If I could give zero stars, that would be too high for this practice…read more
1. No one, from the PAs to the doctors, seemed to have a clue who I was or what my intake paperwork/lab results said until repeatedly prompted to look. Why bother taking time to write out what prescriptions I'm taking or my medical history if no one was going to read or even mention it? When the doctor came in, he skimmed the latter and told me everything was fine, even though several tests had come back VERY abnormal. Upon being called out on this, he just hemmed and hawed, and looked very unpleasantly surprised that I had known to access my results online through LabCorp. On a side note, the patients I saw in the waiting room were overwhelmingly elderly and/or immigrants who struggled with English.
2. My BP was ridiculously high and I wanted to discuss it at the appointment, as it had been that way for a while, despite no clear reason for it to be that way. I'm on the young side, not overweight, and actually struggle with LOW sodium. The PA retook it 3 times trying to get a number he liked better, commenting all the while that I must be nervous about doctors, and if not that, should cut down on salt intake. But...my very low sodium was there in the lab work that had just come back. He finally said the doctor would probably need to put me on meds. Well, I never found out, because the doctor was in such a rush to get out, (after I had waited for a full hour) that he was in and out in under 10 mins. For the first bit of the appt, he chose to hover in the doorway-- to the extent that he was actually blocking his own scribe from advancing into the room. I spent the next 3 days in bed with a monster headache, feeling like my eyes were about to pop out of my head, and being indecisive about going to the ER *spoiler alert: I should have, high BP is no joke.
I could go on about my incredulous attempts to get him to engage with me; or at LEAST stop trying to escape the room, but I think you get the picture. Weirdly, on top of his practice not having a patient portal of its own, I was asked (using my previous doctor's portal) to personally download my medical records and test data, print it all out, and then bring it in to the office for the admin team. Why they couldn't contact my previous doctor themselves to transfer my medical records directly is really still not clear to me. Moot point now, as I certainly won't be returning.
So to summarize? Dr. Mehra and his team presided over the single WORST experience I've ever had in the entire medical system, and I've had some pretty crazy experiences over the past decade as a chronic illness sufferer. Please, do yourself a favor and go somewhere, anywhere, else. He may be a good choice for something like workman's comp--based on signs posted on the walls it seemed like his office was geared towards this already. But even if you're restricted by Medicaid, find a different doctor. Literally ANYONE would do a better job than this mockery of the Hippocratic Oath come to life. Avoid.
P.s--Please note, my references to my own protected health information does NOT constitute permission for the medical practice in question to refer to any of my protected info in any capacity-- HIPAA rules still apply. Probably doesn't need to be said, but in my own doctor search I have seen some owner responses that clearly violate patient privacy.
