Tesfazion Isaias MD

This is the worst doctor I have EVER been to.
I was living in Spain and recently got back to the USA when I finally went to see Dr. Tesfazion. I had been sick for two months and was desperate for something to cure me! Unfortunately I was stuck with a doctor who for some reason REFUSES TO LISTEN TO HIS PATIENTS.
First of all, my blood pressure is typically incredibly low, so low that most doctors re-​take my blood pressure just to make sure it was accurate. Well, my blood pressure according to the machine was quite high for me, so upon bringing it up, he looked at the numbers on the chart and said «no, that’s normal» and I repeated, actually Dr. that is incredibly high for me, that I realized it might be a LITTLE higher from being sick –especially for so long, but not THAT much higher. I told him I have an extensive family history of high blood pressure, so I would really like to know if I should be attentive to it. Finally, after much pleading, he re-​took my blood pressure and said, «it’s the same, it’s normal»… I told him again that it was NOT normal for ME… and he just shrugged.
Secondly, I had a rapid strep test done in the lab prior to coming in. I told Dr. Tesfazion that I am a carrier of strep, and therefore, used to get strep almost once a month for a period of about 10 years… and that not ONCE did a rapid strep test EVER come back positive for me because my body has a different strand of strep than what the test tests for. He then says «Well, let’s see what the test says… Oh, it’s negative, so you don’t have strep.» Yaaaaaaaa… I just told you it would be negative. I repeated what I just told him… and he ignored me.
Thirdly, I had episodes of bright red blood in my bowel movements… they were a little more frequent than once a week, and I had no idea why. I told him I wasn’t straining and I didn’t have any pain associated with the bowel movements, bright red blood would just flow after my bowel movement for about three minutes. This really concerned me seeing as I was a young and usually healthy woman. I said I realized that it could be because my body has just been so sick lately, but I would like to do something along the line of a stool sample just to be sure. His response was «Well, you don’t have it now right? So, let’s not worry about it.» WHAAAT?! I told him again that I’m really concerned, that I had just traveled to Morocco and am never careful about the food/​water I ingest, so asked if we could please at least do a stool sample. His response was pretty much either we overlook this concerning detail, or we forego the traditional stool sample method and go straight to having a scope.
My main cause of seeing Dr. Tesfazion was because I had such thick amounts of green mucus that I was honestly blowing and hacking up cupfuls of it every ten minutes. CUPFULS… I’m really not exaggerating. It got so bad that when I slept I oozed mucus out of my eyes to the point where I couldn’t open them and I had to wake up various times at night to wash my face so I could even sleep. (and no, it wasn’t pink eye or even related to my eyes, I saw a separate doctor for that.) I also at times was getting a 100+ degree fever and anyone I came in contact with, got exactly what I had (I tried really hard not to be out in too much public.) Dr. Tesfazion simply said that I have allergies and that it was the winter and everyone has allergies now. Actually… winter is NOT the most common time for allergies. He also said that Madrid, Spain and Fairfax, VA have very similar conditions so that’s why I still had the allergies even though I moved across the ocean. I explained that Madrid actually has a lot more pollution in the air and none of the trees/​flora are the same. My living conditions were completely different, along with presence of pets, etc. I said I have pretty much changed everything in my life between Madrid and Fairfax. He told me I was wrong and that it was allergies. So, I went home with some knock-​off of Claritin and some nasal spray.
I was told to call him if it didn’t get better in 7 – 10 days. Well 7 – 10 days later I did not feel better, I felt worse. I again had a fever of 103-​degrees and now my family was sick too. I did NOT call him because I never wanted to speak with him again. Instead I went to a doctor outside of Kaiser who listened to me, and prescribed me a Z-​pack. Three days later, I felt like a million bucks.
Thanks for nothing Dr. Tesfazion. But if you’re looking for a doctor who is not going to listen to you and therefore, not going to help you — then I’d say this is your guy.