Have been seen by this physician group for about a year. In general, the physicians nor nurses…read morewere NEVER concerned with returning calls even after numerous (6-8 times) I left messages with the receptionist. There was a time I needed a prescription refilled and had some very concerning questions regarding it that could have been detrimental to my health/mental health. After about 5 calls and leaving messages, I simply just gave up. The 2nd issue was more recent. I left 3 messages w/the receptionist and the last attempt at 4th call, I told her that I really needed a return call from the nurse or doctor or I will go to another provider. The receptionist told me: "You're not going to talk to me that way"...and she hung up on me. After that, the nurse finally calls me few hours later (most likely to cover her a$$ that they "called me back" and at that point, I was no longer willing to work with that group. This is a very "low class" practice and would never recommend to anyone.

Linda Blasengame, the APN who I see is wonderful. It's like having a knowledgeable friend working…read morewith you to get to the root of your health issues instead of a doctor letting you know how much of his precious time you are waiting by existing and by daring to suggest that you might know anything about your own body. I may never have an MD as my PCP again. But the Pediatrician, doctor Mapes, is another matter. I'm not sure she even realizes that her patients don't cease to exist when they leave her office. She doesn't even glance at the file and pretend to know our names. On our last visit the referred to my son as a 'teenager'. He is nine. And he was standing right in front of her. I tried to talk to her about getting my son back on an inhaler for his asthma, which he was diagnosed with at two years old. However, I stupidly mentioned that one doctor he saw one time wasn't sure if he had asthma or if his symptoms were caused by his allergies. I did also tell her that he has had a chronic cough for over five years with bouts of exactly the same kind of bronchial-spastic coughing that lead Linda to diagnose my asthma earlier this year. Now she says she cannot treat him for, diagnose him with, or even test him for asthma unless she witnesses his cough being chronic, this though he has had it every time she has seen him. Her logic as far as I understand it is that it is not chronic unless he has it when he is well and he is not well because he still has a cough. I told her that he has wheezing and shortness of breath with mild physical exertion, and she told me flat out that that doesn't mean anything because my son and I are both fat. We are fat, but not too fat to walk a block without wheezing and shortness of breath. But clearly all we were to her was a couple of stupid fat people with no other characteristics that matter. Throughout the entire conversation she kept 'accidentally' replacing the word 'asthma' with 'diabetes', which as far as I know, does nothing to explain a chronic cough. Finally she said that she will only try to get him evaluated for asthma if we do extensive testing for every other 'more likely' thing it could be first and starts telling my now terrified and humiliated child how much blood they are going to draw and how many times he will have to get stuck with a needle if I keep pushing this. Needless to say, we are looking for a new pediatrician.

Dr. Clardy was my son's pediatrician for the first year of his life. My son was on ARKids and Dr…read more Clardy was the only ped that I could find that was taking patients. Now I know why. I have insurance through my job now and I had (as if the decision was hard) to change pediatricians and so I am writing this review to basically warn people about what they're about to encounter with Dr. Clardy. Dr. Clardy has ZERO manners. He apparantly ranks somewhere in the military world and treats all parents as if we're idiots that had no business having children, even those of us with college degrees that present ourselves in a very professional manner in his office and out. When my son reached the age that he began to be afraid of going to the doctor and started crying at his check ups, Dr. Clardy began being short with my child. My child was a late walker so as he was screaming his little head off at 14 months old Dr. Clardy was trying to force him to stand up (which he could do, but wouldn't because he was upset) so he grabbed him up and shoved him to me and told me to take him that it was no use. I never went back. I've heard nothing but bad things about him and was told by our new pediatrician that he knows that Dr. Clardy is "an ass." Dr. Clardy obsesses over fruit juice, sports, trampolines, sleeping in a bed or on the floor, and walkers in that he thinks they're all extremely dangerous and shouldn't be in the home. You'll not know the full extent of that side of him until you've been in his office. It's comical (because of his absurdity) now that I look back on it, but I will never use him or refer him to anyone so long as I live. What a sad life, to be so bitter and strict and be the care giver of children. How sad not to be liked by....well....anyone.