Dr. Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD

So sweet and kind and genuinely cares about her patients! I feel blessed to be her patient

She is a terrible doctor with a shallow, condescending bedside manner, and a narrow mind. I asked her to withdraw me from prescribed psychotropics with only TWO objectives. a.) to regain my appetite, which one pill was suppressing b.) to regain normal sexual function She withdrew me at trainwreck speed, and even had me quitting one medication cold turkey. As a result, I was a total mess, and to tell the truth, I am surprised I am even still alive. One of the withdrawal effects was lack of appetite. (There goes objective "a".) I was scared to death I would never get it back, and I kept scheduling multiple appointments with her over the course of a year, (and losing an alarming amount of weight all the while) trying to get her to fix the problem that SHE created! She never even tried to listen to me, instead inventing all manner of excuses for not helping me. Another incident to illustrate her horrific incompetence: many withdrawal effects were psychiatric in nature, and… I became mentally unstable. Knowing this, she tried to force me to do something that I was psychologically unprepared for, threatening that if I didn't do it, she would terminate my treatment with her. I bit the bullet and did it, but was so shaken by the experience that I attempted suicide. She blamed me for the whole thing, threatening to have me hospitalized, all the while not even considering her part in it. Physicians like her, in my opinion, are better off not dealing directly with patients, as she clearly doesn't know how to treat people decently.