I had a traumatic experience with the Dr Justin DiScalfini. He was so arrogant, condescending, and…read morecruel. I suffer from diagnosed ptsd and chronic illness. This man told me I was using my past suicide attempts as "an excuse" (his exact words) because I just didn't want to work. He only saw me once for the duration of one hour and decided my symptoms weren't severe and debilitating enough. After just seeing me once for one hour. When I told him saying a patient is using a suicide attempt as an excuse is wrong, he said "are you gonna keep repeating that?" instead of acknowledging what he said of explaining it, because he had no explanation for his statement. Two of my doctors, that had been seeing me for years, had already signed a paper that day and wrote a long letter for me determining I was unable to work.
While describing my horrific life-altering symptoms which I have been involuntarily hospitalized for, he asked me why I didn't "just smoke some weed"or get into a relationship. He also told me I was lying about my symptoms of extreme anxiety, panic, and nausea because I "could make a phone call." As if disabled people cannot make phone calls or advocate for themselves.
He said "a lot of people with anxiety can work, so you should be able to too." I was so shocked I recorded the conversation and have an entire recording of everything he said word for word. I played this recording to family members who witness my daily suffering, a member of the disciplinary committee of medicine and my doctor, and they were all horrified and disgusted after listening to the recording and questioned how he could even be in this field.
When he dismissed my illness and the suffering, I asked him if he would be able to live with my physical conditions, and he said "No, I don't have to!" in a most flippant tone. He hung up on me at the end of call and refused to reimburse me for the $2000 he charged us for 2 months along with the therapist he was in charge of, Bianca Marro. Bianca Marro had told me after seeing me that she agreed I was unable to work. The last week I saw her, I told her that I had hung out with someone else that week. She then changed her mind about signing my disability paper then (which I no longer needed because my doctors had written a long explanation of the debilitating symptoms of my disability and how it affected my ability to function and signed it. I was not upset about them not singing it. I was appalled by their words and actions. Especially when they told me I was using my suicide attempt "as an excuse.")
Her manager, DiScalfini, and her, then said to me "well, you can socialize" when I asked them how they can tell me my symptoms are not debilitating enough for them. Ironically, this one the one time I socialized in a year, and I ended up injuring myself in an accident left me unable to walk for a year, in severe pain, and I am still unable to walk for more than 10 minutes or function, which has further altered my life because I already had a diagnosed chronic illness. I was diagnosed with a severe pain disease after this injury that was visible with imaging and tests. I attempted suicide two more times after this incident because I was and am in so much pain from this injury and my other chronic illness and I was hospitalized again.
He additionally mocked me and threatened to call the police to hospitalize me because I said what he stated was extremely unprofessional and conflicting with what my actual doctors knew about me. He said "Are you a doctor? No. I am. Don't tell me what to do." I said I didn't want to see him again and he said he would call the hospital if he suspected I was a danger to myself or suicidal if I suddenly cut off the sessions. He asked me if I was feeling suicidal, I said no, and he implied I was lying by saying "Don't just say that because you don't want to go to the hospital. I'm the medical professional here. Do you have a PhD?" He also charged us over 2000 for 4 sessions.
DiScalfini has no empathy for patients with PTSD and other medical conditions and shouldn't be in this field because he is dangerous and lacks clinical knowledge regarding mental and physical illness. I'm still affected by what I experienced with him.