It pains me to write this review, because I really like Dr. Marsh. But the staff at this office is THE. ABSOLUTE. WORST. They make mistake after mistake after mistake. I've lost count of the errors they've made since I started going there in 2020, but here's an account of just the last two weeks:
After a televisit with Dr. Marsh, he agreed to send a prescription to my pharmacy. Looking at my chart, he asked if it should be sent to Walgreens in Studio City, and I reminded him (for the umpteenth time) that no, it should be sent to Rite Aid in South Pasadena. (I have told his staff over and over and over again that I've moved, yet my chart never gets updated.)
I also needed a letter from Dr. Marsh for a specific reason, which he promised to prepare. He said I needed to drop by to have blood drawn, and at that time, I was to pick up the letter.
Two days later, I stopped in to have blood drawn--but no one could find the letter. And of course, Dr. Marsh wasn't in the office that day. That was a Thursday. So, the staff pledged to get the letter from him the next day (Friday), and they said they'd email it to me.
Naturally, Friday came and went without a peep from anyone in the office. Monday I called the office and asked about the letter. No one knew anything about it. Of course they asked with whom I had spoken, but in an office with literally dozens of employees, I don't spend my time memorizing each one's name. When someone in a professional office looks you in the eye and says they'll do something, you sort of assume they have a system, and it will be done. But not in this office. Eventually someone promised that the letter would be sent later that afternoon (Monday).
Well, that afternoon, I got a letter with instructions--in Spanish. While I love the fact that Los Angeles is multicultural, there is nothing--NOTHING--in my chart that indicates that I'm a Spanish speaker.
So I had to call the office, yet again, to ask that the letter and instructions be sent in English. Again I was asked who had sent the Spanish letter. Well, how the hell should I know? The office has my email address, and someone sent the letter. Don't they keep records of who communicates with patients? I guess not.
Later that day I received the letter and instructions in English.
Cut to this week... The prescription that I received two weeks ago isn't working. So I asked them to ask the doctor to please send in a prescription for another medication. They said that would be no problem.
Two days goes by, and I don't hear a peep. So, I called the office again to inquire, and I was told that I would receive a call. That was on a Tuesday. No one ever called on Tuesday, but early on Wednesday morning someone called and left me a voice message. And what did she say? She said the new prescription had been sent to Walgreens in Studio City .
(See above.)
So I had to call the office, yet again, to inform them that ONCE AGAIN they had sent the prescription to the wrong pharmacy. I asked the young woman why this keeps happening when I've told them--over and over and over and over again--that I no longer live in Studio City. She said it's because my chart shows Studio City in my "history."
This is the level of incompetence we're dealing with.
They have NO MECHANISM for dealing with patients who move from one city (or neighborhood) to another? Really? There's NO way to indicate, on my chart, that I've moved?
She said she would write on my chart, "Please do not use Studio City pharmacy." But that rang a bell: I had been told that same thing in the past--but clearly it doesn't work!! So, I asked her what can be done to PERMANENTLY change the pharmacy in my chart. She said she didn't know, so she said she'd "ask a colleague" what could be done.
Seriously?!
So, apparently there's no mechanism in this office for indicating a patient's preferred pharmacy. Once you use ONE pharmacy, they have NO WAY of changing it. So, if you move, all prescriptions will be sent to the OLD pharmacy, no matter how many times you tell them you've moved.
The examples above are just *two* of the MANY incidents I've experienced with this office. This office is RIFE with incompetence. RIFE.
The only reason I stay is because I like Dr. Marsh, but honestly, I'm getting closer and closer to throwing in the towel and finding another internist.
UPDATE:
Above I mentioned that a certain prescription wasn't working, so I'd asked for a different one, which they sent to the wrong pharmacy. The next day it was sent to the correct pharmacy. Today I checked with the pharmacy--only to discover that instead of a different medication, they sent in another prescription for the SAME medication that I told them ISN'T WORKING. And of course the doctor is out of the office for the rest of the week. read more