i was a patient of Dr. Harvey A Rubenstein MD. His office is always packed with patients waiting their turn. It is routine that i would wait for more than an hour past the appointment time. When i see him, he opens the chart and you feel that he just reads it as you sit there. he prescribes lots In house tests like sonograms and needle suctions,...etc.
It was evident to me that as he talked to me, he is impatient to move on and see the ten or fifteen patients that are camped out in the waiting room. His office overbooks his time as a matter of routine.
As a patient, you certainly do feel that he really is not concerned with your case, you feel that you are another person in along Queue, filing through his office.
I tried to switch to another doctor in the office ( Endocrine Associates, LLC). I could not. His secretary said that he does not allow it.
When I wanted to get my medical records, his office was unfriendly and at times rude. Dr. Rubenstein charged $26 ( he said: there is a charge per page) He even charged for a one page copy of my last sonogram($3)!.
All in all it was a miserable experience for me, i would not advise anyone to undertake it.
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