Dr. Brian Saul Levitt, MD

Dr. Levitt did a great job with my first health exam. He explained everything to me in a clear way. He was also kind and friendly. All of the staff were great and helpful.

I believe Dr. Brian S. Levitt is extremely unethical, and would recommend that potential patients look elsewhere. I had a colonoscopy done by Dr. Levitt several years ago. During the consultation appointment, he used some of my personal medical information to make a determination that I might be an ideal customer for a service his wife's company sells. I was really not interested, and gave a vaguely positive yet noncommittal (i.e. polite) response. This should have been a big red flag to me, but I figured that was the end of it and decided to go ahead and schedule the procedure. A few months later on the morning of the colonoscopy, I was prepped and wheeled into the procedure room. The anesthesiologist may have already started the sedative flowing into my IV. Then Dr. Levitt came into the room and IMMEDIATELY asked me whether I had pursued purchasing his wife's company's services. I told him that I hadn't, and he proceeded to ask me more questions about why I wasn't interested… in his wife's services, and his tone became rather pushy. I was in utter disbelief. Here I was in an EXTREMELY vulnerable situation, and the man who was about to perform a very sensitive invasive medical procedure on me was giving me a hard time about not buying additional unrelated services that would have benefited him financially. I was very tempted to call the procedure off right then. I was angry and confused. But I decided to let the procedure continue simply because the alternative would have been extremely inconvenient. When I "came to" after the procedure, the staff tended to me and I never saw the Dr. again. I was recently due for a subsequent colonoscopy. Once I explained to my General Practitioner why I would not be returning to Dr. Levitt, I became increasingly determined to share my story in the hopes of sparing other patients the awful experience I suffered in his care.

I highly recommend him.

Dr. Levitt is a careless doctor in my opinion, which makes him (and similar doctors) dangerous, because their lack of interest in determining root cause combined with their expert status can cause unnecessary damage to a patient. I had issues with chronic bloating, belching, and stomach ache and Dr. Levitt was highly recommended to me. By then I had taken antacid for over a year and did not have a clear idea about the long-term impact of being on medication, and desperately needed to find the root cause for my illness. Dr. Levitt went through my notes from previous visits with family doctor and GI specialist, and by the second (and final) time we met he quite nonchalantly laid it out that I was indeed suffering from GERD and that there were plenty of people who take antacid for the rest of their lives. He was basically reassuring me that it is safe to stay on antacid indefinitely. And this is where his worst advice was given. He told me that if I wanted to be off antacid, I… could run a stomach acidity test after which (if I wished) I could have an operation to tie my stomach to avoid acid reflux. The option he offered me was basically to either do nothing or to operate my stomach. Eventually I came across another doctor who strongly suggested that I would stop eating gluten. The same doctor suggested that antacid is often prescribed incorrectly even though the digestion issues are sometimes due to low stomach acidity and taking HCL instead of antacid is the solution. None of this information was provided to me by Dr. Levitt, who is a GI specialist and should know this. My issues went away almost immediately once I stopped eating gluten. Imagine how uninformed and careless of a GI specialist Dr. Levitt must be that he would actually suggest operating and tying a healthy stomach when the root cause was simply gluten insensitivity.

This doctor did not help me. He refused to. He didn't offer to do any tests. I had to wait a half hour to see him. He accused me of making him feel uncomfortable. I was not making him uncomfortable. I was in despair because he would not help me. Just the idea of a doctor threatening to call the police on me is enough for me to tell others DO NOT SEE THIS DOCTOR. This is not a doctor. This is a man who does not want to be bothered.