text: I had one appointment with Dr Harter while I was baby doctor shopping after moving here from Boston Moving from Boston where ALL my my doctors in every single discipline had an ivy league education and were board certified to Las Vegas where well that is sooo far from the case proved to be a little challenging to find quality care nDr Harter seems to have found his niche as Vegas natural doctor because he is the only one in the valley that does VBACs and water births It is nice that he is supportive of this but I got the impression that he is just in this field because it is probably pretty lucrative being the only one I am really passionate about natural birth and I asked him a ton of questions like will baby and mom be left undisturbed for an hour after birth what is the backup plan should Dr Harter be attending another birth how supportive is the hospital of breastfeeding and the answers were just not really satisfactory by my standards nDr Harters procedures were also not only not consistent with naturalminded patients but not really good practice for ANY OB At the first appointment he gave me a sheet of okay medications When you are pregnant there is no such thing as universally okay medications And there were medications on the sheet that have recently been linked to a three times increase in miscarriage according to an article on CNN So not okay Not to mention handing a sheet that says if you have a headache take this if you have a stomach ache take this means that he does not take the time to personally consult over what could be serious symptoms My OB in Boston who has her medical degree from Yale advised me not to take ANY medications without checking with her first nDr Harter also wheeled in an ultrasound machine even though there was no indication whatsoever to do an ultrasound The AAP and the ACOG recommend against nonmedically indicated ultrasounds as there have been some studies pointing to possible harm of too many ultrasounds Just the doppler is fine But a doctor can bill more to insurance for doing an ultrasound nAside from my experience with the doctor himself the office staff was terrible It took me over a month to get an appointment They refused to book an appointment until I sent over my records from Boston which I sent promptly and they then LOST Yes they lost my medical records So I sent them again and they never called me I called them weeks later nThe office really felt like a cattle call as well There were sooo many people in the waiting room and we waited for hours Dr Harter was attending a birth and did not reschedule me or any of his other patients during this time but hey why lose the billable visits And as much as I was not at all happy about the crazy unreasonable wait I would really hate to be that poor woman giving birth with a doctor attending that knew in the back of his head that he had to get back as quickly as possible to see a rapidly growing list of waiting patients that he did not reschedule nBut as awful as this sounds given all of the negatives above if I HAD to have a doctor in Las Vegas I would likely go with him given the extremely slim pickings here and his at least openness to a natural approach and he is board certified again hard to find around here But luckily I found a fantastic midwife that I am really really comfortable with