Ontario
Ottawa
Family Medicine
active
76710
male
9
Fluent in English
Hospital privileges:
Pembroke Regional Hospital (Pembroke)
Queensway Carleton Hospital (Ottawa)
Registered as Independent Practice (from 07 Jul 2004)
Specialty Family Medicine (18 Jul 2003)
Independent Practice (from 07 Jul 2004)
Registered on 07 Jul 2004
Graduated at The University of Western Ontario in 2001
Specialty Family Medicine (18 Jul 2003)
Hospital privileges:
Pembroke Regional Hospital (Pembroke)
Queensway Carleton Hospital (Ottawa)
Postgraduate Training:
PostGrad Yr 1 at The University of Western Ontario - Family Medicine (01 Jul 2001-30 Jun 2002)
PostGrad Yr 1 at The University of Western Ontario - Family Medicine (01 Jul 2002-31 Jul 2002)
PostGrad Yr 2 at The University of Western Ontario - Family Medicine (01 Aug 2002-31 Jul 2003)
PostGrad Yr 3 at University of Ottawa - Family Medicine (Emergency Medicine) (01 Jul 2007-30 Jun 2008)
Gopalan Medicine Professional Corporation
Queensway Carleton Hospital
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Bhaskar Santhana Gopalan has received 3 rating(s) and 3 review(s), resulting in an average rating of 2.75 on a scale from 1 to 5. The overall rating for this medical doctor is not bad.
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Anonymous visitor
I brought my daughter to emergency at the QCH, where she was seen by Dr. Gopalan. He was not interested in getting the appropriate/necessary information to even begin diagnosing my daughter's medical issue. He needs to stop making assumptions and start listening to people if he is going to do his job well.
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Steve
Dr. Gopalan is a caring and knowledgeable physician that was able to assess and diagnose an issue and put me on a path to resolution that previous Dr's failed to do.
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Diana
Dr. Gopalan saw me in the Queensway-Carleton hospital on a Sunday. The reason for my visit was persistent asthma-like night cough. Before making the visit to the hospital, I had been seen by 2 doctors in the preceding 5 days but their anti-cold medications didn't work. I desperately sought help because 2 days later I was going on a trip to an air-polluted Asian region. Dr. Gopalan checked my lungs (they were clean) but didn't bother to check my throat, ears and nose, which is a manadatory procedure for a patient with respiratory complaints. When I asked if I could be tested for asthma, Dr. Gopalan said "we don't do it here, you have to go to your family doctor or some walk-in clinics". To me it was strange that a reputable hospital couldn't perform an asthma test. I mentioned my upcoming travel to a polluted region after which Dr. Gopalan became very irritated and said "I am sorry that you are going there but nothing I can do. Why did you come to seek help just now?" I told him that I had visited 2 doctors in the past 5 days with no result and I urgently needed some remedy to fight that exhausting cough or at least exclude or confirm asthma. Dr. Gopalan talked to me in a very irritated manner claiming that emergency department is for life-threatening conditions and I should go and see my family doctor (who doesn't work Sundays). He sent me to perform an X-ray and even didn't let me to change (I was wearing a hospital gown in the cubicle) so I had to walk into the public area wearing that hospital gown with half-opened back. Quite humiliating experience. He prescribed me a cough-supressing medicine - the Hycodan syrop. When I asked if this medication was available in the form of tablets he said 'no, syrop only'. Later, in the pharmacy I learned that Hycodan was available in the form of tablets. Dr. Gopalan is rude, inconsiderate and unhelpful. I will contact the hospital's patient relations unit about this case.
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