Patel Lalit Md

HORRIBLE! UNTRAINED/​UNQUALIFIED. MONEY HUNGRY. UNFRIENDLY/​NO CARE FOR PATIENT.
I wish I read all these reviews before going here. Didn’t know Unilocal had doctors listed.
Absolute worst experience in my life. Woman at front counter didn’t know what BCBS (Blue Cross Blue Shield) was and forced me to call my insurer back and forth three times before offering me any service.
Went there, receptionists refuse to lend me a phone charger so I could call my parents, not even trying to find me one, insisting nobody in the office had one. After going in for the appointment, I asked the first assistant I saw, who gave me one.
Left saying I’d go to St Louis for surgery so I could be with my family. 5 mins after leaving, they call saying they will set up a surgery date for me ASAP. Never before have they tried to be so helpful. I also already told them I would not be using them and they were trying to pressure me by saying I need you to schedule today otherwise I would miss the lucky opportunity of a early surgery appointment.
After refusing I went to CVS to get paid killers Patel perscribed, but he wrote the prescription date incorrect, so I had to wait 1.5 hours there to get it resolved. Someone from the office had to come deliver a rewritten prescription.
Patel was rude and condescending during consultation. Not what you need when you are in need.

The people giving Dr. Patel poor reviews or calling him a con artist… are straight up crack heads. Not sure who pissed in their Cheerios the day they spewed their negativity, but I’ve been seeing him for years and highly recommend him. He is kind, thorough, and professional. You don’t need an appointment to see him and his office is pretty much always open. He’s so great that, when he left his former practice, I transferred to his new one.
The one thing I will say is that the caliber of his office staff has gone down significantly in recent years. While most of them are still friendly, there is one monster of a human being who works at the front desk. She seriously does not deserve to be employed here or anywhere else. I have never been treated more disrespectfully in my life than I was by her. Since she refused to give me her name (I later found out it’s BELEM, in case you’re wondering), I took her photo; you can find it with this review. If you go to Dr. Patel and she’s the one to greet you, good luck. This woman has the IQ of a goldfish and the social skills of an infant chimpanzee. She needs to leave that chip on her shoulder at home and do her job efficiently and respectfully.
Edit: Today, I received a highly inaccurate and wildly inappropriate message from the receptionist regarding the photograph. As per her request, the photo has been removed; however, just thought I’d share the quality of service you can expect to receive:
«Do me a Favor and take my picture down before i press charges on you for taking a picture without my consent why you mad because you didnt have your 15 $ copay you the broke one hunny»
For clarification, on this particular day, I went to Dr. Patel to receive treatment from an accident that resulted with getting strong chemicals in my right eye. The issue was not that I’m «broke,» but that I accidentally left my wallet in my desk at work after the accident. I’ve been a patient for nearly a decade and have never had an issue being billed in the past. Belem was too lazy and/​or incompetent to do so and waited over an hour to tell me that in order to see the doctor, I needed the cash. For over an hour, I sat in the waiting room with a swollen, bloodshot eye. Also, she really needs to check out the laws of our state before throwing out useless threats. What I did was 100% legal.

This guy is dangerously unqualified! It’s so unfortunate that we had to register with him as our primary GP. I do not trust his prognosis at all!
My husband went to his office after spending a whole day in the ER, two weeks after he had a concussion in India. Of course, he was suspicious to have post concussive syndrome, but we weren’t sure. Dr. Patel, didn’t write him any tests, even the most basic ones. He didn’t send him to get a CT Scan, which I assume is pretty common considering the circumstances. Instead, he prescribed him some antibiotics just because he «guessed» he might’ve picked «something» in India!
Anyway we weren’t happy with his service at all, but unfortunately we didn’t have another choice at that point like many people who desperately need medical care in Brooklyn and that’s all they get!

DO NOT GO HERE. Lalit Patel is a con artist. Not only did he force me to come in for five different office visits for the same problem in order to charge me each time, he also gave me a series of tests without explaining why I needed them, which cost even more. He insisted I go to the hospital for another test that ended up costing me $ 1,500 out of pocket after insurance. He then charged me to read my results. It was very hard to understand him on the phone so he would insist I come into the office and then charged me again. Once I was done with the tests, I was told I needed to drink more water. I PAID MORE THAN $ 2,500 TO BE TOLD I NEED TO DRINK MORE WATER. Never go here. Don’t listen to a word this man says.

I had a good experience with Dr patel. Im surprised about the neg. comments. The one thing I can thnk of is that there are two dr Patel’s, both cardiologists, literally a few doors away from each other. This Patel is in the middle of the block fac ross from the YMCA. He is really great. I felt well taken care of when i went there

Truly creepy. The doctor makes you pay up front in cash. He doesn’t allow anyone at the front desk handle this cash, so all transactions are literally out of his pocket. His staff very clearly hates working here, and they all think he’s an ass. They publicly trash-​talk him in front of patients. Dr. Patel will call you back to his office (you will pay for this) to tell you the results of your first test, only to run a second test on you that you didn’t ask for. Then, of course, you have to pay to go back to find out the results of that, too.
Feels slimy, like getting a cheap prostitute at a truck stop HoJo.

DONT EVER GO HERE. This place is such a waste of space. Unprofessional staff; DR is an asshole.

WORST DOCTOR EVER! I went as a walk-​in because my regular doctor was closed for the holiday and I desperately needed a seizure medication. Even though I had prove of the meds I needed and that I had been on them for a long time (none of them addictive or controlled substances, so obviously I wasn’t just trying to get high). First, the receptionist (who claimed to be a doctor) told me that my insurance required a deductible. I KNOW that I had surpassed my deductible for the year because I’ve been to doctors all year without this problem. Then, she told me she would take my insurance but tried to charge me the maximum co-​pay. After all of this, the receptionist (claiming to be a doctor) and the actual Dr. Patel locked me in a room (seriously, I couldn’t get out and she blocked the door) while they explained to me that they would not write me my medications for various reasons, none of them legit. WORST experience ever. I ended up in the ER later in the day because of their incompetence.