Dr. Arturo Esteban Morales, MD

Such a smart Doctor. I've been to horrible psychiatrists. I've been told I'm lying, on too much medicine, etc. Dr. Morales not only believed me, but told me exactly why one thing affected the other, he had compassion, knew how hard it was for me.. It's the first time in 7 years all of my medical conditions were validated and treated with compassion. The front desk receptionists are so sweet.. Almost all my other doctors have horrible front desk staff, but not here. I'd recommend this doctor without hesitation.

I went to this hack because I just moved into the area and needed a new doctor for medication management for my ADD, of which I had been diagnosed and treated for for longer than a decade. The doctor was at first inappropriately focusing on depression, and made a comment that I presented as depressed, so I guess if a woman comes to his office and isn't jumping up and down and spitting nickels than she is depressed. After I gave him my history he asked me the name of the original doctor who diagnosed me, and apparently he found it suspicious that I couldn't remember the name of a doctor I had seen approximately a decade prior. I offered that he could contact my most recent doctor who practices in New York City, and he also found it suspect that I told him to google her because I didn't have her address and phone number on me, because at this point he starts implying that I am looking for prescriptions to hand out to others or otherwise have some illicit reason for being there. Then he… asks me how I take my medication. I am confused because as far as I know they haven't come up with an adderall suppository, and the only way I can possibly conceive of taking a PILL is by mouth, but it seems inconceivable that an educated professional would ask such an intentionally obtuse question, so I ask him to clarify. At this time he became very verbally aggressive that his question was simple and he couldn't understand why I wasn't answering it. Well, because your grammar school teachers were wrong, there are stupid questions, and if someone who is supposed to be educated and professional asks a really dumb question my first response is to think that I am missing something, but alas no, I was not missing anything, it was just a really stupid obvious question. By this time I had determined that there was no way I was going to be able to have any sort of a decent therapeutic relationship with person.