Dr. John David Becker, MD

My mother was a patient of Dr. Becker’s. I have been to Dr. Becker too. He ignored my problems as he ignored hers while she was dying. She died of advanced cardiovascular disease and all the way up to her death he did not bother to even do anything to diagnose it. He let her think that she had back problems and that was causing all her pain and distress. She went into him in desperation I remember about four months before she died when we convinced her that there must be something she could do. He just touched her side said “does that hurt?”then said well there was nothing else he could do.. He only takes the time to work on those he wants to work on. He ignores the others. And I see the comments about his assistant and now he is good but his assistant is terrible. Why does he have an assistant like that if he is good and cares about his patients? When my father was in terrible pain from cancer that was developing in his back Dr. Becker prescribed something right before Labor… Day weekend. His assistant did not call it in. And she is like that with a lot of stuff. Also my father needed an MRI from the beginning. He sent him to the physical therapist. Anyone can see there was a problem developing. Anyway when he got the results of the MRI that he finally ordered he waited almost a week to even tell him that it could be cancer. And he said well I’m concerned that it might be cancer. And I looked at the MRI and there were multiple neoplasms. It wasn’t it might be cancer there was a good probability it was any need it looked at right away. But he acted like well there was a little bit of a reason to be concerned, probably because he didn’t want my dad to ask why he had looked at this sooner. When I talked to my dad during that time he said that Becker did an x-ray and that was good enough. And I said an x-ray of what? And he said his stomach! Not his back. And he waited until almost a week to even get his secretary started on making an appointment at the cancer center. There was something that they tried to do for his back where they injected cement to try to help the pain from the fractures. And he ended up becoming semiconscious the day before his appointment to do that in ended up in the hospital never recovered. And if he had had his appointments earlier he could’ve gotten relief from the pain before the whole thing got so bad and died a much better death. I have also been to Dr. Becker. He looks only at what he wants to look at shrugs off the rest. Even among professionals in the area he is known as” Do-Nothing Becker.”. My mother trusted him and died with no treatment the whole year while she got worse and worse. She was very badly affected and trusted him. It is not alright.

I have found Dr. Becker a compassionate, excellent physician - BUT his "assistant" is obstreperous, snooty, uncooperative woman. He should get rid of her. NOW. I would rate Dr. Becker highly. Only because of his assistant have I given a lower rating.

Received a $200 hundred bill FIVE years after my doctors visit. The letter said my account would be sent to a collection agency if not paid within so many days. To make a long story short my insurance company had to verify with his receptionist that payment was received by his office within a timely manner. To his credit, Dr. Becker did write a letter of apology. The main reason my wife and I stopped going to his office after about 10 visits, was because of her attitude. We feel he is a good physician but really needs a person in the front office who knows how to speak to people

great doctor!

Over the years my family has used lots of different family practice doctors, but we think John Becker is by far the best. He is an old-fashioned, small-town physician in the best sense of those words. He is accessible, considerate and meticulous. My family trusts John.

I use to be a patient, but his receptionist/nurse is a diseaster. She actually turned me down and told me to go to the ER, when i called in the am for an afternoon appointment. Get rid of her - very poor customer service and is as rude as could be Dr. Becker is a good clinician, its too bad he has a lousy receptionist!

The best!