I never write bad reviews. Most of the time I just try to move on with my life after an unsatisfactory interaction with someone. But my treatment, specifically by Dr. Radhika S. Breaden, was so extraordinarily poor, I felt compelled to take the time to write this despite my plans to get a referral to another provider and never see her again.
My insurance through my employer recently changed. As a result, my CPAP supply provider is no longer covered by my insurance. I contacted Pacific Sleep Program to get a referral to another provider. At that time, they told me I had missed my annual check-up (which they never contacted me about) and had to come in to be seen, but that if I did, they could provide supplies for me under them. (This previously was not possible with my former insurance.) The front desk worker told me they had a cancellation for 8am the very next morning, and I moved a bunch of meetings so I could come in and see the doctor and get set up. This is my first visit back to the clinic since my original diagnosis over a year ago. I have not been contacted by this provider at all in the intervening 14 months for follow-up.
At no point does the very nice woman I talk on the phone tell me that I need to bring my CPAP machine in with me to my appointment. Additionally, because the software I use for my CPAP tells me repeatedly, as does my supplier in emails, that the doctor can download all my sleep data (which I can also view on my phone), it doesn't occur to me they need it. And since I've never had a follow-up visit, I have no previous experience telling me that I need to do so.
At 6:30am, I drive an hour from my house to the appointment only to find that when I get there, the doctor refuses to see me without the machine. Further, she lectures me about how it could not possibly be their fault, that they most definitely did tell me to bring it, that their staff read from a script and this is all on me. Recently I have been feeling very tired and have been nodding off in the day, so I know I need an adjustment, and I just wanted to talk to the doctor. She tells me without the machine she cannot and will not talk to me and doesn't 'feel comfortable' billing me for a full appointment to talk to me when she can't give me any specific information. This despite the fact that I have NORCO, use Dreammapper, and can literally see my data on my phone in my hand at the appointment.
I say fine, that I will leave and come back but I'd like to get set up with the supplier in the mean time because it will likely be weeks before I can come back due to work. She says I cannot do get supplies until she has seen me, that they don't do it until there is a check-up. I go back into the lobby, she follows me, continues to berate me, insisting that this is all my fault, that they told me to bring the machine and asking me again and again why I didn't. I tell her I don't want to argue about it but she keeps pestering me. Eventually I burst into tears and say that I will just leave. She then FOLLOWS me into the hallway and I have to ask her again to please let me leave. I have to physically get into the elevator to get her to leave me alone.
This is the worst experience I have ever had with ANY medical care provider in my life. I had a rough experience with my sleep study, but I know that can be common, so I never said anything about it. But out of the three total interactions I have had with this provider, two of them have been terrible.
I will *not* go back to this clinic. I cannot recommend against this clinic enough. read more