Dr. Kimberly Cull suspended by medical board
Do you ever have those moments when you realize that you are indeed very blessed?
Dr. Cull was my wife’s physician and delivered both of our children. There were complications with Jameson’s birth but luckily both my wife and son were ok minus some bruising. In hindsight there were many people at the time questioning our choice in an Obstetrician. My wife had been with Dr. Cull for years and it just didn’t make sense for her to change based solely on rumor.
However, after our second child was born, the rumors became much louder and hard to ignore. She moved her practice more towards cosmetic procedures and at that time, my wife found a new Dr.
Now, here we are four years later and Dr. Cull has been suspended for drinking on the job as well as suggestions of drug use.
The full article is on the Columbus Dispatch web site.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/01/14/copy/missedbullet.ART_ART_01-14-10_B4_3CG9UJN.html
WOW! This is nuts. Kim delivered 3 of my 5 children. Each pregnancy was really hard and each birth had several complications. With my second child I wanted to be induced 5 days before christmas instead of on my january 1 due date. I jokenly told kim if she did it I would buy her a 40. She said ok and my daughter was delievered on my chosen due date and I did follow through with buying her the 40. I feel awful that I did that now knowing that she is suspended. I do feel that she was a danger to patients and she definately had a drinking problem 11 years ago when she delievered my children. I knew she didnt practice at grady anymore and moved her office to Powell but I did not know why. When my 3rd child was born she didnt have a heart beat and had her cord so wrapped around her neck that she was black for the first week of life. All her newborn pictures show a severely bruised face and neck from the cord. I am lucky my children are alive.
She did my abilation on Sept 25,2009. 2 hours late, now prepared, had me take 2 Dilaudid pain meds instead of 1 and tried to use the wrong needle when numbing me. My husband half carried me out of the office and that is about all I remember until late that night
DR. Cull delivered both of our boys in 2000 and 2001. Her ofice at the time was at Grady Memorial. But it was obvious Dr. Cull was losing her professioal ability and the staff got more unpleasent to deal with. Dr. Cull insisted that my wife only consider ceserian section delivery rather than vaginal birth. On our second child my wife was admitted for scheduled induced ceserian section birth at Saint Anns in Westerville. Dr Cull was nowhere to be seen as the staff began to prep for the procedure. D. Cull was notified and we were told she was on the way. Meanwhile our son slowly went into distress as he moved around and became breached to a point the baby was on its way. We waited almost 2 hours and the medical staff in the OB Ward showed obvious frustration with absense of Dr Cull. Our child then went into critical distress and warning lights and beeps sounded on the medical monitors. Our son’s heart beat was dropping. No Dr Cull in sight, so Staff went into emergency mode calling in Emergency medical staff. An emergency ceserian was being performed when they expedited the process as they discovered his cord wrapped around my son’ neck. Still, Dr Cull was nowhere to be seen 4 hrs after wife’s labor was induced at Saint Ann’s. Our follow up visits were diverted to her new office in Powell becaue her Delaware office closed. All those with patients with these kinds of malpractice stories should file suite and malpractice. Dr. Cull was a serious danger to patients and probably will get her medical license back and the community will be unaware. Heck, she’s probably in another state practicing.
We feel for you and had similar experiences. Both of our children were delivered at St Anns and it was obvious from the beginning that she wasn’t the staff’s favorite Dr. Our son, our first child was delivered vaginally barely. Because both my wife and I are tall, she suggested inducing 2 weeks early, but in the end it really made little difference. Our son was too big to be delivered safely vaginally and by the time, Dr. Cull and several other Drs managed to deliver him, he was badly bruised and I was white as a sheet. I truly thought that he was dead when they laid him on my wife’s chest. It wasn’t until the nurses asked me to come over that I realized that he was going to be OK. While both of our children are healthy, it is hard to look back and wonder how close we came to having a very different outcome.
My mon and I have gone to Dr. Cull for years and we both thought she behaved very frantic and scatter brained at times. I was also mis-diagnosed by her once, only upon a second exam by her assistant was I properly diagnosed. I clearly need to find a new obgyn, seeing as my prescriptions are no longer being refilled and sent to the pharmacy with no warning at all….but I want my medical records from the office, and have no way of getting a hold of anyone, the phone is disconnected! This is turning into the most unproffesuional experience I’ve ever encountered! How can I get my personal info back?
I have read that you can contact the Powell Police department to get your medical records. My wife is also very happy with Dr. Ann Wurst. She has offices in Dublin and Westerville. I don’t know if she is accepting new patients. Her Westerville office number is, (614) 268-8800.
I had Dr. Cull when I delivered my daughter in 2004. She was very impatiant with me and didn’t want to answer any of my questions. I wanted to know why she didn’t want to induce me. I was concerned because in 2001 my first born was born at 9 pounds and had a shoulder distotia and didn’t breath the first two minutes of his life. I just wanted her to explain to me why I didn’t need to be induced. I asked at the desk if she could just call me to explain. I would pay her for her time on the phone but she refused. Then I get a call from the secretary that they are going to induce me 2 weeks early. I still wanted to hear from the doctor to explain to me why now she wants to induce. I was worried she didn’t really put any thought into it. I never heard from her and I was so scared from my previous birth I went ahead with the induction. I was also induced with my first baby and the doctor I had then told me if I was ever induced again to tell the doctor that I do well being induced by the pill. Dr. Cull insisted I use the balloon method. That is when they pump a balloon full of air to manualy open the cervix. It was so painful. I can’t believe anyone uses this method. After 13 hours of labor. I still had not seen Dr. Cull. When it was time to push it took her 45 minutes to get to the hospital. I would have let the nurse deliver the baby but I was so scared about the shoulder distotia. When she finally got there the baby came out in a few pushes. Then Dr. Cull says “Well that was easy. I wish they were all that easy”. I couldn’t believe after the hell I just went through she would say that to me! I gave her a hell of a look but I didn’t say anything because she was in the process of stitching me up. I didn’t think it was beneath her to get revenge by doing a bad job. I also just gave birth to my daughter and didn’t want to ruin the moment any more than it was already. I so regretted having her for a doctor. It still bothers me to this day.
