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| - Two stars because the experience was not an unqualified disaster, but I would not recommend Doctor Lieber.
I hadn't had a physical in awhile, and needed a new primary care doctor for my new insurance. I put this off for awhile, but then I broke my toe and that spurred me to get it done since I figured he could reassure me about the toe at the same time.
Making an appointment was easy and the office/desk was nice and helpful. The visit with the doctor was rather perfunctory. He did a quick physical, and took a glance at my toe, referring me to get it X-rayed. He said that if the break was above a certain point, I'd be fine just taping my toes together and waiting for it to heal. But if it was lower, he'd want to refer me to a foot specialist. So far, fine. I would have preferred a bit more interest in getting to know a new patient, but whatever. I appreciated the thoroughness about the toe injury, I had expected just a simple "yeah, not much we can do, just tape it".
I got the toe X-rayed. The next day (Friday), I received a recorded phone call telling me to call into the doctor's message service (they had told me about this service at the visit). I call in and hear a recording of the front desk person struggling to read the diagnosis: "Your X-rays came back. You have a non-displaced 5th proximal phalanx fracture." End of message.
Clearly, since I have a medical degree this is useful information to me! I did a bit of quick googling, and I *think* it meant I was fine with just tape, but I called the office to see what they had to say. Doctor Lieber was out already, so she left a message for him about my (I think rather reasonable) query.
Today is Monday, and the desk just called me back.
Desk person: "Doctor Lieber says he can refer you to a podiatrist."
Me: "Uh, do I need that? I thought that was only going to be necessary if the break was lower down in the foot. Is that where it is?"
Desk person: "Well, he doesn't think it's necessary, but he'll refer you if that's what you want."
Me: "No, I just want to know what he recommends. If I don't need it, then I don't want to go to a podiatrist."
I can't remember what she said after that, but nothing helpful.
So, tl;dr; Doctor Lieber referred me to get X-rays, and the only follow up I received after that was a badly read message containing the technical name for the bone I fractured. After attempting to follow up, he offered to (I think) unnecessarily refer me to a specialist. I never received any kind of actionable medical advice from Doctor Lieber about my injury. The search for a doctor continues.
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