I moved to Palm Springs a year ago and
in that time I’ve been looking for a
Primary care doctor.
Sad to say I still haven’t found one.
I thought I found a good provider with Kerrigan and Will medical
But unfortunately this is not a place of compassion or healing.
Starting with the nasty font desk staff Bryan. Bryan should not be working in the medical field (or any other field that requires compassion and sympathy) he’s like a little sassy chihuahua.
Relentless, combative and aggressively rude. He looks too young to be so miserable.
Maybe he was just having a really, really, really bad day ?
My original appointment was for 1130 am. I got a reminder phone call the day before
and the man said you have an appointment for tomorrow at 1130 am.
I show up at 1124 and Bryan said my appointment was for 1115 and he doesn’t think that I can be seen today.
I said I wrote down 1130 and I even got a phone call yesterday confirming the time and date for 1130 am .
He said so your telling me that both the scheduling department and the reminder guy got the time wrong and I said 1130 am is what I was told and I asked if they record their phone calls and he said no.
So I said jokingly well that’s one for the suggestion box and that’s when he really started in on embarrassing me by talking loud and making sarcastic, rude remarks. I told him I don’t know why he is talking to me this way. Aren’t I the Patient?
Doesn’t he work here, and that he was making me feel very uncomfortable. So Bryan said he would stop but as I was seated in the waiting area he kept talking about the situation to his coworker so I finally got up and said I still don’t know why your taking about this and I can hear you. I asked to talk to his supervisor and Bryan got up, left for a bit and came back and said she’s busy but I promise I will give her the message and smiled. I haven’t got a phone call from her so I called her and she has no direct line so I left a message with the same front staff that was nasty. Let us see if she calls me back .
The nurse practitioner (Joelle Martinez PAC) wasn’t any better the first time I saw her.
She was rude but tried very hard to be professional. The feeling I got from her was that I was bothering her with my issues and this last time I saw her I was trying to explain what happened with the front desk and how upset and disrespected I was treated. She said that was not her department and literally walked out the door!! No I’m sorry that happened or that’s not typical of the front desk staff . I was shocked.
I’m sure I’m not their first victim. The two times I’ve been there I’ve seen several older patients and I hope for their sake they are being treated with dignity and respect. I sure wasn’t.
Let’s see if Brielle the supervisor calls me back….