Gregory Vardakis, D.O.

How in the world am I the first to give this beautiful man a review I’ll never know. This doctor genuinely cares about his patients. He is realistic empathetic and I consider him not only my friend but my hero. I’ve been seeing him for 8 years I believe and I have had nothing but complications with my health. I’m 36 now and had UC since I was 19 years old. I was in prison when mine hit me and I got neglected so long that by the time I discovered Dr.Vardokiss I was in my mid 20s through a week long stay at the hospital he treated me back to what they can only do when you don’t have insurance “prednisone” among other drugs.
I was employed and he took a special interest in my case saying that my condition was one of the worst he’s seen in a guy my age I believe something to that effect anyway. He wanted to help me and he could prescribe all the drugs in the world but with no insurance it’s impossible to get access. So he worked with me with what we could do temporarily and could not stress enough the importance of getting me some financial help “insurance” so he could do a realistic treatments that weren’t just stabilizing until the next crisis which means many many days in the ER. I did my part and got the insurance through my work and we started attacking the UC like a foreign enemy that it is. I responded well to the biologic treatment but it only would hold up for so long. But Dr V wasn’t deterred. We would spend the next several years fighting the flare ups whenever they occurred and we would try different treatments until it was back under control. At times I would beg him to just cut my colon out and he would assure me that we would find a way to spare me from that and preserve it as long as we could. We formed a bond together that will be life long. All his staff and anyone that knows him knows how much his patients well being means to him and commands respect not for himself but for his patients through his staff. I’m gonna give “Sam, Jessica and Jona” a special thanks for all the love and respect they have expressed through professionalism over the years and that I miss Sam and Jessica like crazy. The staff was so caring and bubbly that when I got super ill barely about to walk from blood loss and malnutrition the thought of seeing my friends at Jackson county gastro out weighed my physical sickness and the anticipation of my appointment with Doctor V or Jona “his awesome nurse practitioner” would change to feelings of excitement and relief. I’m am so thankful to have these people in my life that I feel like im apart of my own medical team as a family. Dr Vardokiss is one of those guys that sees people in their worst conditions and has thousands of patients he sees. And he seeks no recognition for his unsung deeds that he does everyday to for people and the interest he takes for every patient. People don’t know under influence of propathal when he’s in his element and they’re on the table but they who lie there are entertaining angels. There should be reviews from any of his staff. It doesn’t matter who he works with when your Vs patient they all are on their BEST behavior and the respect this man gets is not through some kinda god complex or through im the doctor fears it’s through the genuine humbles of this mans character and he will make fun of himself before he or any of his staff even think about disrespecting the patient. The charismatic way he deals with my adversities and how he goes above and beyond the scope of his duty hopefully reflects the future of humanity in medicine.