Melissa A. Helman, MD FACOG

I have been a patient at Womancare for years and at week 16 of my second pregnancy had an appt with Dr. Helman. My first pregnancy had ended in a miscarriage at 10 weeks and this pregnancy was not going well either. I agreed to see Dr. Helman (she was not my primary dr. at this practice) since she is listed as a high-risk specialist. I had stopped bleeding two weeks earlier, but had begun leaking green fluid so I made an emergency appt and saw her. She said hello, listened for a fetal heartb...

From the moment i met her for my "surgery" to remove my 6 week old baby with a beating heart from my tube, it was awful. She stood in the curtain, did not come in and kept her hands on her hips. She kept yelling at me that there was nothing else I could do, even though I told her how terrified I was (never had surgery EVER) She then stated she didn't feel comfortable doing my surgery and ended up doing in 4 hours later because I ruptured and could have died (good job Dr Helman) after that she w...