I recently had the displeasure of dealing with Dr. Geoffrey Stewart Long and his staff. To anyone…read morereading this, I'd advise you not to waste your time with Dr. Long: he's quite unprofessional, he's condescending, his bedside manner is AWFUL, he's pushy, is passive-aggressive if he doesn't like you, he doesn't respect patient agency with regards to one's own medical decisions, and at least one of his nurses (Annie) lacks any semblance of professionalism and good bedside manner. In short, you won't be treated with the slightest bit of dignity.
With regards to Dr. Long himself, he was incredibly unprofessional and rude. He made it clear that our political views did not align and became borderline hostile when I told him that I did not want the vaccine (I was there for a digestive issue & check-up). He accused me of being "one of those anti-COVID people" because I didn't want the vaccine, when I told him that "we're all anti-COVID", he became snippy, short, and condescending with me.
He proceeded to be incredibly patronizing and talked down to me about a number of issues, including incorrectly lecturing me on the mechanism of action of a digestive supplement that I told him I was taking, mere moments after telling me that he had never even heard of it! I know the difference between an osmotic laxative and an irritant, thank you very much. I get the feeling that the doctor was displeased at my responses to his quasi-political interrogation and decided to be a jerk about it after he constantly pressured me to take the vaccine. When I declined, he instantly became passive-aggressive and rude and began trying to lecture me to exact some kind of petty revenge. Quite childish behavior, the likes of which I'd never previously experienced from a medical professional.
As for his nurse, Annie, was the first person I saw, and made several off-color comments about height & weight. The first thing she asked me was "why [I] looked so frightened?" (from behind my mask - excuse me, but you don't know me) and was generally rambling on and on about nonsense and blabbering on about things as if she were sitting at her kitchen table and running off her litany of complaints about men to one of her girlfriends. What's more, I don't know about you, but nurses accusing you of fudging your height because I told her I was less than a quarter an inch taller than her measurement, stereotyping you ("Men lie about their height!" - verbatim quote from the nurse), and telling you to smile is not my idea of good bedside manner. Nurse Annie, however, seems to think that all of the above is a great idea and apparently thinks it's endearing to mouth off to people that she's never seen before.
An awful patient experience from a miserable office. I'd steer clear of this doctor entirely, he's not worth his salt.
