My experience in this office of many is with Dr Gulinson not Dr Gallaso.
First note- the overall atmosphere & impression of this office is drab, sad, worn and impersonal. Usually the "baby doctor" is fun to go to. Babies. Pregnant moms. Excited dads. Smiling expectant families gathered in the waiting room. Happy right? Not here.
Check in. Sign in with staff that seem so overloaded, disorganized & disinterested. They call you up 3/4 times to get situated: please sign in. Go sit. Come up w/ insurance & ID. Go sit. Back up here, you owe us from last time. Go sit. Ok now get up here & pay us co-pay for today. LOL Wait, I have to pay a co-pay for surgical follow up? Add Dr wants multiple follow ups for the same surgery? Crazy. When mentioned, a clerk stated "you pay a co-pay here every single time you come here." Righto. Why can't they do all those steps in 1 meeting at the window? Glad I wasn't pregnant and doing all that unnecessary up and down.
Check out. Just about as fun. Phone on ear, disengaged talking to you to re-book in snippets while clicking back & forth on whomever they are chatting with on phone. Had that happen multiple times. Appointment paper handed to me with out so much as eye contact or even a goodbye. Again, overloaded. So much so that the stress shows through.
It's a 1 stop shop. That is a plus. Blood clinic inside. There was 2 attendants, in between break coverage I think. I dunno. Was awkward. Not alot of words or friendly talk to me. Just sit in this closet, "confirm your info" pretty much.
Don't remember the ultrasound Docs name. That was a one and done cold experience in more ways than one.
They are slow to get info to billing (that was actually stated to me) and you may get a big surprise bill months down the road when they catch up with paperwork, as I did.
Undivided personal attention not in the mission statement here. For these reasons alone there is little desire to choose this office anyways.
Actual Dr experience - found this place to establish as new patient for full gyno services instead of using my NP. Getting nearer to menopause & add later for my teenage daughter to connect, thought best for future.
I do give thanks to Dr Gulinson for finding a terrible issue that required surgery. Note- he would not order a relaxer med prior to surgery. They prefer that but I was so scared & a crying mess, full of intense fear as they wheeled me in to surgery room. No easy way to put this, getting tied down & spreading legs open to everyone in a cold room with blinding light was something I would have preferred with a relaxant. Months later, thinking back, I am still traumatized by how thoughtless, terrible & anxiety inducing that was.
Never have I felt that way in other past surgeries.
Onto another follow up & for results from that procedure, I requested a swab for ph imbalance while I was there (which usually you get a script for, remember this part.) Common occurrence for me the past year with NP. Typical issue moving into menopause. Took swab. Now sitting up, naked waist down w/ only the paper sheet over me, says I should come back in a month, again. He whips out my blood results. Goes over them quite thoroughly saying my numbers all suggest I need testosterone therapy & how handy dandy /s that he has a pay clinic that can provide those services! Hands me all kinds of books & paper for his medspa (I have pics if you like) and spends immense time explaining all the stuff I "need" there... even includes the can treat for my low thyroid issue he sees my blood numbers are low on... I am screaming in my head "did I just get poached???" I felt down right violated in this position. When I asked defensively, can you treat my thyoid nodules too? No, we don't do that. What? You would try to treat a low thyroid patient w/o the full scope of what could be causes? Sadly, trust & confidence was lost right there. I ask, what if I cannot afford your pellets? Shrugs shoulders. Wow. Maybe I am picky but this seemed wrong. He was about to walk out leaving me feeling I had no recourse at this office. I piped up... may I have my test results I came for? Shuffling papers for answer... your're fine, negative. Get dressed. Then I kinda had to flag him down standing at the computer to ask, will you be calling in a script for me? Yeah, yeah, wave.
The end part - made the 1 month appt. While waiting for script that never arrived, the thought of going was a stress to me. On reminder call to show up I decided to cancel which was in amply time. Ting... got a pharmacy notification for script filled for the ph imbalance medicine, a MONTH LATER! They called again for I think missing the appointment or another reminder?! LOL I almost lost it explaining when & who I cancelled with and to tell the higher ups that the script showing up a month later and this ridiculousness of scheduling dept. not properly canceling were yet more reasons I was done doing "care" here. read more