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| - Starting this off, I am no doctor. The closest I have is a live in nurse girlfriend; when I go to the doctor, I tend to be in a bad way and it's because I need medical care I can't come across on my own.
I presented symptoms of what I thought to be an upper respiratory infection: facial pain, chills, low grade fever, aching throat, chest pain and wheezing while breathing. Went into this place and was seen within 40 minutes, and presented all of these symptoms to a doctor in residency. Was given an in office treatment of albuterol via a nebulizer after a series of absurd questions regarding symptoms I didn't have. Bear in mind this was from the supervising doctor and not the doctor in residency, who actually attempted an examination.
Doc: "do you have asthma?"
Me: "no"
Doc: "are you sure?"
Me: "still no"
After that treatment, which I admittedly didn't well to, I was asked about some other symptoms. At this point I wanted antibiotics, as this is usually what is prescribed for my frequent upper respiratory infections
Doc: "are you coughing?"
Me: "no"
Doc: "we're going to give you some prescription cough suppressant"
Me: "I don't have a cough; can I have some amoxicillin? That's usually what I get prescribed"
Doc, clearly annoyed: "yeah sure but take the cough medicine".
Get to the pharmacy; low and behold, no antibiotics have been prescribed. This is day 6 with no symptom relief and nothing but cough suppressants for a cough I didn't have and continue not to have; turns out I have a sinus infections that can only be cured with....wait for it....amoxicillin! Jesus jet fuel Christ, if I had a broken rib would I be given medication for heart burn? Or if I had appendicitis, would you send me on my way with Advil and some juice?
Medicine should not be dictated on narrowed views of how medicine should be administered and gut feelings.
I would not recommend this place, not because of waits, over charging, or any other of the complaints on Yelp; don't go here if you want care for the illness you have. My care was a series of random guesses based on symptoms I never presented (I still don't have asthma). I somewhat get the aversion to prescribing antibiotics , especially during flu season, but they were developed for a reason. To help you body get past an illness. If a medical professional won't help get you past your illness for what ever reason, then they have ceased being useful to you.
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