dr harley simeone is an outstanding physician. she often diagnoses…read more issues before the specialist can. dr simeone is dedicated to her patients and her profession i feel fortunate to be a member of her caseload i am looking forward to starting my care with the lown group.

The change to a concierge style practice was unfortunate in that it keeps patients who cannot…read moreafford the $5,000 a year fee to access the doctors in this practice is very disappointing, especially considering it's connection to the Lown Research Foundation. My experience before this change was good.

Excellent physician and saw my son at Boston Children's where he practiced there and is very…read morepersonable and knowledgeable as their caliber of expertise in cardiovascular disease! My son's will always his unforgettable ties, especially the Three Stooges one!

He's been my cardiologist for over 20-years. I have a rare disorder which is easy to miss the…read moresymptoms of, but Dr. Sloss has never been wrong, he has literally saved my life on a number of occasions, he always puts me, the patient, first. He cares more than any other medical doctor ever has and I trust him with my life. None better! He is also one of the most brilliant people I have ever met.

I have been a patient here since 2011 after being diagnosed with a connective tissue disorder. Over…read morethe years I have received excellent care here, not just from my doctor, but also the nurses in the infusion room. My doctor was very patient and persistent, willing to try many different approaches to treating my condition and offered me valuable referrals to address things outside of his expertise.

Quality of care, when available, excellent. When I had a series of issues a year ago Dr. Rice and…read moreChelsea, who worked with him, were responsive and very helpful. Why not rate 5? Because the office was TOTALLY unresponsive for years before... and again in the past year. It could be he has started the concierge device he was discussing but I have not been notified of that. In any case, it is very dangerous to have a cardiologist you can't get in touch with. The office doesn't pick up and messages never get answered.

From the owner: In 1985 Kenneth Rice, MD, FACC, then Director of the Cardiac Stress Lab at Beth Israel Deaconess…read moreMedical Center, opened his cardiology practice in Brookline providing diagnostic cardiac ultrasound, Exercise Tolerance Testing, Stress Echocardiography testing, Holter monitoring, and event monitoring. Stress echo can be safer than nuclear stress testing because if resting images are already abnormal, there is no need to perform the stress part of the test. There is also no radiation associated with Stress Echocardiography testing. In 1993, with Joseph Polak, MD, MPH, then Director of the Non-Invasive Vascular Lab at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Dr. Rice expanded his range of services to include vascular imaging, consisting of cerebrovascular testing, peripheral extremity venous and arterial ultrasounds, and abdominal vascular exams. Talk to your doctor about obtaining a referral and give our office a call!

One of the best in the world. Check him out at www.brighamandwomens.orgread more

I have been a patient of Dr Ravid's practive for 25 years. He has provided me with amazing care…read moreover the years including insightful and in-depth knowledge with cardiology care. Always measured in his approach and very responsive with returning calls and scheduling visits. The office team is super friendly and very qualified. Many of his office staff have been with him for numerous years (Senior members - the entire time I have been a patient). If you are looking for a Cardiologist highly qualified with a seasoned staff - Dr. Ravid / Lown Group would be a good decision.

Very good experience so far. Dr Ress has been very knowledgeable and comforting in his approach. He…read morewasn't rushing through our appointment which I appreciated a lot. I have been very satisfied with my visit.

Dr Haffajee took time to explain my husbands condition and options on how he could be treated. He…read moreanswered all our questions. Didn't feel rushed at all. Also our appointment started right on time.

He did a pacemaker replacement with local anesthesia only, which is not what I was told to expect…read more I felt everything. It's still uncomfortable almost a year later. Never saw him after the surgery, and he didn't give me release papers, so I waited in the recovery room for hours until the nurse finally let me leave. Terrible experience. Still have flashbacks and nightmares.

It sounds very promising. They care very much for Seniors. So far I just spoke to someone on the…read morephone to make an appointment. I'm looking forward to my office visit. I'm so very happy that l found this Wonderful Medical Center. After I hung up l thanked God for watching over me after having a terrible experience with my former Primary Care Physician. I put up with it for years. It was impossible to even make an appointment, they put you on hold for over an hour and 1/2 The secretary told me that it's not their problem If l'm sick and not able to wait for that amount of time even after just being discharged from Brigham and Women's Hospital, Thoracic Surgical Floor from having a Total Gastrectomy and Jujunostomy, I'm not able to eat for the rest of my life. My Primary Care Physician says that he has nothing to do with Boston since he's not out there even though his name is all over my discharge papers. He said that they just do that. When I mentioned this to my Thoracic Surgeon on my next follow up he couldn't believe it.

My initial impression of Dr. Holtzman during my first and only exam on 10/28/24 was not an…read moreentirely positive one. I found his non-medical questions about my personal life unnecessarily intrusive. (I'd already been asked and answered a couple of those questions online as part of the required Zocdoc new patient intake by his office.) One of these was "What is your sexual orientation?" As with Zocdoc, I told him I was straight. He replied with a smile: "Maybe a straight guy who also sleeps with men?" (I believe his precise words were "Heterosexual meaning you like just women, or women and men?") Which left me slack-jawed. A couple unspoken thoughts crossed my mind in quick succession: "Huh? Wouldn't such a guy be a bisexual?" Followed by a recognition of his obvious insinuation, which I found as unprofessional as it was inaccurate. It may be appropriate for a physician to ask a patient's sexual orientation today (I'm 71), but hardly professional to suggest a different orientation to the patient. His next question was "When did you last have sex?" despite the fact that I came to this first office visit presenting no complaints, let alone symptoms, that might suggest an STD or anything else of a sexual nature. Frankly, I had to wonder what the dude's agenda was. He insisted on giving me a referal to his dermatologist colleague, despite my telling him I had seen two dermatologists ---working together--less than a year earlier as a part of the excision of a couple benign facial blemishes. Then when the results of my Qwest lab bloodwork of a week later came back, liver enzymes AST and ALT in my blood were abnormally high, so I messaged him for his interpretation. Unlike my previous PCPs, who would offer a brief interpretation via their patient portals, his terse response was: "See me." Which I interpreted as another office visit. Fortunately, I subsequnetly remembered that I had taken large doses of acetaminophen at the time of the blood draws due to cold symptoms, which temporarily elevates these enzymes' levels. (Mystery solved and money saved.) But I noted his attempt to turn my simple portal inquiry into a billable office visit, not (in fairness to him) unusual in today's profit-focused US medical industry. As physician/author Elizabeth Rosenthal has written: "The 'first do no harm' directive has been replaced with 'first leave no money on the table' ". In the year that followed, he cooperatively issued for me two gastroenterologist referrals with a recommendation for a colonoscopy, (although I should note that the first referral was for a gastroenterologist conncted to a facility from which a hospital approved post-sedated procedure ride home was unavailable to me, which limitation I had made very clear to him during the 10/2024 exam, thus the need for the second referral. In summary, I had no reason to question Dr. Holtzman's overall medical competence, but also no desire to remain in his practice.