Contacting Ronnie Falcao, LM MS
Looking for a homebirth midwife in San Mateo,
Santa
Clara or Alameda counties? You can learn
more about me and my homebirth practice and then contact
me for more detailed information.
I am not able to provide
healthcare by phone,
so please do not call with healthcare questions. If you're
local
to me and can make an appointment to come to my office in Mountain
View, CA, please do contact me.
Otherwise, I may return your phone call if I have time, but I will
simply tell you that I cannot provide healthcare by phone.
If I'm
busy, I may not be able to return your call.
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How to Contact Me
If you're looking for a homebirth midwife in San Mateo, Santa Clara
or
Alameda Counties, I'm happy to send you detailed information about
my services.
Please let me know your due date, where you live, whether this is a
first
or subsequent baby, and what kind of insurance you have, so I can
send
you the relevant financial information. My e-mail username is
ronnie,
and my domain is gentlebirth.org. Of course, you need
to put
an @ sign between those two to make it work. I'm
making this
somewhat cryptic because I've discovered that having my e-mail
address
on the web has made me the target for hundreds of spam messages a
day.
So, I also have multiple layers of spam filtering built into my
e-mail
system.
If you have a legitimate reason to contact me and need to make
sure
your e-mail gets through my spam filters, just make sure that you
put at
least one of my keywords in the e-mail header. My keywords
are related
to the legitimate reasons why you might want to contact me -
because I'm
a midwife attending homebirth and a doula
assisting
women planning a hospital birth. If I don't respond to your
e-mail
within a day, please do leave a phone message at 650-961-9728 so I
can
look through my spam-filtered messages to find yours.
I wish this weren't so complicated. I'll look forward to
hearing
from you.
I am not able to provide
healthcare by phone,
so please do not call with healthcare questions. If you're
local to me
and can make an appointment to come to my office in Mountain View,
CA,
please do contact me.
Otherwise, I may return your phone call if I have time, but I will
simply tell you that I cannot provide healthcare by phone.
If I'm
busy, I may not be able to return your call.
Getting Answers to Your Personal Health
Questions
I always encourage people to get answers about their personal health
questions
from their personal healthcare providers. The information
contained
in these web pages is general information and cannot possibly be
tailored
to your personal health situation. Only someone who knows your
full
medical history can make critical recommendations about your health.
However, if you are looking for general information and are
having trouble
finding it, you can:
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Search for Local Resources
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Search the Midwife Archives
hierarchically,
read
some of my other writing, or look
for an article that I have formatted for another author
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Do a text search for this web site
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Search other online health
resources
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Get a second opinion - No! not from me!
I
am not available for hire or for free to provide any kind of
research
assistance or healthcare recommendations over the phone or over
the internet.
I do still receive numerous phone calls and e-mails, and it
feels rude
to ignore them, but it also feels rude to call you just to tell
you that
I really meant it. If you're not happy with the care
you're getting
from your primary maternity healthcare provider, then you need
to find
another local maternity healthcare provider who can meet with
you in person
to provide this assistance. If you're in an HMO, your plan
should
provide a mechanism for getting a second opinion. If
you're not in
an HMO, then you could look for
a local midwife.
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If you can make an appointment to come to my office in
Mountain View,
CA, I do offer informational office consultations for
$75/hour; this
is a non-clinical appointment and I will not do any physical
examinations.
I also offer second-opinion clinical consultations for
$175/hour.
To make an appointment, please leave a message at 650-961-9728
or send
me e-mail describing your situation and the reason you
would like a
second-opinion consultation with me. I regret that I do
not have
time to respond to the many requests for free assistance that I
receive
each week.
Web Pages Feedback - I appreciate reader
assistance
in improving these web pages. Please read the specific
information
you need about:
After reading the above, please send the information to me at this
e-mail
address: midwife, at my domain, gentlebirth.org.
Of
course, you need to put an @ sign between those two to make
it
work. I sort through feedback about once a week, so don't be
surprised
if it takes a while to receive a response. Thank you for
your
assistance!
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