Buffalo Medical Group P.C.

First off the office staff is ignorant, lazy, rude, entitled and mean. they never did any work and almost cost my husband his job for not filling out FMLA paperwork. The wait in the waiting room was usually over 40 minutes or longer. Our doctor, Dr. Lopez, met us for our initial visit where we addressed our medical issues and some medical concerns and goals. He seemed very nice the first 2 or three. is it’s, but he changed very quickly for no reason (I asked why he was irritated with us and he didn’t say anything). At the time, I was 245 pounds and was barely eating and worked out moderately through the week, each week. I wasn’t loosing weight, I even gained a few pounds and you could see that I hadn’t lost any fat in my mid section, but I had some muscle tone showing. when I had him check me out, especially for my thyroid and he said everything is normal and that my health is my fault. I have arthritis, fibromyalsia, missing discs in my c4/​c5 and c5/​c6, have major nerve damage in my neck which causes major migraines and I know my body and something felt wrong. I was never hungry, I had depression, was gaining some weight even though I wasn’t eating, had a chronic sore throat and my throat would swell. His answer for me til I left his practice was… any medical question followed by him saying «it’s because you are fat». my husband and I finally got fed up and sat down and explained in detail my symptoms, which I double checked the symptoms on Mayo and Cleveland clinic, stating I know that my thyroid wasn’t showing up highly abnormal (just at the low end of normal). he then said «it’s because I am at and need to work out, which I was. then I explained I had had a goiter at 19 (which I told him a half dozen times) and then he said hmmm maybe I should get you to an endocrinologist just to double check. He then still made a few tongue in cheek comments and was generally frustrthat at me for reasons unknown. I saw him two more times after that and found out by my last visit that I have a thyroid disease called Hashimotos disease. After I left Dr. Lopez’s practice at the Buffalo medical group I year later at 247 pounds and after my endocrinologist got me on the rightdose, I am now (a year later) I weigh 174lbs and have gone down 10 pant sizes and went from 2xshirts to m/​l shirts. The only thing I changed from Lopeze’s office is a medicine called Levothyroxine and because of pain issues I stopped working out and still lost all the weight. I have never been so discriminated against before in my life and leaving this doctor was the best thing I could have done.

For The Lab.
This lab is easy to get to and saves me a trip to an external testing company (although they still send some of the tests out). I think the waiting area is comfy and the lab techs friendly BUT the wait can be long. I waited over 30 minutes for a simple blood draw today.

Bad bad feelings about this group and the dr I was seeing there… I had a younger primary car physician there and he was relentlessly aggressive about putting me on Lipitor and I wanted to try to lower my cholesterol with diet and exercise, well he didn’t want to hear it and was insistent on me going on it by giving me coupons for scripts, I dropped my numbers by 50 pts but he told me my plan to do it naturally was «obviously not working «to quote him exactly ‚. Then he started calling me to see if I went and filled the prescription and leaving aggressive messages on my vm, I called him and said I would see him and we’ll see how my numbers are at my next appt, he was very condescending as seemed very angry … I lost 10lbs from 185 to 175 5’10 male 50 yrs old. Normal blood pressure ‚. next thing I got was a letter dropping me as a patient !, nice!!! I believe that this was more about drug company financial incentive than heartfelt concern regarding my physical well being.