Dr. Daniel Oscar Storch, MD

Bel Dr. Storch competent but had life threatening symptoms. Went to 2 ER rooms & he & his lead cardiologist nurse vanished for around 10 days. ERs could not get my records & when stable was discarded w/o treatment. His own medical team at Az Cardiology could not locate him or her. Had an emergency no to call left 5 urgent messages - never answered. In 3rd message requested that I be assigned to another cardiologist in his group(there are 10) Never happened. Saw my internist, another cardiologist, & neurologist when he disappeared - all agreed what happened to me life threatening & serious but needed my cardiac records. When he returned from ? I saw him & he refused to take my life threatening experience seriously - telling me a 'million things could have caused it' I immediately requested to see another cardiologist at Az Cardiology who was taking new patients, willing to see me but Dr. Storch blocked this. Dr. Storch good but abandoning heart patients NOT Am… seeing cardiologists at Mayo Clinic & Stanford to figure out what happened as am now living in terror of a repeat. I collapsed 3 times(first time in my life) & could not move a muscles for >20 minutes - no warning. Rescued by neighbors BP at ER almost double normal levels for 6 hrs. Have never had hi BP This happened in Jan. waited 2 months to post as was not sure my emergency calls got through Saw him 3 days ago & info I gave in calls repeated to me - so HAVE to warn others Dr. Storch never mentioned what happened & I valued him enuf to ignore. But denying it was cardiac - when 3 other MDs & ER believed otherwise is dangerous IMO he could do this to others. Have always paid bills, shown up & been a compliant patient He is hard to replace but forcing me to live in fear of a repeat until Mayo or Stafford figures this out - not acceptable I strongly suggest find another cardiologist before he pulls this on you

Recently I have had many doctor appointments and typically walk away thinking that they should switch out the grumpy staff. This was a very pleasant experience beginning with the front desk woman. The nurses worked as a team for vitals and entering my info in the computer. Dr. Storch was extremely personalble and very clear about the path we should take. Wonderful doctor and entire office.

Dr. Storch has an excellent bedside manner and when visiting me in the hospital he doesn't have one foot out the door. Rather, he takes his time to discuss my situation and solutions. He teamed very well with my pulmonologist and pcp to connect the dots related to my treatment. He is thorough and takes time to explain issues and outcomes not only with me but with my family.

I have a condition that is affecting my heart so I was to have an Echocardiogram at Dr. Storch's office and then meet with him to go over the results right after, all in the same appointment. He stared at my blankly and did not answer any of my questions. He made me feel stupid, like "why are you even here". I felt uncomfortable and like he was blowing me off because I am young. He told me my heart was okay and my Echocardiogram came back normal. I got the report at the end of my appointment and it says right on the Echocardiogram report that I have bowing of both of my mitral valves and I have tricuspid valve regurgitation. I then took this report to my surgeon who verified with me the results of the test and said it was not normal. I would never go back to him or recommend him to anyone.

Excellent office as well.