Dr. Ravindra Puttaswamaiah

I highly recommend Dr. Ravindra Puttaswamaiah. He patiently listened to all my concerns, explained everything clearly, and made the consultation comfortable with his thorough analysis and good sense of humor. He is very ************** experienced, and cautious without over-medicating.

Dr. Ravindra Puttaswamaiah was very approachable and explained my problem clearly. He avoided suggesting unnecessary tests or medicines, making the consultation feel good and trustworthy.

I took my Mom to visit doctor Ravindra. She had been suffering from pain on her left hip to toe since a long time. On the day of visit, she was in severe pain and I visited the hospital with prior appointment. My mom wasn't in a position to sit or stand due to pain. The Nurse told I have to go inside doctor's cabin after 2 patients, so we were waiting anxiously. However, the doctor has a woman asistant who comes out to call patients every time. I am sure, she follows no appointment order and calls inside people to see the doctor, whomever she likes. So we could see that people came in 5 mins ago and met the doctor, but we waited like for 1.5 hours. Meanwhile my mom was facing much more trouble due to pain, so I confronted the woman. She went to see the doctor inside, then came out and told " doctor said to go to emergency dept, if you can't wait". I was totally shocked at such unprofessional behaviour from staff of Columbia Asia. We waited for 1.5 hours and when I demanded my Mom to be checked, the lady comes and tells us to go to emergency. If that is the case, then why wa-ste our 1.5 hours and tell us that our no. is after 2 patients? Also, while sitting there and observing closely, I could see that the lady would come out and call South Indian patients irrespective of their appointment time to visit the doctor first. Afterwards, she calls other patients. **** * ******* ******Finally, when we met the doctor, he did all check up and read reports and suggested "Microdiscectomy" surgery for my Mom. As it was a shock for us, I asked him to give us 2 days time to discuss and take the call. So the doctor asked that lady to take my number and call on Saturday w.r.t the surgery decision. Ironically, she never called in-spite of noting down my number at the doctors cabin and I didn't have any other contact to speak personally to the doctor. Anyways, I was furious with the behaviour of such callous staff of Columbia Asia.

I visited Dr. Puttuswamy on 16.3.17. Told him about the history of injury and said 'i believe its the same ligament issue'. He barely examined my foot & asked for x-ray done. Said its just a foot sprain. Rest for 2 weeks and it will be fine. Also he laughed at me when i asked for wheel chair assistance saying 'you worry a lot, just walk home and relax.