Dr. Saman Ghalili, MD

Unbelievably poor care. Doctor Ghalili was nothing but dismissive both times I had to go in to see him. He refused to listen to me and, instead, bulldozed the conversations both times, not even letting me explain the concerns I was having. He prescribed me one medication that made me extremely ill (four days of nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea after 1-1/2 doses). When I went back in to get a different medication, he acted like I was an absolute imposition to him. When I tried to have the second prescription filled at my pharmacy, they told me that the insurance required a "Prior Authorization" to cover it (since there had already been one med prescribed, they needed an explanation as to why the second one was being prescribed in order to fully cover the cost). When I called Dr. Ghalili's office to ask them to send that information to my insurance, I was told that he would not do it. I spent three days begging his office staff to get him to send that Prior Authorization to my… insurance - I even had my insurance call his office directly - and he utterly refused to communicate with my insurance. The nurses actually told me, verbatim, "He doesn't talk to insurance" and "*he* says you don't need it" when, in fact, I absolutely did need it. He refuses to hold himself to the most basic standards of a practicing physician, he clearly does not care about his patients' health, mental or physical, and I would not wish him on anyone.