This is long, but worth reading before you take your child to this office. Dr. Llinas is a child/adolescent psychiatrist. Our daughter saw him for anxiety/anxiety attacks. She was his patient for a little over two years. Now, away at college she tried to refill her anxiety medication. The pharmacy notified her a couple days later that he denied the refill. She called the office and was treated deplorably by the receptionist. When she asked our daughter about coming in for an appointment, our daughter explained that she is away at a university going to school full time and working part time, so it was very hard for her to get home for an appointment. The receptionist's snide remark was, "Bummer." She proceeded to sarcastically and rudely say, "You mean you didn't come home all summer??" Our daughter explained that she did not as she was working. Our daughter was asking if she could get just a month refill to give her time to find a doctor near her university because she is not supposed to go off her anxiety medication "cold turkey" and was down to one pill. She replied that there was no way the doctor would do that.
So, I called and left a message for both the nurse (Dr. Llinas' wife) and for him on each of their voicemails explaining the situation. I also simply said that the receptionist had been very rude to our daughter and said Dr. Llinas wouldn't do that for her. About an hour later, I received a call from Dr. Llinas. He immediately had an attitude and edge in his voice. This caught me off guard because we had been seeing him for two years. I fully expected that he would be willing to give our daughter at least a week of medication to give her time to make an appointment with a doctor near her university. He treated me worse than any doctor I have ever spoken to on the phone or in person. I understand our daughter was overdue for an appointment with him. I'm not denying that. She last saw him in December. It is now August. However, all he does is talk to her a bit, ask how she's doing on the anxiety medication, and if the dosage is still good for her. When I asked for a month refill for her, he very rudely told me she wouldn't be able to get an appointment within a month with a doctor. I asked for a week of medication. Nope. I couldn't believe he wouldn't even give her one week of her anxiety medicine to at least allow her to wean off it properly if she couldn't get an appointment soon enough. He is the doctor! He knows that it is bad for her to be off of it "cold turkey". Mind you, it is not addictive or a controlled substance, so why he was so rude and unwilling to help was frustrating, to put it mildly. As I was incredulously telling him this, he began interrupting me and YELLING, yes yelling, at me! I said, "I will not allow you to raise your voice at me. Have a nice day. Goodbye." I could still hear him yelling at me as I hung up. ADDITIONALLY, he previously thought my daughter had ADD and put her on medication for it. It didn't help, so she stopped taking it. Upon seeing a psychologist who tested our daughter for a variety of learning issues, we found out she has no learning problems and no ADD. It is all due to her anxiety. Improper diagnosis, willingness to allow our daughter's mental well-being to be endangered, regardless of being due for an appointment, yelling at me, and not caring AT ALL when I mentioned his receptionist's rudeness...NO THANK YOU...WE WILL NEVER BE BACK!! read more