When I first started coming to Dr. Vreilink, The reception area was completely different, small but warm and welcoming, with a lovely lady that was their receptionist, all decor was Christian oriented, although I initially found the doctor quarky, I came to believe he had my best interest at heart, and loved the fact he was a Christian. Within the last year the receptionist was no longer there, and was replaced with a very cold young man, that was consistently making errors with my personal information, was obviously not trained appropriately with the HPPA policy, he nearly handed out my information with someone specifically not listed on my contact information until I had to correct him. After Dr. Vreilink became involved in side passions, one being designing a beehive, and getting it put into Art Prize, suddenly the whole decor of the office was changed from a Christian atmosphere to an advertising agency for his new passion, all Christian decor had been taken down, and was all about bees. He even admitted on his own accord he was trying to raise awareness for his upcoming event. Also previous to these events,when he was going through a divorce, he broke down a couple of times, crying during the time I was paying for, telling me his soon to be ex wife basically made it so horrible for him telling falsehoods he had to choose between his business or seeing his children, he chose his business. He was continually TRYING to mentor other young boys, which he would literally share and show me texts and emails from them, as well as pictures. Every time he did one of these mentoring passions, interestingly enough, the parents of the kids ended up objecting to their relationship with Dr.Vrielink. This arose some curiosity on my part as to why. All the while hearing about his endeavors and greatness, on my dime. I was always very compassionate and understanding though just figuring he is human as well, and has pain and disappointment. Come my last appointment just last month, was left a message on my answering machine that if my balance of 300$ wasn't paid by my visit the next day I would not be able to see the doctor, even though we had it set up for an additional amount to be paid monthly, coming from my husband's debit card, unbeknownst to me my husband had shut his card down, which is part of my mental health dilemma that I am married to a very controlling man, who doesn't inform me of anything to do with our finances, I was clueless that this had occurred. When I did inform my husband of this after I had called office the next morning of my appointment, and was then called back and told the same thing, my husband did call them, and claimed that if I showed up with a certain amount of money, that I would be seen. I was already in a frenzy of a panic attack for days due to the nature of my home life, and health issues I was having, and wanted to talk to the doctor that day, about possible PTSD issues, I showed up with money, scraping up even more change to put towards balance to be seen, I did show up amidst having a panic attack, the moment I came in, after driving an hour to the appointment, the "new guy" at reception desk, immediately phones in whomever new lady in charge of billing into reception area, and instantly starts demeaning me, talking in a very condescending and rude manner about the balance being paid, when I tried to explain to her in my diress that I didn't have a clue my husband had closed off his debit card, she told me that I knew all along. This was even more distressing to me in my state and told her you don't know my life, or husband, and that is a lie, and not to talk to me like that, she then called in Dr. Vreilink to reception area, I tried to explain to him the issues of the constant mistakes being made by the new receptionist which I had brought to his attention in previous sessions, also he was very aware of my distressing home life and what my husband was like, he disappears for a few moments with the lady, and hands me a sheet of paper to allow the balance to be taken from my husbands account, and was going to provide the routing number etc. instead of card, showed up with the money they said I needed to be seen, and as I start filling out this paperwork, I did inform him I would be starting a job that I was hired for so would be able to be responsible for my own payments and would give them my bank information as well, until I was told suddenly, they would no longer see me and the form, I was filling out, was for the remainder of payment, for the remaining balance, he nor anyone there was interested in what I was going through mentally with bi-polar, and anxiety issues, and how I was breaking down from overload of stress, they just wanted their money. I had since apologized for being worked up, that I needed his help, I couldn't ruin my one job opportunity to make my quality of life better, that I had not been able to find another psychiatrist, and could he help until that time, I tried contacting him, via, letter,emails, messages in a kind an appropriate manner. Ans just received a letter finally stating they will not help me, do to inability to pay, which had since been cleared up, which now according to them I was not a good fit. Now I'm left with no help, my job could be jeopardized, which means everything else in my life is too now. His christianity front is fake, he does not conduct himself nor his business as such either, so consider yourself forewarned, if you go here, you are just considered a cash commodity, nothing more, regardless of what you may be told in the beginning. IF you do choose to see him you will figure out his other oddities. Don't put yourself at risk here, they will kick you to the curb over a buck.
Dr. Amandeep Singh Saluja, MDNeurology, Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry25 Years Exp | Grand Rapids, MI
