Dr. Nubia Stella Vargas Chen, MD

Horrible doctor. I would give 0 stars if I could. This is the second time I’ve had a bad experience with her. She really should NOT be working with kids. I’ve met many of the Stony Brook doctors who are amazing and so kind to my daughter. The first time I filed a complaint on this doctor she called me from a PRIVATE PERSONAL number at 11:00 PM, which was very unprofessional. My daughter spends alot of time in the doctors office and hospitals so she is very playful when it comes to doctors. But she repeatedly yelled at my daughter because she was touching her stethoscope, which she does all the time with many doctors with no problem. This caused her to become upset when she already had a high respiratory rate (keep in mind that Dr Vargas DID NOT have the earbuds in). As a person she is very rude, doesn’t listen to what you have to say (She sent my daughter to the ED without consulting her Pulmonologist first causing us to have an unecessary ED visit and gave the EMTs the wrong info… because she WOULD NOT listen to what I had to say), and she IS NOT friendly to children, she is definitely working in the wrong field of practice. She also told us we could take our own car to the ED since that is what we usually do and then she came in 10 minutes later with the EMTs (after my husband left bc the Dr had said we can take our own car, if she didn’t say that he would have stayed to drive one of the cars to the ED). There is so much more to this story, but the point is that I will not allow this doctor to place hands on my daughter again. I don’t think anyone should.

Extremely cold, and frankly not professional. She couldn't take a good history because she did not listen to our answers to her questions. She barely looked at our baby. She didn't understand some very basic questions we had carefully written out for her. She provided no education (on a first newborn visit for our first baby) even when we directly asked for it. I was genuinely shocked at how bad this visit was. I will never go back.