Martin Daniel MD

This guy is awful. My mother was a patient there for 10 years plus. I was concerned last year that she had parkinson’s disease. She had been falling a lot, her balance was not good, and she shuffled her feet when she would walk. She also had a change in personality and handwriting. All are classic signs of parkinsons disease. She went in there last spring with a list of symptoms. He watched her walk across the room, and decided she did not have parkinsons. He sent her off to Crozer’s balance center. That’s it, no tests, no referals to specialists. 6 months later, my mother is severly disabled from her frequent falls. I took her to a primary care doctor and neurologist by me (I live in VA). It turns out, she has advanced parkinsons and vascular dementia (from a series of small strokes that he missed). I am so angry with this doctor. He had no concern for my mother’s well being. She trusted him and now she cannot do anything on her own. She had a severe fall in October and had to move in with me. If she could have started the sinemet earlier, maybe it could have helped her movement enough that there would not have been so many falls.

The office is in desperate need of a facelift its pretty decrepit. Dr Martin is usually great and genuine his only downside is that sometimes he thinks he knows everything about everything and can steal you in the wrong direction albeit of course not on purpose, the real low point of this place is the staff. They pry a lot into your personal and medical stuff, they’re extremely unprofessional with hippa violations left and right as they yell questions at each other across the office. They always seem to be eating and talking on their cell phones. If you call and leave a voicemail or even a message with the staff they take forever to get back to you. The wait time is really awful. Especially if you have an appointment later in the day when they’re backed up good luck getting in the exam room with under an hour spent in the waiting room. I continue to go for convenience purposes since I live so close and have a relationship there but I think it’s time for a change.

This review is about the staff at Dr Martin’s office. If you need a prescription or info faxed or anything from the front desk. Good Luck. Five days of asking if my son had a immunization, finally on the sixth day I got the answer. I called 5 days in a row. They don’t care that you need your physical faxed so you can keep your job. They say they will do it and they don’t. Period. Five of my family members go to Dr Martin and like him BUt i am recommending they all find another doctor because this amount of incompetence is scaring me. Office staff and the nurses should care about the patients and the Dr should pay attention to what is going on in his office. I am an RN for years and have supervised and directed large staffs in many different settings. This is shameful for a medical office to be run so poorly.

The office staff leaves a lot to be desired. When they’re not being rude, they’re eating their lunches from the drug reps that are always swarming the office at the front desk. God help you if you need a referral– you’ll probably get to your specialist office only to be informed that it was never done.
Dr. Martin on the other hand, is a really nice guy. I really like him a lot and he’s down to earth. He’ll listen to you and remember who you are. He’s not an alarmist and seems to genuinely enjoy what he does. I keep going to the office because I like him as a doctor– certainly not for the office staff.
My only other complaint, is that it is not handicap accessible. If you are on crutches, use a walker, or require a wheel chair you’ll never get in the front door since it has 2 huge steps. You’ll never be able to use the bathroom either because that’s not handicap accessible either. Unless they’re hiding another restroom.