If you want to stay alive, & when you EVEN SEE this QUACK's name, RUN for your LIVES!! He HOLDS GRUDGES AGAINST his own patients & REFUSED to WRITE a REFERRAL for them if they WANT & NEED a 2nd OPINION for their gastroenterology PROBLEMS while he CAN'T HANDLE the "Task"!! He ONLY CARES about his own EGO than the HEALTH of his PATIENTS!!
When I just moved back to NYC from Long Island some 13 years ago, I had to find myself a new PCP & a new Gastroenterologist & I got his background from my health insurance, he was an NYU Med. School grad & affiliated w/ NYU, so I felt kind of comfortable to choose him as BOTH my PCP & my G.I. doctor!! I am prone to have bleeding ulcers & GERD, & when work & life stressed me out, I had developed IBS!! Every OTHER WEEK I would be DONE w/ 1/2 a box of 12 IMODIUM AD!! My friends joked about if I own stock from the company that makes Impdium AD, I'd be RICH by then!! He did both a upper & lower G.I. series IN his OWN OFFICE, after the procedures, he did care if the SEDATIONS he put in me was totally OUT of my SYSTEM, him & his office staff just told me I was ready to go home w/ my head still was "IN the CLOUDS" & I almost PASSED OUT IN the MIDDLE of the 2nd AVE. & ALMOST GOT HIT BY the MTA BUS IF I DIDN'T CRAWL for the REMAINING FEW STEPS to the SIDEWALK, USING my CANE to STAY ALIVE, yes I'm a physically challenged lady who walks w/ a cane!! I was tired of missing out on work & Church every 10 days & lived in the bathroom for the rest of the 4 like CLOCKWORK!! He absolutely REFUSED to find a way to "HELP" me, just told me if problem came, just take the Imodium AD!! My friend found me a great G.I. doctor @ NY Presbyterian where she works, I asked his office for a referral to see that doctor for a 2nd opinion, but he ABSOLUTELY REFUSED to GIVE me 1 for OVER 3 WHOLE WEEKS UNTIL I called my insurance to COMPLAINT & they "threatened" to TAKE him OFF their PROVIDERS' LIST & my then insurance was Empire Blue Cross & Blue Shield, 1 of the largest health insurance co. in NYS!! Then within a day, I saw a fax of a referral for me to see the G.I. doctor @ NY Presby. came through my fax machine & under the new doctor's care, after 3 changes of medications in 1 month, when the new doctor called me back in 2 month to checked up on me, he asked how was my lower G.I. system doing, I then played w/ him by saying that I "never" did had any problem, what was he talking about?! We got a good laugh, I thanked him & ever since my IBS had never come back once until today, 11 years later!! A month after I got that referral, I DITCHED QUACK Cho & found myself a great new PCP who was educated @ the SAME med. school as QUACK Cho, but older & w/ more experience & to him, PATIENTS NEEDS ALWAYS COME FIRST, his EGO ALWAYS COMES LAST!! To bad, so sad, he retired on me 3 years later but he pointed me to the right direction to find a new PCP @ Horizon Medical Group on East 34th Street's D.O.C. Building, & one of the founders of the practice, Horizon Med. Group, Dr. Kirschner who is as great & as "egoless" as my retired PCP & is also affiliated w/ Beth Israel Petrie Division, 1 of the greatest hosp. In NYC & he, as my PCP & my cardiologist, has taken care of me for OVER 9 YEARS, & he always make himself available for all his patients regardless of what kind of insurance they carry, & make sure his patients' health always come first!! He's stuck w/ me, saw my health to go from hell & back to where it suppose to be, & making sure I stay this way!! Most of all, he is very easy going, soft spoken & let his patients feeling easy & comfortable to talk to!! Just hope he isn't going to retire on me any time soon, if ever!! As Great PCP is just EXTREMELY HARD to FIND!! read more