I can completely understand the previous reviewers low ratings for Dr. Habaradas. Often times she gives the impression that she's very rushed and only has X amount of time for you before she's off and running to the next patient.
However, once you put your foot down and pretty much say, "Dangit, I have a list of questions and you're GOING to answer them", her go-go-go mentality seems to simmer down a bit (at least, it did for me).
All that being said, I probably would have given her a solid three star review had it not been for experience during the last week of my pregnancy / birth. I had planned to go all natural, no drugs blah blah blah until we were almost two weeks past my due date. Dr. Habaradas said we could keep waiting as neither the baby or I was in distress, but the little nugget kept dropping and then going back up, and all I wanted was this baby OUT of me! So we settled on a C-Section. This is where the extra star came in.
I'm pre-med, and very hard to gross out, so I asked if she would walk me through the C-Section step by step. She was obviously uncomfortable with it (understandable. I don't think I'd want to tell someone the details of how I'll be slicing them open in two days time) but she walked me through each and every step, and told me what the procedures would be if anything were to go wrong. For me, this was totally comforting, partially because I'm a control freak, and partially because I knew my doctor knew exactly what she would be doing.
At the end of everything, we have a healthy baby and a healthy (both physically and mentally) mommy. Woosah. read more