Dr. Elias Arthur Karkalas

Dr. Karkalas is a wonderful doctor. He is thorough and smart at diagnosing illnesses. This is a doctor that's definitely a natural at his job. He was always explaining why and what you had in detail. His life was medicine and it wasn't hard to see that he had a passion for his job. It's hard to find a doctor like that today that loves what they do. He doesn't do it for the money, he does it because he wants to help people. I would highly recommend him to anyone looking for a good doctor. I hope he never retires, even though I know he'll have to someday. I'm truly just being selfish.

I've been out of PA for several years, not surprised to read the reviews on Dr. Karkalas. He had a wonderful practice 20 yrs ago , Wow I guess the Dr's he worked with were on to Something!

I miss the personal attention I got in this office by the staff, especially by Diane . I hope Dr Karkalas realizes how many people were hurt by his actions.

I think dr karkalas is a great doctor...he 's extremely intelligent and has helped me with any issue I've had..I would recommend him to anyone..

I found the doctor good but their office staff is very rude. They don't want to help the patient. Apart from that, they show very rude body language instead of helping you. They never call u to tell you the result of reports. You have to keep calling them. Overall, not recommended.

Won't win any personality contests. I believe he thinks he is witty. As long as I get good medical care, I'm good with it.

Dr. K is an excellent, intelligent doctor. He does write a lot of prescriptions. Some of people who work there are rude, but not all of them and not all of the time. He is very serious, but I am not going there to shoot the breeze. Once in a while, I've had to wait a long time to see him, but it's like that with almost very doctor.

I REALLY WISH I COULD MAKE FLYERS TO STRESS MY POINT. KARKALAS IS NOT A GOOD DOCTOR AT ALL. I AM BEGGING ANYONE WHO READS THIS AND TO PLEASE PASS THE WORD AROUND TO NOT COME HERE. EVEN IF YOU KNOW ANYONE WHO IS ALREADY SEEING THIS DOCTOR TELL THEM TO GO ELSE WHERE....PLEASE. IF YOU WANT TO SAVE YOUR LIFE, FAMILY AND FRIENDS.... COMPLETE STRANGERS YOU SEE....PLEASE INFORM THEM. MY FAMILY AND I HAVE REPORTED HIM AND STILL NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE. THIS DOCTOR IS A DANGER TO ANYONE HE PROVIDES MEDICAL CARE TO.

We've been seeing Dr. Karkalas since 2001. We were extremely satisfied with his services until about 2 years ago (2009). His front desk staff was very rude to clients both waiting in the waiting room and the ones calling on the phone. My husband and I were both uphauled at the way they spoke to the clients on many occassions. We used to brag about Dr. Karkalas's follow up, as he would even be known to call late on a Sunday night to touch base. For the past two years he has been completely unresponsive to questions and provides no response to requests and no longer gives any follow up. When we lost our health insurance due to job loss, we tried to reach him regarding the fact that I could no longer afford the FIVE anti-depressant medications that he had prescribed me. We made it clear that we needed to speak with him immediately, but his lack of response caused me to come off all five medications at once, cold turkey, putting me through severe withdrawal for two months. We have… finally gotten fed up with the way things have been for the last two years and have decided to find another Family Practitioner. However, he has refused to respond to our request for medical records for over SIX MONTHS, making it impossible for another doctor to see us. He now also has our records locked in a place where his staff can't even get to them and copy them for us. We have now sought legal counsel and will be serving him with a court order to release our records. It should not have gone this far.

The wait to see the Dr. is way too long.However, he seems to know medicine. Healways gives me an answer to all of my questions and always gives me an accurate diognosis. So, i quess the wait is worth it. His office manager/nurse has always been good to me and my children. I have alot of trust/faith in her as well. The rest of the staff is good/friendly. My scripts/referrals are always put thru in a timely manner,