I visited Dr. Lucci's office yesterday for a well-woman exam and bloodwork for STD's - better safe than sorry!
They give you an extensive questionnaire to fill out online prior to the appointment. I appreciated this because they didn't ask me any of those uncomfortable questions during my appointment: how many of this, how many of that... Yikes! I even left some of those answers blank because really who's keeping count, but Dr. Lucci was very professional and didn't try to torture me any more than was needed.
As it has been mentioned, he is an older gentleman and you can see the experience in his face. He made me feel very comfortable during a brief interview prior to the examination. His nurse was very kind too, the Hispanic one, I didn't catch her name. The ladies at the front desk were ok, but I wish they were more attentive. They did not notice when I came in, they didn't greet me, the window to the reception remained semi-closed unless you did away with your manners and slid it open yourself.
My exam was as pleasant as any pelvic exam can be. As I mentioned, Dr. Lucci was very professional and brief. Not very talkative but given the circumstances I prefer it that way.
Now, after the exam I was guided to another nurse who drew my blood for the lab tests. I'm terrible with names, but she was an AA lady about 5'5". I happen to like needles and give blood often so I am pretty tolerant to these things, but my experience was just a bit peculiar. She inserted the needle in my artery (which is not hard to find, you can see it through my skin), but somehow her hand was just not very steady and I felt like the needle kept going deeper as she did things with her hands (change the blood containers, etc). It wasn't incredibly painful, but later that night I looked at my arm and realize a huge bruise had formed. It just looks wrong (see pic). As I mentioned, I give blood often and I have never had anything like this before. Oh well, it will heal eventually. In the meantime I'll just look like a junky. . Because of this I will rate the office 3 stars.
I probably won't visit again because I'm moving. If I weren't moving I would visit again because I liked Dr. Lucci very much. I'm sure his nurse will improve with practice. read more