Andrea Kirsch, CRNP

Made me feel like my concerns were a burden to her. End of visit says she's late for a meeting. Ok? Very unprofessional... I'd never go to her again. I'll stick with the regular doctor I usually see or go to a different practice.

After feeling a lump on self exam, I called for an appt with my GYN who didn’t have any availability so I was offered an appt with Andrea, who the scheduler told me was an “expert”. Upon meeting Andrea & telling her that I felt a lump & noticed swelling under my armpit, she was not able to feel the lump. When I tried to show her where it was, she said I was “manhandling” my breast, I didn’t know how to give myself an exam & she “couldn’t bare to watch” me. She also said the swelling under my arm was fat. I asked her if she could feel a fibroadenoma I had in my other breast - when she couldn’t feel the fibroid, I had no confidence in her - she told me I was safe to wait 8 months for my next annual mammogram but I demanded a diagnostic mammogram. Andrea reluctantly agreed & said she couldn’t wait to tell me it was nothing. Three weeks later I was dx with breast cancer & in my lymph nodes. What Andrea said was unacceptable & unprofessional, & with her advice I would be stage 4.