JOSEPH F MITCHEL, DO – NPI #1609874627
Cardiovascular Disease

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• 10/17/2025

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  Review for JOSEPH F MITCHEL

  I awoke on the operating table at the shortly after the conclusion of heart surgery. I didn't know who he was (at that moment) but Dr. Mitchell looked at me and asked, 'How are you doing?' I tried to reply but only a garbled mish-mash came out. I remember thinking, 'Wow! Must be the anethesia!' but I saw a worried look on Dr. Mitchell's face. He asked me 2 or 3 more times and each time, I realized my thoughts were clear-and I was wide awake, but I was inarticulate! Turns out I'd suffered a stroke. I was wheeled down for tests. Being strong willed, I was able to force myself to speak albeit slowly within 2 hrs. Several Medical personnel subsequently came to my room over the next day or so to see me. I was even shown a CT Scan & Xray taken earlier showing that I had suffered a stroke. At some point, I believe on the 2nd or 3rd day while lying on a hospital bed in my room, Some guy walked by in a white med coat who as he walked by, I realized he was looking at me. He stopped and said something fairly loudly-but I could not understand, so he backed up, entered my rooms dorrway and said, 'YOU won't be back! Your heart is SO shot if anything else happens, there's nothing could be done for you anyway! Then he briefly told me how he'd 'dug and dug at an older bypassed artery from a previous Quad Bypass I'd had 4-1/2 years earlier, but had to give up'... I remember thinking as I'd schooled myself on my own condition pretty intricately a few years earlier, and I clearly remember thinking that THIS 'digging & digging' at an old bypass-had most liely caused the issue of the stroke, probably breaking up old plaque which then got in my bloodstream! Then Dr. Mitchell again reiterated my heart was 'so shot' and my E.F. 'so low' he was sending me home with a relatively new invention -a 'Heart Vest' and said it might help keep me alive a few months.' Well, 2-1/2 days later when I was released-they sent me home late at night with the 'vest' that had too many 'sensors & alarms' that too easily went off-as well as a large control module that strapped to my waist! Took that thing off within an hour of getting home realizing I needed sleep more than anything! As I had an appointentt the next morning with my 'actual Cardiologist' I'd been with since my 1st heart attack, I told him I 'could not wear the vest as it was alway alarming and I could not sleep with it or the bulky control box' and while he said he'd prefer I wear it-the stress it was causing and the interference w/sleep was also bad. Anyway, just a few months from now? I'll be starting the beginning of the 11th year since Dr. Mitchell told me in a sneer, that 'I would not be coming back & had a bad prognosis for any more than a few months!' I remember saying 2-words to him! And I am NOT giving him any credit for my still being here because it was ME and my long time Cardiologist that did all the work. I'm in my 70th year, and with half a working heart am on nothing but low-dose aspirin, a healthy diet and staying active. My most recent visit w/my own Cardiologist showed a perfect BP, perfect Oxg, perfect pulse and while my EF is low? I operate pretty normally on a day to day basis considering I have a full disability. Yes, I have 'off days' where I've worn out reserves and I have to relax to recuperate, but the heart is a muscle and if one lets it be technically 'unused'.. it will falter faster. In short? I think at that period in his life anyway, that Dr. Mitchell had a TERRIBLE bed-side manner. The few people who know this story over the years, were always shocked by what he said as well as his attitude at that time.

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