Dr. Michael B Albert, MD

Several years go I started to go to Dr. Albert who originally diagnosed my Barrett's Esophagus. He and my primary care physician worked together to determine a regimen of meds for me. Fortunately, he followed my condition closely because it eventually turned into esophageal cancer which he caught at a very early stage because he saw something that he didn't like and sent a biopsy to the Mayo Clinic which confirmed his diagnosis. He then referred me to Johns Hopkins for treatment. It was his professional and thorough treatment of me that prevented my condition from becoming worse. Excellent care.

Dr. Albert has done colonoscopies and upper endoscopies on me for over 20 years and has always been caring, efficient and easy to talk with. There has never been a problem with his procedures or his advice.

Dr. Albert immediately diagnosed my colonitis and prescribed medicine. In two weeks all was back to normal. Lovely bedside manner. Easy to talk to.

Dr. Albert has a very compassionate manner; I only wish he had the medical knowledge to go with it. He made a number of mistakes in treating me (small, luckily, but one involved ordering the wrong X-ray study and I underwent the wrong preparation. Fortunately the radiologist's nurse caught the error). He prescribed doses of medications for my condition that were not effective, according to all the medical texts I looked at; he would get worried about things, discuss them with me at length, and then not change them... I felt like he was under-experienced and needed supervision from a more experienced doctor. I liked him personally and would have stayed with him, but the errors and poor choices worried me too much.

I went to Dr. Albert with abdominal pain. He thought I could have appendicitis and sent me for immediate ct scan. They discovered a large kidney stone and I had to have emergency surgery.