of my appointment. I have never experienced this sort of treatment in a professional type of setting and hope to never again. I will not be returning.

Dr Winkler and her entire staff are fantastic. I drive from Springfield to Bolivar just so I can be her patient. She is excellent at listening and excelllent at looking for solutions! I would trust her with any family members or friends.

Was very rude and unprofessional. Interrupted constantly, didn't really listen which was proved in her report, didn't explain a thing, and didn't even try to help. I would never go back or recommend her.

I would never see her again for any reason! She interrupted me in the middle of almost every sentence and tell me to tell her more. Uh I would of if she would let me finish. She was constantly typing when I did get to type, in which case she was obviously only heard pieces of what I said which was proved when I read her report on me and most of it was wrong or she only wrote enough of it to make me look stupid. There were a couple of instances where I told her that some of the tests done for certain conditions weren't the right ones/were done wrong. She agreed with me, even cited the right tests that should be done, but then put in my report that those the tests done were negative so there was no concern. Some comments were very rude and condescending. She ended her report with a recommendation that I be sent to a University Hospital where they specialize in more rare conditions and that she believed I only had fibromyalgia and significant psychologic overlay. So she believes nothing is wrong and I'm crazy but that I need to go to a doctor to review for more rare conditions? Kind of contradicts herself there doesn't it? I respect someone who says that you need to see someone else because it's is past their specialty but I have no respect for someone that doesn't listen and then labels someone crazy for the same thing.

Dr. Winkler has always been wonderful with me when I have gone to her for injections. She is so good I used to drive over an hour to see her even though there were plenty of Dr's in her field closer to me.

Where I able to rate with 0 stars I would. No one should waste their time, energy, or money to see this "doctor" that I can only imagine obtained an actual degree by using crayons and paper towels, because there is certainly no school that would be willing to endorse this kind of joke. I have had a virtually endless list of health problems during the course of my life, and seen many doctors frustrated when they can only tell me "there's *something* wrong but I have no idea what." I have seen some of the best and probably worst doctors across the country, and she falls into the category of being one of the worst. She refused to allow anyone in the room with me, physically "shooing" my mother and partner out like children, spoke to me the way one would a three year old, has no understanding of how to do a differential, and that's the start of it. The first couple of questions she asked, height and weight, she took notes on, after that she simply seemed bored. Her physical exam was rushed, incomplete, and she didn't even give me time to respond or react to any stimulus. Despite having more than 10 years of history matching symptoms and lab results indicating Sjögren's, she concluded that I "probably just have fibromyalgia and IBS." I've spent most of my life studying in the medical field, my partner has fibro. This woman has no concept of how to place objective symptoms with subjective symptoms to form an actual diagnosis; though to be fair forming any opinion based on subjective symptoms would have required that she listen to me- which happened at no point. I rarely got to finish a sentence, eventually stopped even trying to respond since she didn't allow me time for even a "yes" or "no" reply, and on the rare occasion that she did let me speak her reply always began with the phrase "No, what you mean is..." I am not poorly educated, I have spent more time seeing doctors in a matter of years than most people would in a lifetime, and that is on top of studying to enter the medical field. I know exactly what I mean, and I said what I meant. I have no interest in spending months waiting to get an appointment and then driving over an hour to see a "doctor" that is going to tell me what I physically feel according to her whims. She told me that any random 100 people off the street would test with more definitive lab results than mine. Her condescension knew no bounds during that debacle of an appointment.

most rude and uncaring attitude. Left her office in tears. apparently angry and impatient about her profession. Also talked rudely about her patients to her staff and they told me what she said about me. She and her entire staff unprofessional. Went so far as denying she gave me a prescription the visit prior, and i have the prescription to prove it.

I have been going to Dr. Winkler since 1992 for RA. The first time I met her she listened to everything I had to say. She is very caring and attentive to my needs. She now has me on meds that have me in remission.

Dr Winkler is so amazing! She is thorough, attentive, and kind. I would recommend her to anyone.