I cannot speak to the quality of care that Dr. Mervyn Lifschitz provides but I can tell you that, if it is anything like the professionalism that his staff showed to my wife and I after we missed an appointment, he clearly should have his license revoked. Our primary care provider recommended Dr. Lifschitz only because he was closer to us than the other physician she wanted to recommend. But when Dr. Lifschitz could not see my wife in a reasonable amount of time our Dr. recommended that we go the extra distance to see her initial recommendation. The appointment that was made with Dr. Lifschitz was forgotten about in the confusion and while it is true that they made a follow up call to remind us, the call was made to my phone and not my wife's phone and I confused the appointments, thinking that is was not necessary to follow up. Shortly after missing the appointment we received and extremely rude message from a woman in his office. When I called to sort it all out I was met with an amount of smugness and disrespect usually reserved only for those most spiteful bill collectors with zero integrity. To be sure, it eventually came down to money and how they were going to send me a bill for $70 because, ""your missed appointment results in our losing money."" Well I agree you should get paid, but to allow your patients (or, otherwise would be patients) to receive that sort of treatment from your office? Shame on you Dr. Lifschitz; shame on you.
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