Bariatric Surgeons - Paramus, NJ

"I had a lap band installed in 2012. It was okay, nothing to warrant 4 stars. His office was busy, but I could get an appointment and follow up. DIsliked he wanted barium swallow each monthly visit and my insurance did not cover so I had to pay $260 out of pocket for each visit. I stopped going. Spent 10 years until I decided vomiting and pain were enough to go back to get it removed on May 31, 2022. My first appointment was almost 1.5 hours late. My surgery was fine, but I never got to have a follow-up because he was overbooked, apparently. I scheduled a telehealth mid-June which he first rescheduled and then promptly missed - just never showed or sent me the link. I called his service and they got back to me the next week with a new appointment time - in mid July! For a surgical follow up from May! Did they care that my incision got infected and I had to take care of it on my own? Who knows, they never cared to ask. Then end of June they call and ask I move up my mid July appointment to July 7th. Great! Called me the next day to cancel that because "he is also a surgeon and cannot see patients that day". So now I am asked to move to the 11th - but now in his new office because he just joined a new practice with "50 other doctors". You are a fool to think I am going to travel to sit in another office for 1.5 hours for an appointment where he is going to look at my 2-month healed incisions. I ask for telehealth - okay, the next appointment he has is on July 28th! Are you freaking kidding me? Pushing me out to the end of July to follow up on surgery from the end of May? Why? What is the point? I was planning on the sleeve revision and was all ready to begin again, but I am going to begin with a new doctor, one whose staff can manage their office and not overbook the doctor, disregard the patients, and act like rude clerks doing you a favor for even trying to schedule you with such a busy surgeon. In all, the doctor is fine, he is not hurting for patients and is capable, and my surgery was fine despite an infection from separating at the main incision that cleared up with antibiotics and wound care."