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Kathryn Paige KESSLER MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology - Tennessee Knoxville

I love my OB/GYN, Dr. Paige Kessler-Johnson (She has two last names because she got married a few years after I started seeing her. So for her patient's sake, she uses both). I have seen her for almost 10 years now. I changed to Dr. Kessler-Johnson a few weeks after a bad encounter with my previous OB/GYN. She has been wonderful to me.

Dr. Kessler-Johnson is always cheerful, comforting, friendly, trustworthy, experienced and diligent.
**Cheerful: She always has a smile on her face and an upbeat attitude.
**Comforting: The story is below, but when I was given my diagnosis of Cervical Cancer, she sat with me and explained everything, answered all my questions, even "silly" ones and gave me a big hug before I left the office that day.
**Friendly: Every time I go see her she always asks me how I am doing physically, mentally, and emotionally. She asks about our 4 legged family and how my relationship is with my husband. She will give me a high five for things I have been doing to promote good health for myself, like going to the gym, drinking more water, and taking multivitamins
**Trustworthy: She has never fudged the truth or misrepresented any procedure or medication that we discuss. She had to make a judgment call during my LEEP procedure and if she hadn't, the cancer wouldn't have been found and no telling what could have happened because I was about to be moved to the new federal guidelines of a PAP every 2 to 3 years instead of yearly.
**Diligent: If anything looks suspicious or I mention something not feeling quite normal, she will go out of her way to make sure that nothing is wrong. She has done blood work before to check certain levels and strongly suggested the hysterectomy even though I could have waited a short amount of time to have it. And because I have a family history of breast cancer, she started having me get a mammogram at age 29. I get one every year so that we keep on top of something that runs in my family and could go wrong. When I started going to Dr. Kessler-Johnson’s practice I had been on Depo Provera for a few years. I was newly married and we weren’t sure if we wanted to start a family soon after the marriage. She switched me out to birth control pills, but gave me a few months worth of samples to see if I liked it versus the Depo. I didn’t like the pills, so she switched me back. Depo Provera can cause bone loss. So every 3 to 5 years Dr. Kessler-Johnson schedules me a bone density scan to check my bones and make sure I am not loosing bone mass due to the medication.

I have had 2 abnormal PAPs since seeing her and both times had a colposcopy. She told me all the things that could happen that some people had intense pain during and some didn't. The first came back normal but the second one didn't. She wanted to do a LEEP on me and said it could be done in office but with my pain issues with my back she suggested that we do the procedure under anesthesia at the hospital. After the procedu... [<a href='read.php?taid=14491'>more..</a>]