Gaston Larry H MD

Don’t ever go see this doctor. All he does it waste ur time. My mom went to see him for almost a year for a small wound on her finger with some kind of seafood bacterial infection and finally he say he can’t cure it after whole damn year and after going thru five antibiotic injection, five different cream antibiotic and 3 different oral antibiotic which she got allergy reaction from one of them. Plus 3 times laser surgery where he burn the whole top skin off. Every time we go there we had to wait at least an hour after our appointment time cuz he was never on time. Make a whole god damn room of patients waited for him. Now we went to see the hand surgeon and try to had them send over the paper works, they freakin lose my biopsy result, now my mom have to has another piece of skin dig out of her finger to get exactly what kind of bacterial causing the wound. Don’t ever never never go see this nuts. He don’t consider as doctor.

We were in the office waiting (it was a long wait) when I read the other reviews. I was so scared, I considered leaving, but then my husband encouraged we stay since we were already there. Then I saw the other good reviews that Unilocal did not recommend/​put up on the front page… I don’t know why Unilocal did that. Anywayz, we finally saw Dr. Larry. He was patient. He seemed knowledgeable. He did his job and I was happy.

I saw Dr Gaston once and will never go back. He removed something for me and didn’t do a full exam, even though I told him I had not been to a dermatologist for several years. It turns out I had melanoma, which was only caught because I went to another dermatologist. Oh — and when I needed my paperwork for the other doctor, they told me they had lost it. Very unprofessional.

I went to see Dr. Gaston at the Silver Spring office and I felt good walking in as there was only 2 other people waiting to see him. This led me to believe that I wouldn’t have a long wait and the doc would take his time with me. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! (deep evil laugh). I was wrong. What the office does is schedules everyone at the same time, so after sitting for about 20 min. about 8 other patients came trickling in for the same 1:30 appointment time. The doc spent approximately 5 – 7 min. with me, he tried to leave after 5 min. but I was able to squeeze the other 2 min. because I was trying to get my questions answered about my problem skin.
He didn’t really look at my skin either or me for that matter. When I asked a specific question about my skin issue I was met with a response of «I don’t know». WTF you mean you don’t know??? If you say «I’m not sure, it could be blah, blah, blah» or «I don’t know, lets take some tests». But to tell me «I don’t know» and not have anything else to say but look down and continue writing Rx, is not acceptable.
I will update this once I begin to use the rx he wrote for me and see how it works.

I thought I was in a Tijuana doctor’s office. It was so hot in the waiting room I was sure I would pass out before my appointment. The exam room was filthy and had super old supplies strewn all about the room. The doctor spent about 30 seconds with me but took care of what I needed (which is why I gave him a second star).

I’ll keep this short. I went to Larry several years ago to remove a small mole that always bothered me. He said he would simply cut it out in a small operation. What Mr. Gastion failed to tell me was that the local anaesthetics that he injected around the mole would leave scars. Now the mole is gone, but I have a new, bigger & more annoying scar in its place thanks to Dr. Gaston.
UGH. Incompetence.

Very disappointed in Dr. Gaston — big waste of money. I went in because I was unusually for me getting a lot of zits. I told him the acne consisted of hard plugs that I had to pry out with a pin. Dr. Gaston looked quickly and said, based on my age, that it was peri-​menopause. He said he diagnoses peri-​menopause as a cause of this type of acne all the time. He prescribed a harsh face cleanser and a harsh antibiotic benzoyl peroxide topical lotion. I tried them twice; my face felt HORRIBLE, like burning paper. I had told Dr. Gaston I already had dry skin — this made it 100 times worse. I (unlike Dr. Gaston) knew that all this drying and harshness would only irritate and exacerbate the acne. So I went online with the idea that maybe the face lotion I’d been using was to blame — voila, turns out coconut oil is very clogging. I changed to avocado oil and my zits are gone. Dr. Gaston never even MENTIONED the possibility that my cleanser, lotion, or blush could be causing the problem — why the hell not? Are doctors really THAT uninformed and lacking in common sense and intelligence? How many women have gotten these horrible prescriptions and ruined their skin? Not to mention how bad it is to have antibiotics going into your system every day and increasing your immunity to them when they’re needed for something serious.
I’m disgusted with Dr. Gaston, as I am with many doctors, whose idea of «treatment» consist of looking for 3 seconds and throwing drugs at you. I wish I could find a doctor that actually tries to determine the CAUSE of problems. I’ve been misdiagnosed probably 75% of the times I’ve gone to doctors — I don’t even know why I bother anymore. The Internet is much more helpful! The state of medicine is very sad at this point, and Dr. Gaston is a definite representative of the low-​quality care doctors are giving these days. I wasted a $ 20 copayment and $ 50 on prescriptions. Skip this guy and use the Internet.