Nina is a very skilled physical therapist, and she trains her staff well. The receptionist is quirky and adorable, but god forbid you have any issue at all, she is completely incompetent, unprofessional, and can cause difficulties for you.
If you have anything other than Cadillac insurance or the ability to pay out of pocket, you will not see Nina Silverman at all.
Here is the note that I sent Nina Silverman this morning... I think you tried to call me yesterday, but I was in a meeting. I think it is better than I change physical therapists. I find it quite objectionable that I can't talk to Nannette about her behavior yesterday morning without her yelling at me and hanging up me. I find it quite objectionable that if I'm 6 minutes late for an appointment, Laura goes and looks up my record from 4 years ago and tells me I have a pattern of being late.
I find it objectionable that when I say I'm having serious sleep disturbance, and 930 and 1030 in the morning isn't working for me, no one makes an effort to help me change to afternoons.
I mentioned that 5 times.
As you can see its 4:41 in the morning, I've been up for 2 hours. I can't sleep, and, on weekdays, if I go back to sleep at 5 o'clock, I won't get my kids to school or to their appointments on time, so I can't do that.
But instead of understanding, I just get these whiny lectures from Laura. I have mentioned this to Laura, I've asked for help with this, but all she does is look disturbed and whine.
Finally, Laura kept saying that she doesn't think I have a commitment to my physical therapy. I've been doing the exercises. I have been on time to eat out of 10 appointments, and only one appointment was a significantly late for, because I was still seeing double from 3 hours sleep.
One day I came in and found that the adorable, quirky Nanette had accidentally deleted my appointment, the appointment that she confirmed with me the day before, and that I had a printout of from the day before.
I waited, Nannette told me that it would be 20 minutes, I ended up waiting an hour and a half. I had to reschedule three things to make my appointment work.
Nannette didn't say oh yes you can get in an hour and a half, she just kept telling me that I was going to be in any minute. Perhaps she's over worked, or perhaps she just has the sort of personality that likes to look like its over worked.
I think the latter is true, as I once was the office manager for a gigantic Holistic Medical Center, and we didn't have the same sorts of neurotic breakdowns that Nanette has regularly.
But I don't have good time management skills. I don't have a commitment to physical therapy.
I'm not saying this to convince you to keep me, I don't really want to ever hear Nanette screaming on my answering machine again. She's unprofessional, and she is the real problem with yesterday's missed appointment.
If she had not said to me it'll be okay, had said there would be a missed appointment fee, I would have come right in, and just used _your_ bathroom for 20 minutes out of an hour.
I could have done that, but she didn't say that she said oh don't worry about it its no big deal you're sick.
Laura brought up an appointment that I had cancelled with 24 hours notice as part of a problem. When I pointed that out to her, she conceded that I had acted appropriately, and then she brought it up again two more times as if she hadn't acknowledged that I had acted appropriately. When I responded to this, she said I was arguing with her.
She did very good work, she was very gentle, I appreciated her care. But she did not address concerns that I had about morning appointments, and she said a bunch of very weird things about my patterns of getting to those appointments when I clearly told her I was having trouble and wanted to reschedule. I don't know what her problem is, I don't know what your problem is. But whatever it is I'm sure there is another physical therapist out there that is competent and and won't be so difficult to talk to you. I am also very sure that there will be another physical therapy office out there that won't have Nanette screaming into my answering machine every other day. read more