Tow-Der Esther MD FACOG

If I could give less than one star I would. Horrible bedside manner so sarcastic and conceded. You are definitely a number when seeing this doctor. Not going to go into detail on my specific situation but all I can say is she dropped the ball overlooking my wife’s situation and if not for an ER visit, could have been a devastating situation for my family. Would not sent my worst enemy to this moron.

Oh, Dr. Tow, it is about time I give my review of her practice. She did not do our prenatal care but did deliver my baby last year when I had the misfortune of going into the hospital during her on-​call shift.
I would describe her bedside manner except that would imply she has any manners. Before the birth she was curt, impatient, demeaning, rude, …need I go on? After the birth she did not check on me or the baby once, limiting her interactions with my family to demand my husband delete some of the birth footage he recorded. When I left the hospital and had a reaction to one of the medications she prescribed her office would not let me set up an appointment. Neither would they let me schedule my six-​week surgical follow up appointment. «You are not her patient,» they insisted, while simultaneously mailing the bill to my house.
Regarding her recommendations during the birth, they were neither evidence-​based nor followed ACOG Practice Bulletin recommendations. Her treatment seemed based on her own convenience and not on my or my child’s well being as she tried to rush me into agreeing to interventions to speed up the birth process. She did not provide information for me to give informed consent to the treatment, but instead threatened that my baby would die if I tried to get a second opinion, and she knew I felt coerced because I told her I only consented under duress. What an awful birth experience!
I highly recommend you Google this doctor as well as read the filtered reviews. I am certainly not the first woman she has mistreated. Do your research! You don’t want your low-​risk pregnancy ending traumatically because of a bullying obstetrician.

I was a patient of Esther’s from about 13 — 18 years old.
Here’s her business profile:
She was my first OB-​GYN so I don’t have many to compare her to, but I would say my patient experience with her had been very inadequate.
When you’re in that line of business, of course she probably handles a lot of patients that are experiencing both pregnancy & teen sexuality. Though from my perspective… all medical patients should be treated individually (obviously) since no one individual has the same issue.
She however, right from my first visit at thirteen was trying to prescribe birth control as a «preventative» even though I was very insistent that I was NOT sexually active nor did I plan to be for years to come.
Years later as an adult, I shared that I had been sexually active at that point, she was more reserved on the issue of birth control. However, I started to complain about having terrible menstrual cramps & what does she recommend? «Well, actually, birth control can help facilitate with cramps»
It’s sad when my only memories of my gyno are of trying to aggressively push for the use of birth control without, in my opinion, actually listening to any problems with my body that I may have been experiencing at the time.