Dr. Ferial Mahdi Abood, MD

I have been debating about writing this review and the more I try to talk myself out of it the more I believe it's necessary. I have always heard great things about you and your staff. You see my Mother in-law has been a patient for sometime. She also knows you on a personal level. My mother in law has dementia along with a list of other issues. She just lost her partner after 41 years. She has been up rooted from her home, friends , doctors, ect. because she can not take care of herself. My husband and myself have tried to make appointments with you or a nurse, either for an appointment or via tela health to go over all these medications she is on. As it can take months to get her an appointment in Washington State. You and your office doesn't seem to have the time to see us or talk to us. This is unacceptable. You have refused to see us just to go over medication. Only to offer a sheet of paper of her medicine. I don't understand how you can have a patient with dementia who takes… numerous pills on top of numerous vitamins and can't find the time to go over said medication with the family. She also has NarCan in this bunch, why.? We can see to get any answers to anything. This is disgraceful of you and your staff. Time is no excuse, she is your patient and we should not have to wonder or do extensive research on prescriptions. That is what you and your staff are for.

This doctor doesn't care about what her medications do to her patients and does not research medical conditions or medication effects very well, if at all. She has caused so many medical issues due to her lack of incompetence.

Great Family Doc helped me find best cholesterol med highly recommend. BTW, very friendly and pretty secretary too

Great doctor. she's very knowledgable and spends time on every patient. since she cares about all patients and wants to see everyone she can, she is always running behind and the visit is always long. in my opinion, worth the wait

She is a good Internist, I did see her and she was a good Dr.If I had more time in town I would be more than happy to wait to see her, she appears to be good with complex decisions among other medical practices.She also has a Sub Specialty of Cardiology.

she is one of the best physicians.

When you wait for a very long time and the office staff you see is full of anxiety and not very friendly sometimes.She is an Internist and should know how to treat various conditions well etc.

I guess this Physician does try, I had seen her one time and was surprised with the long wait.Another Physician had thought she would be a good physician to make a patient Dr relationship with, however she is rather more like convintional Dr's that are not as open minded.It also took hours in the office to wait, however it was very busy.she may be a good Dr for some and not others just as any other Physician she is a typicial General Internist who is not as open minded as some more modernized Dr's.The Dr does try..

I referred a patient to this Physician hoping that she may know how to treat the patient with her extra training on HRT.The Physician ignored what the patient had been sent for even though a letter had been provided to treat only specific conditions.I wanted to see if this Physician would assist the patient with his problems and issues, however the Dr went way off topic and ordered tests that a conventional Physician would order who knows little or nothing about HRT in males.This is a very young male and suffered Chronic Orchitis when resulted in conditions that need to be treated.I understand my former patient waited for an a good 4 hours in her office.I advised my former patient that he needed to find another Physician as this one did not sound to meet his needs.When he requested his medical record that was also denied which is unacceptable to the Hippa guidelines, this is an MD who is an internist, so no reason should the Physician or the office have denied such records.This… Physician is very unorganized and has been sanctioned by the state of NM for not keeping record of her hours, she knew she was in the wrong, she had no reason to retain an attorney either.This Physician came From Jordan then she went on to Oakland for her residency in Internal Medicne and also did a fellowship for cardiology.She has had extensive training and is a member of the A4M as well as another Physician who practices with her.It is quite a waste when you try to work with a Dr who does not want to treat the patients conditions for which he had gone for.Also when I called the office staff even the insurance they claim not to provide medical records to the patient.As far as I am concerned as an MD this patients Medical Records from this Physician go in the paper shredder, he should not have waited as long as he did in the first place.This Physician should have treated this patient and assisted him wit HRT knowing he has been on it for years, also his Family Dr thought at one time it would be helpful to see this Physician for his Musculoskeletal issues, however she did not even read the records to know what he was being seen for.I advised the patient to file a complaint with the insurance company in the event she try's to collect money for this visit.I did not turn this Physician into the medical board for providing the patient with such poor level of service as well as ignoring the letter from me to provide the patient with HRT as he needed a Physician closer to home.She is a great Dr however it sounds like if she is treating elder adults, colds, cuts, burns scrapes, cardiovascular problems.However as far as treating male patients who have had hormone issues in starting in the teens to early 20's makes it very difficult.It is as if the Physician had read she would have known why he was seeing this Dr.Dr Abood I fear for her medical soul if she does not improve her practice.I would never send a former patient to this Physician ever again.He had rather Fly out of state to see his regular Physician than go see her.After seeing the lab requisition she had provided to him that was way off scope to his former treatment.I should have just had the patient find a regular Family Physician in the area.To my shame I sent a much needy patient to a Dr that had no clue what the patient needed and did not like that he had pimples on his face which was a result of the type of work he does.He just had a very good lab requisition from his current Physician the prior month as I will repeat he had even told her that he had just had lab work done.I let the patient know he did not need to do the lab requisition at this time as he had just done it, perhaps in about 6 months to a year it may be helpful, however I do not see any reason for ordering tests that had just been ordered and she had no medical necessary reason to do this if she had read the patients chart and the additional records that he had brought with him.Anyway she be be a great Physician I will say again for other conditions however would not meet my former patients needs.I will get off my soapbox and wash my hands of this.Just because of her extensive traing and education she still had the traditional American brainwashed Physician mind who looks to not go off of how the patient feels, but just numbers for the long and the short of it.Good luck Dr abood

we were hoping to expect a better Dr considering all of her training, however she is not as good as expected, it was a excess wait trying to get into see this Physician.This Dr practices more like an old School traditional Physician.She has taken some training that should allow her to be more knowledgable than the average Dr.It is also very complex to try and get an Appt with this Dr, it took around 3+ months for them to even call back to schedule an appt.