My experience with Dr. Rabago... To be fair, maybe it's MFA to blame for overbooking and overloading doctors with patients. He was there for the birth of my daughter and maybe that allowed me to ignore earlier red flags. He is a great low-stress, NO-QUESTIONS-ASKED kind of doctor. If you want a little more explanation and guidance, he doesn't have the time for you. He was recommended to us by a friend we trust. My last two experiences are what solidified my opinion of Dr. Rabago and MFA.
#1 - I have a dental procedure done while I am sick and I receive a nasal bacterial infection that lasts over a month. My wife is sick at the time we both see Dr Rabago but hers is a viral nasal infection. Now any doctor worth his salt can ask basic symptom questions to be clued in on which is which and provide the proper treatment. It is pretty common knowledge that the medical field is over-utilizing antibiotics and because of it, antibiotic-resistant strains are developing more quickly than they should. The solution is to reserve treatment for absolutely needed cases. Bacterial Nasal infections require it while viral nasal infections do not. Dr Rabago takes the lazy route and prescribes antibiotics for us both. When I confront him about it, in a rush, he snidely questions how I know which infection I have. I tell him because I've had it for over a month. He's silent. And that's pretty much the end of that experience.
#2 For those familiar with asthma... It's not good to constantly use the albuterol rescue inhaler so they stick us on some form of "controller" thats safer to use on a daily basis. Well the valley's air isnt getting any better so pretty good guess is I'm going to need the controller inhaler prescription for a good long while. Dr. Rabago agrees to prescribe me the Controller Inhaler i need for a year. Pharmacy calls me up after the year and says it's expired on the doctor will not renew. I call the office and they tell me the doctor wants to see me before renewing again. That's understandable, but the nearest appt with Rabago is over a month out. I schedule it. I tell them that I still need the controller inhaler from now until the appt. I'm told Dr Rabago will agree to write a prescription if I schedule the appt. I do it. Nothing happens. I call Costco. They say still being denied. I call the office, Rabago is gone until Tuesday... Best they can do is set an appt with a PA later in the week and I'm left with the impression the PA can only give temp prescriptions. Rather than go to 2 separate appts I give Rabago office a call to see if i can just get the temp prescription until the main appt a month out... They tell me just go to PA appt that she can give me a year-long prescription. Cool. Only I remeber I need to change the appt for another day in the week. I call. They blocked my number.
My doctors office blocked my number. Have some decency and remove me as a patient before pretending to continue to provide care and block a number. I called maybe 4 times in the span of a week for a temp prescription Dr Rabago said he would provide if I scheduled the month-out appt. That was a lie.
MFA and Dr Rabago are not quality healthcare providers. They are about quantity. Getting patients in and out.
I like Dr. Sugimoto. He actually was able to explain his diagnoses and treated us like human beings capable of grasping basic medical concepts and not a patient mill run like an overbooking airline. read more
