Lisa G. Carkner's Online Review Report Card

I’m more impressed with Dr. Carkner with every visit. She’s truly concerned about my overall health, not just her expertise. She thorough, as is her staff, and in her concerns for my past surgeries, she found important blood work numbers not related to my heart, but my liver! She immediately sent this info over to my GI dr with notes concerning these asking for more in-depth testing. I wish all drs took such care. She’s 100% in my book!

I had to push my 20 yr old in a wheelchair to her office. She recognized that my daughter needed to see an endocrinologist based on her labs. She stated numerous times that she was not one and there was not one in her practice. She saw her labs and we told her that my daughter could not even stand. Yet she ordered tests instead of advising me to take her to the ER. After looking online I realized that my daughter needed help asap. At the ER it was discovered that she had a very rare disease called Addisons. She was in a crisis and near kidney failure. If my daughter had went for the tests that Carkner ordered it most certainly would have harmed her. Carkner should have advised that my daughter be seen asap in the ER. She saw that she could not walk. She did not seem alarmed at all. She was not compassionate either. I should not have had to realize on my own that my daughter needed emergency care asap. Thankful for the info from the internet. It saved my daughter's life.

Dr. Carkner (formerly Umphrey) is deserving of recognition on this website. Having spent the majority of my professional life as a hospital executive of a major health system working with many hospital-based and private practice physicians, including recruitment of physicians on occasion, I can identify quality physicians. For my own care, I will collaborate with my primary care physician in choosing a specialist, verify state issued medical license, review where the physician attended medical school and did their internship, residency, and fellowship as applicable, review various medically related websites like Vitals.Com, hospital affiliations and websites, office or group practice websites, et al. I will ask health care consumers and seek input from patient caregivers and physicians. I take all that is learned from this research and apply the Pareto Rule with the objective of identifying those physicians in the top 20th percentile. Within the large cardiology group practice she is affiliated with, Dr. Carkner is in the top 20th percentile. If you select her or have been referred to her, you will receive exceptional cardiac care within the limits and structure of what can be done in a large group practice with a heavy patient volume. It is likely she will meet and exceed your expectations if you, as a patient, are realistic. Dr. Carkner exceeded my expectations. Do not expect perfection. No physician or patient, for that matter, is perfect. That is not humanly possible. I scored Dr. Carkner on the overall scale with a 5.