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    Belles William J Sinus Center of Wny MD PC - Waiting room TV

    Belles William J Sinus Center of Wny MD PC

    2.2(17 reviews)
    4.1 mi

    I saw Dr Belles and we agreed upon an ABLATION of my sinuses. I was told to wait for Insurance…read moreapproval..Well it's been two months later and the office will NOT RESPOND. I placed numerous calls to the office only to hear we will notify him! NO RESPONSE..I sent a letter to him..NO RESPONSE! What is a patient to do? It is CRAZY what goes on in his office...HE may be a wonderful doctor BUT he has to inform his staff what is expected of them and HE needs to TAKE CARE OF HIS PATIENTS BETTER. In my letter I asked if there was a problem to PLEASE let me know so I may make other arrangements..NO RESPONSE.. As a patient, HE has left me hanging with NO services and NO reply. Seek another doctor..NO patient should be treated this way!! HIS STAFF IS UNPROFESSIONAL AND UNCARING...Too bad they represent Dr. Belles who does so good for so many people! I feel they don't care if a patient leaves the practice..he has so many waiting to be mistreated by staff. Dr Belles needs to consider the feelings of his patients..No one should be treated the way I have been treated along with many more patients!

    Prequel - I read all of the Google & Yelp reviews saying how long of a wait patients experience at…read moreDr. Belles's office. I thought to myself: 'They must have been lying! They were probably just late and then made to wait!' and I booked a 'new patient' appointment anyhow. I went on the office's website and filled out all of the patient forms, too, to save time. And I made a point of asking the receptionist on the phone if it'd be a 'quick visit' and she assured me...after a long pause... that I'd be in out in less than an hour. Great. First visit - I arrived on time. The tiny waiting room was PACKED with people. It was freezing cold in there, and the TV was blaring. The sliding 'windows' to the receptionist area were closed. Either they are freezing and have under-desk space heaters and have the windows shut to avoid the cold air from the waiting room, or they have the windows shut to deter having to talk to patients. Or both. I stood there for several minutes, with three distinct shadows being present in the reception area - no one opened the window until I had been standing there for 5 minutes. Now we're 5 minutes past my appointment time. The receptionist gave me a clipboard with patient forms to completed. I began them, then realized: 'Hey, these look familiar, I did these online and submitted them last week.' So I just wrote 'completed online' for a lot of the blanks, then handed in the clipboard. The receptionist said she 'did not have access to the portal' so I'd have to fill them out. What? Why? Now it is 20 minutes past my appointment time, and I've finished the forms and handed them in. I looked around the waiting room: all of the same people from when I arrived. I wanted to ask them their appointment times, but stopped myself. When it was 45 minutes past my appointment time, I walked up to reception again and asked how long it would be. I was told: 'No idea, it's out of my hands once I check you in!' I sat down for another 15 minutes, then walked up to the reception area again and said that I'd need to reschedule. I had been waiting ONE HOUR. My time is valuable, and I don't at all trust a doctor if his office isn't even run efficiently. You know how patients are charged a 'no-show' fee if they don't cancel a medical appointment within 24 hours? I wish we could charge doctors' offices $50 for every 15 minutes that we aren't seen. I could have made $200. Anyhow: between the bad reviews, the double form-filling-out, the 'closed-off' reception area, the loud TV, and the hour-plus wait: DO NOT GO TO THIS OFFICE! I admit it: I was curious, and wanted to stick around just to see what time I'd actually be seen, and if this doctor was 'worth the wait.' But like most adults: I have other things to attend to. I can't sit around a waiting room indefinitely. I am going to keep my rescheduled appointment, but I'm going to be a no-show. I doubt they'd even notice. Hopefully me 'missing' my appointment will allow other people to have to wait less.

    Danziger Iris MD

    Danziger Iris MD

    2.5(2 reviews)
    2.8 mi

    We brought my newborn son to Dr. Danziger since his pediatrician diagnosed him with a mild tongue…read moretie. We ended up not having a frenotomy done, so I can't speak to the full extent of Dr. Danziger's services, but can vouch for her bedside manner. This Amherst location is her satellite office, where she shares space within a larger pediatrics office. She also has an office in West Seneca, but we opted for this location since it was more convenient for us. When making my son's appointment, I learned that she's in Amherst on Tuesdays and West Seneca on Mondays-not sure about the rest of the week. Dr. Danziger was warm, friendly, and very supportive of breastfeeding. Once she assessed my son and determined that he didn't need a frenotomy, she encouraged us to stay in the room as long as I needed to nurse him. A nurse even brought us a pillow to prop him up on, to make things easier for us. The only two quibbles I have are: 1) while we were escorted to a room around our appointment time, we waited about half an hour before Dr. Danziger appeared, and 2) as we were wrapping up nursing and packing up to leave, one of her nurses appeared to give us a sheet with post-op instructions. The latter would have been helpful if we had the procedure done, but it seems that there was a lack of communication within her staff. But no harm done, so I would still recommend consulting with Dr. Danziger if you have a child with possible tongue tie issues.

