After moving to a new area, I needed a new primary care physician, and decided to rely on reviews…read moreto find one. Dr. Briones had high marks on ZocDoc, and after my experience with her, I am sorry I trusted the reviews as this was one of the absolute worst experiences I've had with any doctor in my nearly 40 years of life. My sister and I decided to use Dr. Briones for our annual physicals. Upon arriving 15 minutes early at her office, the receptionist asked if I had filled out the new patient paperwork through ZocDoc. I didn't realize it was required, so she handed us the paperwork on a clipboard, and I filled out in a few minutes. Then, I waited. Over an hour. When I asked the receptionist if the doctor would be seeing me soon, she snapped: "Well you should have filled the paperwork online." The paperwork that took me 5 minutes in office (in which I was early anyway), was what held up my appointment by an hour? Finally, the doctor pulled my sister and I in for what we presumed was the annual physical. Instead, this is what we got: a confused, distracted doctor who asked our family and medical history while she scrawled it down. A few minutes through the repeating of the information we already provided on the intake forms, her cell phone rang. She said "I have to take this," stepped out for a personal phone call and was gone for ten minutes. She returned even more disoriented. I reminded her she needed to provide a prescription for diagnostic testing for my sister. She wrote my name down, and when I corrected her that it should be for my sister who was next to me, she scribbled it out on the prescription paper. I asked for her to redo it, and her response was that she couldn't since she ran out of prescription pads. A doctor...with no prescription pads? Then, she took both of our blood pressures. She tells us we are both 120 over 80; same exact readings but also the perfect blood pressure? How ironic. The stethoscope was even more haphazard. She barely placed it on the heart and back, and goes "you're fine. You're healthy." She proceeds to take our weights and sends us to bloodwork. That's it. If you remove her inappropriate ten minute phone call, we were probably seated for under 10 minutes total. Cut to a week later, we return to pickup our bloodwork results since she hadn't called with them. We also asked for our medical records. Again, we waited in the reception area for 30 minutes then are told by the doctor, "it was JUST a physical, I don't have records for you." She gives us a copy of our lab printed bloodwork and a paper she was jotting notes down, which come to find out she marked that she completed a number of other tests (eye, ear, etc) that she did not perform during the physical, essentially falsifying the physical report. She didn't review the bloodwork results either. Our insurance provided annual exam was wasted and we learned absolutely nothing, except that this is not a doctor that should be facilitating any PCP work. She runs a weight loss clinic and that seems to be her focus. Do not go here if you want to walk blindly into your health. I still don't know what those lab results mean and I am questioning whether this was even a real doctoral practice. Do yourself a favor and avoid this doctor if you care about your well-being.
