Dr. Orkin is a very compassionate physician who my husband and I felt very supported and cared for during a very difficult time. He took the time to thoroughly explain procedures and answer questions. He came highly recommended by my OB specialist and I would highly recommend to others. read more

I too feel the need to write about Dr. Orkin. He was the kindest, most honest and compassionate man for the incredibly painful and difficult situation we were put in. He explained everything with tact, but was clear about my needs, my husband's needs and the outcomes. We are grateful to him and his skills. Two of our specialists recommended him and said that they would recommend him to any of their family members or would go to him themselves. He did the best by us in a situation that no one wanted to be in. With love and tenderness he helped us come to a resolution. Thank you Dr. Orkin. read more

Similar to Kate M I also felt compelled to write a review on here. Today we had an appointment with Dr. Orkin that was of a complicated, complex nature. Due to the review by Kitty S. I felt additional anxiety based on reading her review. Based on my experience today I would highly recommend Dr. Orkin to anyone I know. His beside manner was beyond my expectations and far better than most other medical professionals that I've dealt with. read more

I have been seeing Dr. Orkin for over 10 years and he has always been extremely professional, knowledgeable and caring. He is truly passionate about his work. The office is clean and cozy and because he is a solo practitioner, it makes the experience more personal, which is really important when your dealing with something so private. He showed a lot of compassion and I can't thank him enough. read more

I don't ever write reviews but in this case I really feel the need to. I am a medical professional and I know how important it is to be in the hands of a skilled surgeon. I also know that sometimes bedside manner and skill do not necessarily come hand in hand. This is not the case with Dr. Orkin. He is an excellent physician all around. I saw him during what was an extremely stressful and very traumatic time for me. He saw me the morning after I was referred to him (after being delayed a week at my previous office and bounced around from doctor to doctor) he booked me for surgery that day which I am SO very grateful for. He also came with high recommendations from colleagues I know that work in surgery with him so I had to trust their judgment even though I only met him that day. I had minimal pain and no complications afterwards. My surgery was quick and easy. He was kind and compassionate and even made my husband and I laugh at such a difficult time for us. I have a renewed sense of gratitude for physicians like Dr Orkin who took the time to answer all my questions, took my concerns seriously and urgently, and was a kind and compassionate human being. read more

Today I had my IUD removed by this man. It was not only painful, but an absolutely humiliating and degrading of an experience. He was irritated with my from the moment he looked at me. Nevermind I had smiled and asked him how he was, while I had been waiting for over an hour past my appt time. There were previous complications trying to get the IUD out which made my primary care doc send me to a real gyno. Well, I don't know how this man is still in practice. I was taken aback when he told me I should be douching with a giant syringe of warm water and baking soda three times a day for a week to help a yeast infection medicine "work better." I suppose I should have realized then that this man was archaic in his knowledge of women's health. Most reports indicate that douching actually causes way more infections than it could heal. That is information from like 60 years ago that he's giving me! He also told me it was safe to have perfectly sex without condoms with a person who had herpes. Well. I know that outbreaks can cause transmission but would it not be wise for a gyno to tell a young woman to use protection anyway? He basically encouraged me to not use it. Let me go on. Today's experience took the cake for most humiliating, daunting experience I could have imagined. Already I had been very pensive about the removal because of previous suspicions it was lodged into my uterus. I put my trust in this man. He came into the room and told me to get undressed, but didn't leave to let me. So I undressed with him and the assistant there. Then the assistant-- actually she is a receptionist-- left. He was flustered he could not find the right instruments. Maybe that's why he decided to treat me with ZERO respect. He told me to lay down, poked his entire finger quickly inside of my vagina (not nice!!!) and then pushed his speculum in there. I was already saying "Ow, Ow," because whatever he was doing down there was causing me pain. He told me to "Stop!" making these sounds. He told me to be very still. I was still feeling alot of pain, so again "Ow, Ow" and he got irate at me for vocalizing the pain. I had to ask him through my clenched teeth to "Please be kind to me" because he was so rude. He said "I am being kind! You need to be quiet." That's when he pulled out some vicious torture instrument and told me "Now I am going to have this instrument clip your cervix" and did so. I HOWLED with the pain (I'd actually taken a painkiller a half hour before anyway but obviously it did nothing to help). He was furious. I was crying. He told me to "Stop, Stop, it's out" and I continued hiding my face under my hands in shock and pain. When I opened my eyes, he was dangling my IUD infront of me saying "You don't believe me?! It's here. Do you want it?" DO I WANT TO TAKE MY 5 YEAR USED IUD HOME WITH ME? WHAT? As a souvenir for that traumatic treatment?? I was told that if the IUD was not embedded then it should pop right out and there wouldn't be any pain, just cramping and bleeding afterward. Well, that experience with old, wrinkly, mean Boris Orkin was more painful than some other more extreme things I've had done down there. And to be ridiculed, humiliated and disrespected to such a degree, from an old man who is dishing out vaginal health tips from the 1950's, was just one of the most awful experiences I've ever had with any doctor. I really want to implore whoever may read this to do yourself a favor and find another doctor. Especially when you're having to expose yourself and put your personal matters into their expertise, do you really want to go to an old man in a dingy, dirty looking office to have him use his instruments to torture your vagina? I feel like I just came back from an S&M appointment. The man has NO bedside manner, no compassion for your pain, and no care to update his practices to reflect modern discoveries for women's health. Hopefully after reading this review you'll be using Yelp to find a reputable doctor instead of this awful, mean old man. read more

I feel compelled to write a review, because the first review on this page nearly caused me to cancel my appointment with Dr. Orkin, and I am very glad that I did not. I was convinced to keep the appointment by another physician, who gave him her highest review--a glowing recommendation in every respect. Thus reassured, I went to see Dr. Orkin with a fairly complex, sensitive issue, about which I was suffering a lot of anxiety. From the first moment of our meeting, Dr. Orkin was kind, compassionate, and sensitive to my concerns. He took his time, making sure to explain everything thoroughly, and did not mind clarifying further when I was too anxious to follow his explanations. In completing a painful procedure, he was reassuring, gave detailed information about what he was going to do and when, and let me know how we were progressing throughout. (As an aside, let me say, here, that if you are getting your cervix clamped for any reason at all, it is never less than very painful, regardless of the doctor who performs the procedure.) I cannot recommend Dr. Orkin highly enough--and by doing so I hope I have allayed the fears of others, like me, who might otherwise have been deterred by the first, bad review. read more