Dr. Patrick Santiago, MD

Dr. Santiago shouldn't be practicing medicine. My husband saw him for 6 months after he had a heart attack,. H failed to recognize that my husband was in active heart failure, and as a result, my husband almost died. The last time my husband saw him, his blood pressure was extremely high and his oxygen levels were low enough that he should have gone to an ER. We didn't know this until we got into his medical records - he never said anything. My husband ended up having emergency open heart surgery to replace a valve and do a double by-pass because two of his arteries were 100% blocked and the other two were 50% blocked. The doctors at the other hospital I took him to said he was lucky to be alive! My advice is to find a different cardiologist who will do their job!

I was referred to Dr. Santiago for my resistant high blood pressure. On my first visit my BP was 214/124 and he was told about my history and my intolerance to many medications. He was going to prescribe to me a medication that I had already tried twice that made me sick. He gave me a different medication and when I got home and took one pill I knew something was wrong. I never felt so bad in my life, it basically was an overdose that I was experiencing with the worst headache of my life, sensitive to light and very bad nausea and I called his office and was told to only take half a pill and the Dr would call me the next day. He never returned my call to check on me and I refused to take the medication. He ordered tests on my heart that were extremely important and then didn't schedule me for an appointment to tell me the results for almost 2 months. I was totally appalled that he never returned my call after something so serious happened. In hindsight I should have went to the… hospital but I was relying on my Dr. After it was obvious to me that he didn't care about my health I called to cancel my next appointment as I did not want to see him again and the receptionist didn't even ask why. When I asked her if they would like to know why they were losing a patient she didn't...but I told her anyway and all she said was...Well, have a nice day and hung up! BAD BAD DR!!