Dr. Syed M Z A Siddiqi, MD

I have been seeing gastroenterologists for over 20 years and Dr. Sidiqqi takes the cake for the absolute worst I have ever experienced. He overbooks himself, which leads to a massive wait time of 2 hours or more regardless of having an appointment and even getting there early. His “nurse” is also the receptionist so you sometimes have to stand and wait at the window just to even check in. He uses very cheap Rite Aid equipment to check your vitals which I don’t guess I have a problem with if it works, I would just expect a doctor with so many patients could afford something more state of the art, but I guess it’s all about profits. When you do finally get in to see the doctor, he comes very unprepared, never has any of your test results on hand and has to leave to go look them up on the computer which may work and may not. He rushes you through your visit, never actually explaining anything to you or making you feel cared for. His be all end all cure seems to always be “take 2 fiber”… which is obviously very vague and useless, seeing as he doesn’t even tell you how many grams of fiber to take. Some expert we have here. I have been having bowel trouble for the past 8 months, so I let him do a colonoscopy for me to see what is going on. Not only did it take a week to get my biopsy results back, but WE had to call HIM on the day he told us to, and he didn’t even have the results ready for us so we had to wait a whole other day, only to be told to keep taking a medicine that I was never prescribed before in my entire life, and that my disease was “not active” even though I am still having very severe symptoms, with no further explanation or being told the next step to figuring out what is going on with me also come to find out the doctor won’t be in the office for the rest of week so now you’re forced to wait even longer just to get any sort of answer. This doctor does not seem to care about you, all he seems to want is to take as many patients as possible. Do NOT go to Sidiqqi if you care about your health. I personally feel like they are willing to let you die before putting in any effort to help you.

The doctor is taking on too many patients. Always have to wait 2 hours or more to see him even though you have an appointment. He rushes you and don't take time to LISTEN to what is going on with you, nor does he explain what he thinks the problem is, or what he is treating you for and how. If there was a 0 stars I would have given him that.