By Dawn1875 at Yellowbook March 29, 2012
Went to see Dr. Demetriades with a lower back infection called "discitis". He treated it with an oral antibiotic and when questioned why oral cause the normal course of treatment is IV antibiotics I was told that he was sure that oral will take care of it. Two and half weeks later during the follow up, I told him I am still in pain and it is even worse. The ego on this doctor is ridiculous and he is going to end up really hurting someone. He told me that infection is gone and that I need to exercise. When I asked how do you know the infection is gone I was told by him that he is the doctor and went to school for 5 years and I cannot even begin to understand what he already knows. Went to another doctor for a second option and come to find out the infection is not gone in fact it is worse and there is no way the oral antibiotic would do anything they are just not strong enough. This doctors ego really is dangerous apparently his 5 years of schooling did not teach him how to handle a basic text book infection. You have to be your own doctor when seeing Dr. Demetriades! His colleagues on the other hand are very nice and paid attention during their 5 years of school and if it wasn't for them god knows how much damage Demetriades would have done to me. Stay away from this egotistic jerk that has no right to be cause he is not that great of a doctor. Should have know when his colleague had a month wait to see and I got in right away with Demetriades. ...read more
By Dawn1975 at Citysearch March 29, 2012
Back in October I had lower back pain and was told that there really is not much I can do besides some physical therapy 3x a week. That was just not in my budget since my co-pay is $30 a visit. Fast forward to January I went to my primary doctor mentioned to her about the back pain I have been in and she sent me for a MRI. Turns out I have an infection in my L4/L5 vertebrae in my lower spine. It is called discitis and I need to see an orthopedic surgeon asap. I set up an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon but in the meantime did my own research online. Everything I read said that I need to have a biopsy done for them to figure out what type of antibiotic I need and then the next step is to have IV antibiotics for 6 weeks. I went to see the surgeon and he put me on oral antibotics for 4 weeks and told me to come back to follow up in 2 weeks. I questioned what I read and he told me that he is sure this will do the job and I will be fine in a week or 2. Two weeks later I go for my follow up and at this point I am in even more pain. The orthopedic surgeon tells me that infection is gone and referred me to see a pain management doctor to have steroid injections done for the pain. I asked him how does he know the infection is gone and believe it or not his response to me was "do you have 5 years because I went to school for 5 years to know what I know and you cannot even begin to understand what I know unless you have 5 years to dedicate to medical school". I could not believe he said that to me. I got up left and went to the pain management doctor who is in the same large practice as this jerk was in. The pain management doctor first words to me were "how do we know the infection is gone cause I cannot do anything until I know for sure it is gone". I told him what the jerk said to me and he could not believe it and also told me the treatment he gave me would never work to kill the infection. I went to see another doctor the next day and he did an x-ray the infection has gotten worse and he admitted me to the hospital. He told me I needed to have a biopsy done and receive IV antibiotics and that an Infectious Disease doctor would be able to tell us what the correct antibiotics would be for the type of infection I have. While in the hospital on Saturday I saw the infectious disease doctor and she told me that since this jerk put me on oral antibiotics she cannot do the biopsy because the oral antibiotic would just screw up the results and I have to wait at least a week and she released me from the hospital. So here I am waiting for the oral antibiotics to be out of my system so that I can get the biopsy and hopefully be on the road to recovery. The pain has gotten worse and I am on vicodin just to be able to get through the day. So I am telling my story to vent but to also let everyone know to not just trust a doctor cause he is a doctor. You have to be your own doctor and if something does not seem right do not sit back thinking he is the doctor and knows what he is doing. Stay away from this egotistic jerk that has no right to be cause he is not that great of a doctor. ...read more
By jginnane at Yellowbook June 02, 2011
A couple years ago my wife was in an accident requiring physical therapy. We selected Seaview for convenience' sake. In our admission documents we wrote that we only wanted treatment to the extent covered by our car insurer. We reiterated this directly, face to face, to Dr. Berkowitz.||[]||[]About a year later, Seaview informed us that GEICO had disallowed Seaview's charges as excessive, and wanted us to pay a ~$300 balance. (GEICO never told us about any billing discrepancy, so we don't even know if the claim is legitimate.) We told Seaview's billing department that treatment was only authorized to the extent of what was provided by our insurer, and that this was made clear in writing and in direct verbal communication.||[]||[]Seaview turned this over to their phony collection entity, "SA-VIT Assoc." Now both our credit ratings are damaged by Seaview/Berkowitz's improper and unethical actions, over this unauthorized and likely illegitimate bill (for less than $300).||[]||[]We are in the process of hiring a lawyer to sue Berkowitz for damages and legal expenses, which will be much higher than the amount Seaview claims is owed them. SHAME on Seaview!!!||[]||[]If you have read this far and are considering using Seaview -- ask why the support staff is >10X as large as the number of medical practioners. They milk this insurance stuff to the bone. We all pay for Seaview's greed.||[] ...read more
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