Dr. Pablo H Vivas, MD

My husband has been a patient at this cardiologist's office for over 6 years now, and while I appreciate the expertise of the medical staff, I must express my disappointment with their consistent tardiness. On multiple occasions, he had to wait over an hour past the scheduled appointment time, which has caused inconvenience and frustration. Today, they made him wait an hour. My husband has ALS and is on a ventilator. The office didn’t apologize or even acknowledge their tardiness. I understand that emergencies can occur in a medical setting, but it seems that this office may be overbooking patients or not managing their schedule effectively. The waiting room is often filled with anxious patients, and the delay in appointments only adds to the stress. I believe the practice needs to address this issue and implement better scheduling practices to respect patients' time and improve overall satisfaction. Until then, you may want to consider finding a new cardiologist.

Very unsafe environment. Waited 55 minutes with 20 other people before leaving without seeing doctor. Office has no ventilation and impossible to stay away from other people

My grandmother landed in the Emergency Room, while she was out of town, visiting me. The following morning, I tried to refill her medications at my local Walgreens because she forgot her medicine at home back in Miami. She was out of refills so Walgreens attempted to contact Dr. Vivasâ?? office. Several hours later, I went to Walgreens and to my surprise, Dr. Vivasâ?? office had not yet completed the refill request, so I called them. I was immediately met with rudeness, unwillingness to help and a lot of unnecessary attitude. The woman said she would take care of the request and seemed too busy to let me finish speaking. I also needed them to contact my local hospital to transfer her records to Dr. Vivasâ?? office, since he is her primary physician and she needed to see someone about her medical problems when she got back home. The woman I spoke to cut me off and said â??Dr. Vivas is not going to call the hospital.â?? She then transferred me to medical records so they could deal… with my completely unreasonable request. They were just as rude and cut me off mid sentence, inaccurately assuming what I needed. They talked down to me and told me they werenâ??t going to help me because she needed to sign a form. Throughout this whole ordeal, I was â??disconnectedâ?? and had to call back three separate times. On the third attempt, I realized that they closed the office two hours early. To make a long story short, they never submitted anything to Walgreens and now, we have to wait until Monday to deal with them again. Total lack of compassion for their patients. Save yourself the hassle and find another doctor. This one is not worth it!

I tried three times to see Dr. Vivas to no avail. The Dr. was unable to keep scheduled appointments including my third and final "first appointment of the day" attempt. It's probably a clue when the waiting room resembles the DMV. The staff was rude, inept and primarily interested in snatching up the patient co-pay. There were files all over the floor. The third time is the charm. Dr. Vivas may or may not be a good physician but he'll not be mine.