I have been a patient of Nisha Sharma, MD through Dignity Health for several years, and have been very reluctant to see her each time, due to her cold demeanor, ignorance and lack of communication issues. She seemed like the only female available and was taking new patients at the time I established care with her. I noticed for our appointment over the many years she disregards my concerns and interrupts me/talks over me when I am describing symptoms, does not thoroughly check the areas of my body that I have called her for an appointment to examine, but does the bare minimum there just to get paid. Nisha does not listen to me, doesn't explain, validate, or repeat back to me any of what I am expressing to her. If your test results are in the normal range but low, she will not treat you for that condition, like anemia, be warned. She once told me I had no anemia, but my test results were showing low signs of iron. I went to an endocrinologist a month later with my lab results I gave Nisha, and the endocrinologist said I was anemic put me on iron for the last 2 years.
Nisha is sterile, cold, rude and very close minded. She doesn't offer comfort or reassurance about what could be going on with my illness. This last time I went to her because I had sores in my mouth for 4 weeks and had pain in my esophagus/thyroid area. I had already gone to the ER, and now this was a follow up. Right when she came into the room to see me she she was forceful and argumentative when I explained I wouldn't be continuing with the thyroid medication because I believed it was causing me panic attacks. The kind that I would go to the ER for. That is just common sense, not to continue with medication that can cause those events. She felt my neck - in the wrong place where my thyroid was actually located...and I had to explain to her it was further down where my thyroid was. She looked in my mouth for 1 second and said there was nothing wrong. When I asked her to look again more closely she was negative and frustrated and looked again only for me to point out where my sores were - at the tip of my tongue and inside my mouth. When I asked her for some prescriptions to decrease the swelling, pain and redness in my mouth she did not offer any diagnosis/solutions or prescriptions. She misunderstood me entirely saying she was wasn't going to prescribe me anything that I didn't need (like for yeast in my mouth). I said, "I didn't say I had yeast in my mouth!" Before I left I explained that she could of at least acknowledged the fact that I have been in pain for 4 weeks not being able to drink or eat, and she could have offered at least some some prescription lidocaine mouth gel and offer me some possible diagnosis to consider. Instead she referred me to 3 specialists (which I don't need because I have PPO insurance) and gave me no possible indication anything was wrong with my mouth, or the fact that my esophagus was inflamed and It was hard to swallow or breath. Because I said I wasn't going to take that thyroid medication anymore and the fact that I was questioning her skills and really hearing and seeing why I was there that day she basically talked over me and said I should find another DR. I did not feel safe in her space and refused to wait in her treatment room after our appointment was over and she told me to find another DR. I said that was a good idea and I was going to leave. I then received a letter in the mail warning me of my bad behavior. What a bunch of -----. Worst DR ever! read more
