Dr. Lucia Regina Tuffanelli, MD

My experience with Dr. Lucia Tuffanelli was horrible from beginning to end. My face-to-face time with her only last about 10 minutes, but those 10 minutes were miserable. To start, I had to wait for over an hour without any updates on how long the wait would be. When she did finally enter the room, I was applauded by her bluntly racist behavior towards me. When she saw I was Latinx and saw my name, she rolled the R in my name excessively/comedically and said, "Okay,¿Que pasa?", rather than asking me, her new patient, how she could help me or what the reason for my visit was. I was treated like a caricature at a fiesta. This was incredibly insensitive and in poor taste.  When I explained my symptoms, she rolled her eyes and asked if I had been under stress lately. I confirmed I had been, to which she replied, "Well there you go" while shrugging her shoulders and pursing her lips. When I asked for recommendations on sunscreen, she recommended makeup with sunscreen because I should… "always wear makeup" so I can "look pretty again." She prescribed me medication without even really looking at my face or asking me about my history with acne/rosacea and didn't give me much information about what to expect from the medication.  As a dermatologist and a health care professional, I could not believe how rude, disrespectful, and racist she was. I wouldn't recommend her to anyone.

My experience with Dr. Lucia Tuffanelli was horrible from beginning to end. My face-to-face time with her only last about 10 minutes, but those 10 minutes were miserable. To start, I had to wait for over an hour without any updates on how long the wait would be. When she did finally enter the room, I was applauded by her bluntly racist behavior towards me. When she saw I was Latinx and saw my name, she rolled the R in my name excessively/comedically and said, "Okay,¿Que pasa?", rather than asking me, her new patient, how she could help me or what the reason for my visit was. I was treated like a caricature at a fiesta. This was incredibly insensitive and in poor taste.   When I explained my symptoms, she rolled her eyes and asked if I had been under stress lately. I confirmed I had been, to which she replied, "Well there you go" while shrugging her shoulders and pursing her lips. When I asked for recommendations on sunscreen, she recommended makeup with sunscreen because I should… "always wear makeup" so I can "look pretty again." She prescribed me medication without even really looking at my face or asking me about my history with acne/rosacea and didn't give me much information about what to expect from the medication.  As a dermatologist and a health care professional, I could not believe how rude, disrespectful, and racist she was. I wouldn't recommend her to anyone.

Dr. Tuffanelli is very thorough and professional. She spends time with you when you need her to look at something on your skin and other times she is really quick, in and out, when getting stiches removed. She's honest and tells you what will work, what won't work for your skin, why and gives the statics. I have vains showing on my face and she said, "there is a 50/50 chance that laser treatments will work to remove the vains that have come to the surface and it will cost you a few thousand dollars for the treatment." The decision is now all mine.