Comments on: Dr. Kimberly Cull suspended by medical board

By: Mandy

Mandy — Wed, 04 May 2011 11:58:17 +0000

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.

By: Glenn Welker

Glenn Welker — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:53:32 +0000

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.

By: katrinarutherford@hotmail.com

katrinarutherford@hotmail.com — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:08:56 +0000

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?

By: Glenn Welker

Glenn Welker — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:41:44 +0000

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.

By: Greg Hitel

Greg Hitel — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:07:48 +0000

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.

By: Bobbie Evans

Bobbie Evans — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:37:22 +0000

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

By: shirrah moore

shirrah moore — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:59:47 +0000

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.