CU Medicine Family Medicine - Park Meadows — Local services in Lone Tree

I have been going to Dr. Knepshield @ Ranchview Family Medicine for the last several years. This review is just for Dr. Knepshield as I am leaving a separate review for the overall practice related to the front desk services, nurses, techs and overall Practice rating exclusive of the other doctors.

As a 70-year-old male patient I have been seeing Dr. Knepshield for approximately 4.5 years. I would put him in the top 3 doctors that I have used as primary and secondary professionals in the management of my healthcare throughout my adult life. He has a very broad level of experience that is also extremely deep in many areas and he’s able to analyze and make proper recommendations for continued health maintenance and improvement. He really cares about his patients. He’s extremely smart, “fairly” easy to communicate with and he’s a straight shooter, he tells you like it is in a positive manner. Most importantly, unlike many other physicians I’ve been to in the past, he will not try and analyze everything at a detail level if it requires a specialist outside of his training and experience. He will do the initial analysis but if it’s something he feels you need a specialist he will recommend 1-2 quickly and not try and solve all medical problems for which is not trained. Importantly, he also follows up on recommendations from other specialists to make sure that I’m satisfied with the specialists’ work and reviews the results of the specialist with me during my next appointments with him. He will also reach out to other specialist that I’m seeing if he needs more information on their healthcare recommendations, which I appreciate very much given some of my health issues do require other specialists outside of his care expertise.

Unfortunately due to issues with the support staff and the overall management of the RVFM practice (for which I am leaving a separate review) I would continue to see Dr. Knepshield. However, I recently moved to another practice and while I would prefer to have stayed with Dr. Knepshield, if he were to leave RVFM and open his own or join a top practice I’d return in a moments notice. I believe that’s the best recommendation one can give to a doctor after multiple years of positive treatment & service. I wish him the best of luck in his...

I have been going to RVFM for 16 years, well before the practice was sold by Drs. Piel and Post to Dr. Garrison and if anything the practice is more outstanding now that it has ever been. Once you reach an advanced age you have definitely seen your share of doctors and once I found this practice and then Dr. Garrison there has never been a need to look any further. I support this practice completely – but that is my opinion.

It is unfortunate to see the negative reviews for RVFM since they are one sided and only reviews of the practice and not of the patient writing the post. As a patient, we have as much responsibility for strengthening the relationship as physicians do - doctors are human and every relationship is a 2 way street. My relationship with my doctor is about my health, of course, but it's also about mutual trust, communication and understanding which is freely given at RVFM every day. It is troubling to read that patients feel RVFM does not respect their time, but conversely are you respecting theirs? As a patient, we have an “appointment”, not an open invitation to stay as long as we want.

It is also sad to read these because it is evident that there are those out there who in all their other relationships they strive to be polite, use good manners, listen, be honest and respectful but the minute they walk into their doctors office all of that goes out the window and they forget how to be human. Please consider that your relationship with your doctor is just as important and requires just as much effort.

Ever heard the term, “walk a mile in their shoes…”? Some simple math demonstrates challenges faced by our Colorado PCPs. Our current population of 5.5 million people relies on 2500 PCPs. This means each full time PCP cares for ~2000 patients. If that PCP only sees each patient 1 time a year, that is 1 hour per patient per year. Doesn’t add up does it?

I will continue to recommend Dr. Garrison and her practice. She is truly a shining example of...

This place was amazing when Dr. Heather Cribbs was here. However after she left it’s gone down hill. I took my 9 month old in yesterday because she’s had a fever of 103-102 degrees and I just wanted to have her checked out. We saw Dr. Mennic who diagnosed her with an ear infection and sent in the anti biotics, no sooner did I get to the parking lot I got a call that my normal pharmacy was out of the medicine and I would have to drive further (this is not ranchviews fault) so I drive to the pharmacy, and I wait for it to be ready, as the pharmacist is giving me this she kept looking back and forth at my daughter and the medicine and said this is way to much for her. Let me call the drs after hour line and get it straightened out. So we are back to waiting. After about 45 mins the pharmacist says she will give me a call and to PLEASE NOT give my sick dr any of the Medicine until I hear back from her with the correct dose. An hour goes by and I hear nothing so I call the emergency line leave a very detailed message. I wait another hour and repeat the process. Still not hearing back. By the morning I still haven’t heard back so I give it one more phone call. No answer no call back. I call the appointment like and finally get to talk to the manager who says there phone must have had a problem, and they call in a new prescription for me (still haven’t heard from a dr around 830 am) so I call a different drs office and get an appointment. This dr sees my dr, checks her for the flu which is negative, strep negative, and then checks her ears NO EAR INFECTION. And had I given her the dose originally prescribed it would have been almost twice as much as someone her weight would have needed. I will never be back. I wonder how many other patients have been misdiagnosed...