Serena M Friedman MD

Dr. Friedman is an excellent doctor and very caring. She listens to you and gives good advice. She has always taken the time with me and given me good care. I can’t recommend her enough!!!

Update: 3÷23÷10
While going through old papers, I found lab results Dr. Friedman had done for us. We had specifically asked her if my husband’s blood sugar was high. We knew he might become diabetic because everyone in his immediate family is. Not only did tell us flat out that no, his sugar wasn’t high she hadn’t even ordered the A1C test at all! If we had known all those years ago, we could have avoided so many health problems.
As for the high cholesterol, my husband and I have lowered it through diet and supplements and exercise. No need for statins.
f you’re new to the area, and going down the list of doctors in your HMO booklet, keep looking.
This is the only reason we went to Dr. Friedman; she was close and took our insurance. Big mistake.
We did not like Dr. Friedman at all. She did not listen to our problems, nor give us decent answers to our questions.
We found her to be a «pill pusher». A doctor that will shove a script at you for EVERY thing.
I knew why I was overweight, but it didn’t seem to occur to her that my medication was a big reason. She actually told me to buy one of those popular but ineffectual diet pills-​at Walmart! Every other doctor I’ve had was strongly against over the counter diet pills for good reason. With her it was like, «you’re fat, try anything».
Nor did my husband like her. We both had slightly elevated cholesterol levels, and her first answer was to almost harass us into taking Lipitor. We said NO. We are strongly against any kind of statins because they can cause muscle weakness, muscle deterioration, and possibly death. When we told her this, she basically acted like we were crazy for being so «silly».
When I got bit by a Yellow Sac spider neither she or her nurse practioner knew what it was or how to treat it. But of course sent me home with an antibacterial script. Which did nothing. Basically a take-​two-​aspirin-​and-​call-​me-​in-​the-​morning attitude.
Thankfully my husband figured out what was wrong and took care of me himself. I have a small scar on the side of my face which reminds me the poison could have eaten my face and ultimately killed me.
If she’s your doctor and you like her, fine. But if you’re looking for a GP, my advice is to find someone else. I hate being treated like a child. Dying isn’t my thing either.