I am the mother of an adult son who is autistic with other issues, and should be followed/monitored…read moreby specialists. Since we moved to Sac. County, it has been very difficult for us to find appropriate health care for him with his limited insurance. His PCP is a nurse practitioner(NP) and she recently gave my son a referral to Dr. Burgerman, a neurologist/surgeon, who treats seizure disorders. I was so happy to get a specialist for my son's problem that I failed to check him out, but was quickly aware that this man had a God complex. I was naturally upset during the first visit because it was my child that was possibly getting the disagnosis of frontal lobe seizures, but each time I tried to ask a question, I was rudely cut off. Dr. Burgerman also allowed his Nursing Assistant to attend the interview, and her constant interruptions were not only a distraction, they wrre outright rude at times, but Dr. Burgerman allowed this to continue & I wondered if she was his wife. I asked about the possible conflict in a med. my son was already on and three he had written down for him to start on, when his NP jumped up from her seat and informed me that they ONLY TREAT SEIZURES! Being a lay person, I had no idea what was meant by this display and tried to inquire, but Linda, the NP, just kept cutting me off until Dr. Burgerman stepped in and said, "I treat seizures! I do not prescribe psychiatric drugs. If you are asking if I took the drug your son takes into consideration before prescribing the antiseizure medication, then yes I did. That drug also lowers his threshold for seizures and if you desire to keep him on it, you'll have to retain a psychiatrist to prescribe it." Wouldn't it have been nice if he had just said that in the first place? How would I know any of that?? I was so put off by this man and his so-called NP?,"Whatever?," any trust or hope that I may have had in him being able to help my son, went right out the window. My son was in a wheelchair and when he needed to use the bathroom, which was just next door to our room, Dr. Burgerman told me he could not use it, as it was for staff only. We were then told to go down the hall, through a pediatric waiting room of another doctor's practice, out his door, down another hall and to the left, then down yet one more hall to get to a bathroom. Once there, we found no handicapped or unisex facility, like the one next to Burgerman's interview room, and I had to take my grown, 37 yr old son, into the ladies bathroom to assist him. Surely Dr. Burgerman, as well as the other staff there, have had to attend Dr. appoints for themselves, and in other facilities where they shared restooms with other patients... Did they think their chances of catching autism from a toilet seat was any greater in their building then anyone elses??? It just placed a lot more emotional stress on the both of us, and I was wondering what kind of man this doctor was. Later on, when I called his office to inquire if my son could have some medication for his migraine, I was told by Burgerman's receptionist, that he was in still in surgery and could not be disturbed.. I asked his recpeptionist to please give him a msg when he was out.. The recept. then told me to get the meds from my son's PCP... so I reminded her that his PCP was a Nurse Practitioner, and referred my us to Burgerman in the first place because she said that his problems were beyond the scope of her expertise! A back and forth ensued, in which this staff person began to badger me about why I couldn't find a doctor? If I had called every doctor in the phone book? And did I expect her to find my son a doctor? ( All the while, my son was crying and screaming in the background that his head hurt.. and could I help him?) I was plenty rattled by now, almost feeling as if I had stepped into the Twilight Zone with this witch, so I said, "Ma'am, did I call you and ask you to find us a doctor, or did I ask you to pass a msg to Dr. Burgerman that my son needs medication?" And BAM!, She slammed the phone down and hung up on me! Did these people work with Dr. Burgerman, so long that they felt this kind of behavior toward a patient or client was somehow justified or acceptable? At 7:30 that evening, Dr. Burgerman phoned me and asked me why I had screamed at his staff person. There is no way that I even raised my voice to her, but there was no explaining to him what happened either. He just unloaded on me, and told me that if I wanted medicine for my son, I could take him to the E.R. and maybe some doctor there would prescribe it for him. He also said, "No wonder you can't find a doctor for your son!" I am still in shock. This man has no empathy, care or concern for his patients in my estimation.. and my son will not go back to him, especially after I pulled up a couple of patient reviews and saw that I was not an isolated incident. Good luck!