Hmm. Okay. I have a pretty good opinion of the nurse practitioners in this office, so I don't want my one-star review to be reflective of the care I received from them. However, I was deeply disappointed by my visit with Dr. Nagar and don't want other women finding themselves in the same uncomfortable situation I did.
First of all, Dr. Nagar was unprofessional. She was late to our appointment - which isn't a big deal - but she then proceeded to rush me through the entire process, almost ignoring everything I had to say. (Not my fault we started late!) I voiced some major concerns I had about specific medical conditions I had, but it seemed like she was constantly interrupting me and ignoring everything I had to say.
Throughout all this, we weren't really talking about my *medical* concerns; Dr. Nagar wanted to gab about my appearance, my job, and my sex life - about which she made incredibly inappropriate comments. (For someone so pressed for time, I was surprised by how much she wanted to talk things that were, quite frankly, none of her business. And also not relevant to the appointment.)
Example: after a few routine questions, she gave me a really hard time about my sex life and actually laughed about it for a few minutes. She then proceeded to give me unsolicited advice about what my sex life SHOULD look like, in her opinion (something you never expect to happen in the liberal city of San Francisco, yet here we are). Doctors shouldn't be talking to their patients like this - they should be focused on listening to health concerns, prescribing birth control, and testing for STD's. I am over 30 and wanted a routine pap smear done (my previous one had been abnormal). Dr. Nagar kept lecturing me about how that specific procedure was only done every 5 years. FINE. But at the very least, can we please at least address the concern I have? Unfortunately, I walked away from that appointment without any solutions.
Another example: I told Dr. Nagar what I did for a living and how it affected the other medical condition I had. Dr. Nagar, again, laughed. She proceeded to chatter happily about how she would have ALSO done what I do for a living - had she decided to "become a loser" and not go to medical school. Wow.
Someone on here complained about Dr. Nagar being from India. Not sure how that's relevant toward one's ability to be polite. A big part of being a doctor is just having respect for your patients. Bare minimum, keep your thoughts to yourself and just focus on having a professional demeanor.
Anyway, I finally got one of the referrals I needed, but when I called the specialist to set an appointment, they told me they didn't take my insurance. "Your doctor should have known that," the lady on the phone said. "She shouldn't have referred you to us." Ugh. I now have to go through the whole process of getting another referral - which is what I saw Dr. Nagar for in the first place.
I can't honestly say I got the care I needed from Dr. Nagar, and I'm not sure I would trust her with future medical concerns. It doesn't seem like she really wants to listen, and I also didn't appreciate the disrespectful comments she made toward me. For now, I guess I'll shop around and hope my conditions don't get any worse. Hooray for the American healthcare system. read more