MIchael Lewitt, Md's Online Review Report Card

They do a great job!

I am super happy with Dr Lewit. He is direct, professional and extremely competent. I have been going to Dr Lewitt for 2 years and he has my eczema around my eyes under control. Thanks De Lewitt!

Incredible with cosmetics and impeccable bedside manner.

Awful, just awful

dr lewitt great Dr kinda looks like a Romeo with his new mustache service was fantastic but the only problem is after all the years coming here still no milk shake machine woohoo I will be back

If you are interested in cosmetic procedures, learn from my experience! You have to approach it as if you were buying a used car. Doctors generally get into this line of work for the money, and they will encourage you to spend maximally rather than counseling you sincerely based on what's best for YOU. Dr. Lewitt is a perfect example of this kind of doctor. He's very knowledgeable and capable -- in fact, he will do his best to dazzle you by spewing fancy terms and random technical info. The problem is, he doesn't really care whether you're going to wind up feeling satisfied... or ripped off. One reason I say this is that he and his staff never checked up on me afterwards, never took photos or did anything to monitor their results. It would have been nice - just as a courtesy - to ask the patient how they were doing after spending a lot of money to undergo a somewhat punishing procedure. So here's my story. As a birthday splurge, I decided to see if there was anything I could do, for a few hundred dollars, to spiff up my skin... anywhere. I had no major issues, but I thought it would be nice to rid myself of a few of those annoying little blemishes that accumulate over time. I paid $150 for a consult, which was fair enough because it was informative. The consult fee goes toward any procedures. I showed Dr. Lewitt a few spots on my face and he said those were not easily fixable. What he did say was fixable, using a laser, were some spider veins on my legs. He showed me amazing before-and-after photos of people who were terribly disfigured and whose laser treatments helped a lot. The standard line is that it may take up to three treatments to get the desired result. I wouldn't dream of spending that much, but since my blemishes were very minor, I reasoned that one treatment might suffice. I ran that by him, and he said, yes, he thought so. I was told that the marks left by the treatment would fade away in a month or so. Well, after I got into the procedure room I found out that there had been a miscommunication about the cost. It was $150 higher than I'd planned on, and I had to make the decision on the instant because I was taking up the doctor's valuable time. So I said OK. I also found that laser procedures are a much bigger deal than they tell you. It's really quite violent, and there's a risk of going blind, which I also learned about in the procedure room. (Obviously, I had failed to take the used-car approach.) Survived the procedure OK, but I had big spots on my legs that took a full year (not a month, a year!) to fade. And when they were gone, my legs looked exactly, exactly the same as they did pre-procedure. Does the doctor know that? Of course not: He never asked. The only thing that this risky and bothersome procedure changed was my bank balance. I realize that, in situations like this, outcomes can't be predicted precisely. But I don't think he was honest with me about how the risks and potential benefits stacked up. I think he knew I was making a bad decision. I think he took me for a sucker. He didn't care if I wasted my money, he didn't care if I got no result, and he didn't care if my legs were disfigured for an entire year. He had that "surgeon mentality"... I've seen it before. They've been through so much schooling that they think everybody else is an idiot, and that they deserve to profit from their patients' bad decisions. The only way that I was an idiot was by trusting him to give me good advice. Expensive lesson learned.

Absolutely horrible. Go anywhere else.

Medical care is fine, bedside manner is...lacking at best. After having a spot removed from my arm, I was concerned about the way the scar looked and felt. Dr. Lewitt literally said to me, “well, it’s not like you were going to become an arm model anyway,” before repeatedly, and each time more aggressively, asking what I wanted him to do about it. When I didn’t have the answer to how to fix it (I’m not the doctor, sir, you are…) he told me that I was frustrating him. I was intimidated and embarrassed. Later on, I found that he put in the notes “patient was difficult.” Patients come to doctors for help, not to be made to feel badly for asking for help when things aren’t right. I wouldn’t feel comfortable asking questions or raising my concerns with him in the future. Go elsewhere, and find someone who provides the “care” part of healthcare.

Medical care is fine, bedside manner is...lacking at best. After having a spot removed from my arm, I was concerned about the way the scar looked and felt. Dr. Lewitt literally said to me, “well, it’s not like you were going to become an arm model anyway,” before repeatedly, and each time more aggressively, asking what I wanted him to do about it. When I didn’t have the answer to how to fix it (I’m not the doctor, sir, you are…) he told me that I was frustrating him. I was intimidated and embarrassed. Later on, I found that he put in the notes “patient was difficult.” Patients come to doctors for help, not to be made to feel badly for asking for help when things aren’t right. I wouldn’t feel comfortable asking questions or raising my concerns with him in the future. Go elsewhere, and find someone who provides the “care” part of healthcare.

He called me at home the next day to check on me. Very compassionate.