Dr. Meghan Tara Hession, MD

Dr. Hession is extremely friendly and easy to talk to which I think is important in a doctor. She always takes the time to listen to my concerns and answer my questions, where as other doctors sometimes will rush you out to get to their next appointment. I hope to keep seeing Dr. Hession for all my skin concerns for as long as she’s in the profession and I recommend everyone else to do the same!

I see the five-star ratings and positive reviews on Dr. Meghan Hession and wonder whether we're talking about the same dermatologist I saw a couple of days before Christmas in 2017. I think about her every time as I look at myself in a mirror and see a half-inch long scar on my cheek as a result of the biopsy she took a year ago. I was waiting for the scar to disappear with time; however, according to other dermatologists, it is not going to happen. She tried to explain my skin condition by using Latin terms and when I asked what it really meant, she repeated the same terms by razing her voice in annoyance, so I actually question her communication skills. I speak several foreign languages, but unfortunately, I'm not fluent in Latin... She didn't only misdiagnose my sunspot by claiming that it was an eczema and giving me a medication for it--which obviously didn't work--but also suggested to take "a few cells" from this sunspot for a biopsy. "A few cells" were taken from the middle… of my large quarter-sized sunspot. I wished she would have told me that this scar she left on my face was permanent... I also have been wondering why it was necessary to cut my skin from the center of this sunspot, the most visible place on my face, and not from a less-noticeable location... According to other dermatologists, sunspots are very common and are easy to diagnose correctly: they are benign and performing a biopsy on them is completely unnecessary. Caveat emptor!

It is refreshing to have a super knowledgable dermatologist up on the latest solutions to visit who prescribes things that work, without overdoing treatment. I have a severe autoimmune condition and weakened immune system since receiving 32 simultaneous vaccinations in the U.S. Air Force 50 years ago that has created havoc with inflammation and my skin. I have repeatedly been overprescribed and suffered the antibiotic and massive steroids merry-go-round that created further problems without solutions. In my three visits to Dr. Hession so far, she has hit the right combination of minimal treatment within weeks that went from huge infected welts and infection to smooth skin, instead of as long as six months from the prior stabbing in the dark attempts by esteemed senior dermatologists misprescribing the wrong solutions with terrible side effects.