Shah Associates - your thoughts?

[awpitt (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Marie

I went there at San Souci back when it was Brenton Medical, it wasnt great than Shaws took over the world and bought it. My Dr is Great!! but I am tired of being treated like cattle. If your sick it takes a week to get in, even if your willing to see another doctor. So you wind up going over to urgent care and sitting there 3 hours with 25 others spewing there germs all over you!
Not real impressed with the staff either, there are only two there that are good the rest seem pretty clueless.

Look else where unless this is a last resort!

I've been going to Breton Medical since before it was Breton Medical and I've never had to wait a week to get an appointment, especially if I'm flexible on which DR I want to see. A lot of times, I'll just ask for the first available appointment and can get in within a couple of days. As far as the Urgent Care side, I guess I've been lucky because I've never experienced a three hour wait. The longest Urgent Care visit I've had was an hour and a half from arrival to departure.

[aanderson]

Originally Posted by Bruzilla

So in the end, Shah sent us to two hospitals and ate up a lot of our time just so they could make some extra money on referral fees. We never went back to them after that. The best doctor we had in 12 years of living in St. Mary's was an older-than-dirt GP who had an office off RT 5. I can't remember the guy's name, but he was super!!! His office was about a block off RT 5, on the road that runs to Country Lakes.

Are you talking about Dr. Bauer...I know Dr. Bauer was sharing an office with another doctor so you may be talking about that doctor.

I see Dr. Bauer and he is wonderful. He is part of the Shaw's now though so if he needs to send you to a specialist then you will usually be sent to the Bean Building. His daughter also works with him and will eventually take over the family practice and she too is wonderful. They have a new office in the new building beside 102.9 off of Rt. 5.

[sockgirl77 (Premo)]

Shah.

[edinsomd]

Its called physician flight, thank Maryland's exorbitant malpractice insurance costs. Here's an admittedly dated, but telling link:
Doctors protest malpractice costs today; Maryland Medical Society fears physician flight if limits are not set.(BUSINESS) - Journal, Magazine, Article, Periodical
Ed

[spike2763]

[quote=Bruzilla;2673923]Here's my Shah story. Back when Lyme disease was all the rage, we found a dog tick on my son. A few weeks later, my son developed a rash in the same general area. I'm no doctor, and the rash didn't look like the one in pictures of a lyme disease infection, but I errored on the side of caution and took him to see the Shahs.

The doctor looked at his for a few minutes, then directed me to go to St. Marys Hospital for bllodwork, then had us drive all the way up to the emergency room at Children's Hospital in DC. So we went to SMH and then drove up to Children's. When the guy at Children's was registering my son, his monitor was turned just enough for me to read it, and on the screen was a field that said "Pay Referral Fee to:", and he was typing in Shah/Associates. I asked the guy what the deal with the referral fee was, and he quickly turned his monitor so I couldn't see anymore and said I didn't have to worry about it.

We had to sit sround for another two hours before we were seen, and the doctor came in, looked at my son for about 10 seconds, and told me I needed to stop at a drugstore, get some Tinactin, and follow the directions on the box. He then went to leave, but I snagged him and said "so this isn't lyme disease?" and he said "no." Then I asked him how it was that a doctor in the city could tell that so fast, while a guy out in the country couldn't, and he started hemming and hawing.

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How long ago was that? Doesn't the insurance pay the referral fee? Do the Shah's have a deal going on with children's and HMOs?

[Southern Belle]

Originally Posted by Marie

I went there at San Souci back when it was Brenton Medical, it wasnt great than Shaws took over the world and bought it. My Dr is Great!! but I am tired of being treated like cattle. If your sick it takes a week to get in, even if your willing to see another doctor. So you wind up going over to urgent care and sitting there 3 hours with 25 others spewing there germs all over you!
Not real impressed with the staff either, there are only two there that are good the rest seem pretty clueless.

Look else where unless this is a last resort!

I went to the urgent care 2 weeks ago. The lady at the front desk told me it would be at least a 2 hr wait as she's sitting there reading a magazine and 2 others are sitting there chatting with each other. I was told that I could call Judy Emerson at 301-373-7979 to complain. I left her a voice mail message last Friday and here it is one week later and she has not returned my call. No wonder the customers are unhappy, they have people like her in charge. I wish everyone would take a minute to call Judy to complain. Even if she doesn't answer or return your call, maybe after flooding her voice mail she will get up off her azz and do something.