    Horrible, misdiagnosed my mother, never took the time to hear her concerns or even believe her…read more Now she's battling advanced cancer. Stay as far away as you can.

    Ambulatory Surgery Center Of Western New York - Expansive waiting area

    Ambulatory Surgery Center Of Western New York

    4.4(7 reviews)
    3.4 mi

    My 2 year old had ear tubes placed yesterday, first time being here , I am a special needs mom of 3…read moreand can say that the nurses were great , anesthesiologist was very clear and the surgeon Dr behar who placed the tubes in his ears is phenomenal she listened and addressed my concerns for my son from the ENT to surgery day here , the place is clean the only thing I DID NOT like was the schedule of time I didn't know until the day before by text . As I arrive I didn't even know the scheduled time of his surgery until I got his folder thankfully only a 45 minute wait and we we're done with his surgery in 15 minutes

    Prequel - I had one surgery, at a hospital, a year before being made to come here for an unrelated…read moresurgery. For the hospital surgery: no food or water after midnight, be at the hospital at 6am, surgery at 7am. Everything was wonderful. That's what I was expecting would happen here, but what happened here was a nightmare. Issue #1 - They don't tell you what time your surgery is scheduled for - ever. They will text you the day before to tell you what time to BE there, but they do not tell you what time your surgery is scheduled to take place. Issue #2 - They require that you have someone with you, to drive you home afterward; this is understandable but without that person knowing what time your surgery is and what time you're expected to be discharged: they're expected to clear a whole day to be available for a surgery that may only take a half hour. Issue #3 - The 'no food or water after midnight' rule is outdated and untrue. The American Society of Anesthesiologists issued guidelines in 1999, 2011, & 2017 that patients may have clear liquids up to 2 hours before surgery. The old guidelines/rules were invented in the 1950s when pregnant patients were 'anesthetized' with ether on a mask, which caused nausea and for the patient to vomit up their stomach contents. Today, an endotracheal tube is used to prevent this from occurring, so liquids should be allowed up to 2 hours prior to surgery. Issue #4 - Snarky Nurse. I pressed the 'call' button to ask a question - just one question - and I heard her say: 'Ugh, this girl is gonna keep my on my toes!' (Sorry, nurse, to have interrupted your wedding planning conversation to ask you a question, which the intake nurse said I was more than welcome to do as often as I liked. But I've been sitting in a curtained-off room for two and a half hours and no one has given me an update aside from 'It'll be about 45 minutes to an hour until your surgery' - and that was at Noon. It's now 2:30pm, I'm thirsty as hell because I haven't had any water for nearly 13 hours, and I have jack sh*t to do because I was told to not bring any books/phones/valuables - which I suppose is good because I saw some Google reviews where patients woke up to find some of their valuables 'missing'). Issue #5 - The attempted to gaslight me, and offered me unnecessary medication. After I asked: 'How much longer until my surgery?' the Snarky Nurse went and got the anesthesiologist's 'helper / #2 man' who came into my 'room' and told me: 'You're anxious.' I informed him that I was NOT anxious, just irritated that it has been nearly 3 hours since I was checked-in and no one will tell me what time my surgery is going to take place. I had spoken to him earlier, because everyone involved in your care that day will come over and introduce themselves, and that had been the only time I had spoken to him - and I was not anxious then, either. Now, he had no other reason to think otherwise - aside from Snarky Nurse, who likely did not want to 'deal' with me after my one very-normal question. He briefly disappeared, then returned and offered me 'some of the pre-surgery sedation medication to calm you down.' I told him - again - that I was not anxious; that I was mad about the wait time, frustrated about being so thirsty for the past 13 hours, and had no interest in receiving any 'shut up drugs' for simply asking what time my surgery was going to take place. Issue #6 - Overall Wait Time. I waited nearly FOUR HOURS to be taken back to surgery. That's 16 hours of no water, for a person who dehydrates quite easily. Absolutely unacceptable. Issue #7 - Billing. I was required to pre-pay for the surgery, which I did. The young lady I spoke to informed me that I would not receive any further bills or charges from this Center. Months after my surgery, I received a bill for 'anesthesia services' for over $200. This qualifies as a 'Surprise Medical Bill' which I believe violates the 'No Surprises Act' which went into effect on January 1, 2022. And I did report it as such. Issues I've Found by Others - one Google user claims to have gotten a staph infection from this Center. Several Google users have stated that their surgeries were cancelled on them. A couple of Google reviewers stated that they were over-charged by this Center. One person stated that they were man-handled by a nurse after being woken up from anesthesia on the very spot that he had just been operated on. One Last Note - A Boomer-aged woman who works there was having computer issues and was on speakerphone with an IT guy and she kept shouting into the phone: 'IS MY PASSWORD STILL CATHOLIC HEALTH 4 ?!?' Every patient in the pre-op area now knows her password. A password to a computer, within a medical network of computers, that very likely collectively contain the private medical information of many patients. Probably not the smartest thing to be shouting over & over again, when everyone on the floor can hear it.

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