This review may save your life.
Let me start by saying the nurse aids in this clinic are BEYOND AMAZING!! Understanding, caring, compassionate. That said…. If you choose to go to the Metairie clinic location for care, I would HIGHLY suggest avoiding Sarah Logrande, NP. Your life may depend on it.
After being treated at this clinic for several years, solely by her, on a weekly or bi-monthly basis, and never changing the medication I was taking they had listed in my patient file, she prescribed an antibiotic to me that is well known for having negative cardiac interactions with the one and only medication I take on a daily basis. After taking the antibiotic for two days I was having such bad bouts of heart racing that I went to my primary care physician and after doing an EKG they had me rushed to the emergency room. My heart rate’s QT interval was so high, I was at risk of sudden death via a cardiac seizure at any moment. (Basically where your heart just stops beating.) Thankfully, after a five day inpatient stay in the hospital I was back on my feet and my heart eventually returned to its normal rhythm.
What did Nurse Practitioner Sarah have to say when I saw her after my hospital stay? “Oh, I thought you told me you stopped taking that medication. My mistake; I could have sworn you said that.” 😳🤦🏻♀️ Apparently she doesn’t think it pertinent to look at a patient’s file before prescribing medications to them. She just goes off of her memory, even if they’re memories she invented herself.
Perhaps I should have researched the antibiotic myself before filling the prescription and taking it. I guess I just thought that the prescribing practitioner would have already done that. Lesson learned. I’m just thankful I was able to get in and see my primary care physician that day (an actual doctor; not a nurse practitioner) and was able to get the emergency care needed before any permanent heart damage had occurred.