Honore Lansen, MD

Dr. Lansen is BY FAR the best doctor I’ve had since moving to NYC 10 years ago. She is kind, prompt, super helpful, fun to talk to, and very attentive. I have had the typical New York rushed, cold, unorganized doctors in the past and she is NOT one of them. Dr. Lansen has helped me with a myriad of medical needs from anxiety, to sinus infections, and even ovarian cysts. She is a GEM. For real. I am shocked she has a bad review.

I joined One Medical after hearing amazing things about this practice. I called in and mentioned the kind of issues I needed to discuss: hormonal, thyroid related, birth control. They then suggested I see this woman who calls herself a doctor.
I went to see her and I clearly had laryngitis because I kept coughing and my voice left a lot to be desired. She first mentioned ‘oh, so you have laryngitis, but that is not why you are here today…’ and completely ignored the fact, not checking my throat and lungs, not asking how long I had had it, etc.
In the half hour I was with her she barely made eye-​contact, keeping her gaze on the screen… as I later found out, seeking info she lacked.
We discussed my thyroid issues and the birth control options before me. We talked about the option of a diaphragm, she is, after all ‘a birth control expert’ and I asked how it works. She said you stick it in before sex and immediately after sex you pull it out. I asked ‘really? immediately after?’, she repeated herself and said yes, immediately after. I mentioned that I had read somewhere that in order for it to work it has to remain inside for at least a few hours.
She then said she would look it up, she turned to her computer and printed out a page, where it said the diaphragm had to be kept inside at least six hours. She was too wrong to mention.
I mentioned I could start using that method after the hormonal period of the current method is over. She said I didn’t have to wait for that period to be over, who cares I have hormonal issues, let’s mess with them a bit more and interrupt an estrogen dose just because!
I asked her if the hormonal birth control had anything to do with my thyroid, and she said it didn’t, because, as the all knowledgeable doctor said, there is no scientific fact that hormones are related!
I asked her if the fact that I quit smoking at the same time I started with the hormonal birth control had anything to do with the fluctuation in my body… she said it did not… of course, why would it? I mean, nicotine doesn’t affect metabolism, does it? I mean, that wouldn’t be the reason millions of people use it to lose weight, right?
I asked her how effective a diaphragm really is as birth control, she answered, ‘well, you can use it if you don’t really mind getting pregnant…’ really? is that a real answer?
She was quite unhelpful and undoctorly. I was beyond appalled when this private practice supposedly has such a high name.
I have since then been to another doctor within the same practice who was much more helpful and friendly and actually cared and knew what she was talking about.
«DR» Lansen should have her license taken away.