Go to Zugan Health Urgent Care instead!!!
Dr. Meller is a dick. No doubt about it. Condescending, combative, rude, dismissive... all words I am now reading in prior reviews and match what I experienced to a "T." Sadly, when you have a minor emergency-type situation, you don't often take the time to yelp local doctors before a friend zips you across town.
I dislocated my shoulder, which I've never done before, and knew immediately that the searing pain was something I needed help with fixing. I walked into another room in my office and tried to explain to my co-workers that I needed someone to pop it into place, but no one knew how, everyone froze and I proceeded to very quickly black out from the pain. The coworker called her friend who'd dislocated her shoulder many times before, who then tried to coach her through how to place it. (Might I mention this mom of 3 kids told her that the pain from this was worse than child-birth. I can't verify this being childless myself but I've been through some crazy sports injuries and this surpassed them all!)
The coworkers thought it best I get seen at urgent care anyway.
All Meller did was walk in the room, bark at me to stand up, announce it wasn't dislocated and then talk over me for about 3 minutes while I tried to explain what had happened (and how I had actually probably managed to get it back into place, hence why my arm was no longer hanging limp in front of my body.) The only time he started listening was when I mentioned blacking out and waking up on the cold floor, where I slowly rotated my elbow up and tried to wiggle it back in... up until then, he was treating me like a silly little girl who had wandered into his office telling stories. My friend who had brought me there asked him how to pop it into place so she could do it correctly in the future, and he told her to "google it" and "go to medical school." This is worse than poor bedside manner, this is poor medicine. Waste of a co-pay and hour of my life.
P.s.
Not that this is relevant to the above, but he's a shrivelly, psoriasis pocked, red-skinned old man who looks like an alcoholic and clearly hates his job. Not someone/somewhere you want to be when you're already not feeling good.
P.s.s. the ladies at the front desk hate their lives too. Not gonna bitch about them because in spite of what Meller believes, many of us women have thick skins and incredibly high pain tolerances. read more