Holy cow, Mandy. Your story mirrors mine. I gave birth to my first child in 2002. She also scheduled an induction for me, used the balloon method (foley catheter, ouch,) and was nowhere to be seen. My baby was near crowning for 45 minutes. The nurses were annoyed with Dr. Cull for refusing to come. When she came in, she barely got seated as she said, “Now you can push.” I pushed the baby out on the first try and she remarked to me about how amazing that was because I was a first time mom and also commented about how she wishes they could all be that easy. Well, if you keep a mom waiting 45 minutes, she’s gonna get that sucker out! It took her forever to stitch me up that the anesthetic wore off and I was feeling the stitching. She also refused to address my severe hyperemesis. I was 30 lbs lighter than pre-pregnancy, right after giving birth. I was so sick. I switched to another OBGYN for my 2nd child, thankfully. That was also a high risk pregnancy due to complications of hyperemesis, but I got MUCH better care with another doc. Turns out the new doc couldn’t be at the birth, but he had a replacement there ready to go when I was. What a difference!
OMG!!!! I’m such in shock right now!!! I knew this pain that I have since 2006 was not normal!!!!
I went to Dr. Culls (or so called Dr.) office in feb 2006, when I found out we were expecting our first child. We were due in early September 2006. Everything seemed nice, ratings were good. I had told Dr. Cull that I had mistaken the first day of last period. I actually had implation bleeding not a monthly. So I was actually a month over due. She would not change it. The ultrasounds showed my child was very large and didn’t match the time line. STILL DIDNT CHANGE IT. She said there was no way to change it. So I left it alone thinking that I would be able to go into labor on my own.
Finally September was here and waiting for baby boy to enter this world. My due date was set for September 4th 2006. She said we will wait it out until September 20th 2006. If nothing happens we will induce you that weds September 27th 2006. I never even got to one cm. In extream pain due to a huge child that was a month over due. The 27th arrived we went to Riverside Hospital and was balloon induced (let me tell you how painful that was). NEVER AGAIN! I strictly told the nurses at Riverside NO practicing students allowed.
A so called “doctor” didn’t say he was a student came in to put the balloon in to start the induction. He tried the first time didn’t work. Tried again, didn’t work. another time. They had to get a real doctor to put it in.
The next 27 1/2 hrs (yep, that’s correct) in labor no sight or call from Dr. Cull. I didn’t dialate at all even when they broke my water (My child was too large). My son was critical distress as was I, on top of it I was getting a kidney infection during labor. His heart rate was up and mine was as high as his. The nurses called and called her to inform her we needed to do something. NO ANSWERE. Finally she had called back. She thought my sons cord was wrapped around his neck. (im sure just to buy her some time) told them an ultra sound was needed. They didn’t find anything around his neck. She shows up two hrs later and says we are doing an emergency C-Section because of the distress we both were under. (GEEE I WOUNDER WHY!!!) I go into the operating room and she tells me & Hubby exactally what she was going to do and if I feel any pain at all to say something. My husband had made sure to ask if she was going to be the one operating on me because we had a major mishap with a student when we told everyone NO STUDENTS. She said she was the one to be doing the C-section. My husband has to stay in the hallway until they are ready. I have a sheet screen so I cant see anything. Hubby walks in and guess who is cutting, cutting like you would if you were a butcher……. the same student who couldn’t put a simple balloon in! Hubby said it was so hard for him to stay calm, but he kept his composure for me, so I wouldn’t freak out. During this butchering, I am feeling lots of pain sharp pain. so I said, ” STOP I feel lots of stabbing pain on my right side.”
she Yells back at me, “NO you don’t, there is no way you do. I’m not even on that side.”
So she gives me more pain meds. My son finally came out to see us. He was 9.10 lbs and 23″ long. When she stiched me up, my cut line was very wavy like the ocean. I asked her about it and she said, “Oh that’s normal looking.” I was stuck at the hospital an extra day due to her not calling the hospital back about my discharge. On that Sunday, She finally showed up to discharge us. Her only response to us was, “I’m in a hurry, I’m about to miss my son’s soccer game.” She never answered any of our questions because she didn’t have the time.
I was in such pain for many years because of all the scar tissue from the hacking. And mentally scared from her Malpractice. Now to know that she was on drugs…………. Its such a shame that any of us had to go through that.. Shame on her.
Just recently came across all this information and am really disheartened. This woman delivered my 3rd and final child in October 2002. Five months later I was coerced into having a hysterectomy for what I thought was severe fibroids, endometriosis, cervical dysphasia, ovarian cysts and a number of other things. I was basically told that there were no other treatments available because of the extensive damage in my uterus. I was still dealing with the postpartum hormones of giving birth and sleep deprivation. I trusted my dr as I had an amazing childbirth with her despite a horrendous pregnancy. I was 26 years old and it wasn’t until a few years later when I needed a copy of my pathology report for my military records that I learned that all the reasons I was told I needed a hysterectomy were false. There were indeed small fibroids, there was stage one cervical dysphasia, and I did have endometriosis, however none of these conditions warranted the need to cut me open and perform a complete abdominal hysterectomy. Obviously I’ve had 11 years to come to terms with the loss of my ability to bear children but I can’t help but still have some sadness in knowing there were other options available and I have every reason to believe this procedure was done on a whim to pad her pocket.