Henry M Paszko's Online Review Report Card

I had been a patient at Dr. Paszko's private practice for over 15 years and maybe saw Dr. P a handful of times. Each encounter that I experienced with Dr. P, usually involved him being arrogant, condescending, and more involved with expressing his theological views, rather than listening to me and my health concerns. He often would ask me if I was involved with a church and if I prayed to God. I knew his practice was faith based, however, no other provider at this practice, prayed for me or ask me such personal questions on my faith. I was uncomfortable with how Dr. P was more concerned about my faith practices than my health needs. In addition, his office staff would always offer me the first available appointment for the PA I usually saw and then at the last minute I would be called into the office to be seen or I would not receive my prescription to manage seizures. This was the policy of Dr. P., that patients be seen every 3 months. The staff seems to change a lot too.

Please do NOT waste your time. I was a patient at Dr. Paszko’s private practice for over 15 years. Recently, I had a medical issue caused by his nurse practitioner that has since left and moved to Ohio. I was prescribed 3 medications that knowingly have serious interactions when taken in conjunction with one another but because I trusted his NP, I didn’t research the drug interactions, and it also wasn’t caught by Walgreens until days later. When I experienced a medical emergency and was in his office for a second time in 3 days, and in the emergency room a day prior due to this medication interaction, he basically asked me if I had a church, prayed for me, told me to stay out of the emergency room and to CONTINUE the exact medication causing the medical emergency. I later received a letter from their office manager that they were discontinuing my care and gave me less than 30 days to find a new doctor while they prescribed me a medication to control seizures and refused to fill it.

Worst doctors office I’ve ever been too. The actual MD in the office, only saw him once in the 5 years I’ve been with the office. Which he was terrible, always cuts you off when your trying to share your issue, he is very belittling and degrading. Then on to the PA, Brooke, unprofessional and rude. Coming from someone who suffered a very bad case of vertigo. Shared I was In need of a nausea medication to help the dizziness, was told I needed to go to the hospital that she couldn’t help me, that I needed to be completely diagnosed first. Also coming from a person who suffers anxiety, she neglected to fill my anxiety medication and when I shared I had felt like I had given her ample time to fill it in advance and that I was going to need to find a doctor who was willing to help she declined filling my meds and denied. Mind that any patient with severe anxiety would tell you, panic attacks and the hyperventilating from panic attacks is terrible and something no one should have to deal with. Worst office ever. Would not recommend this place to anyone. Terrible staff, very unsanitary and very unprofessional and rude

Henry M. Paszko, M.D. too easily drifts away from objective facts / sufficient evidence-based orthodox physiological medical science ... towards his own strange, rushed, unverifiable, and unsolicited "opinions" on matters totally unrelated to your purpose(s) for the office visit. Answer his off-topic questions at the office visit at your own risk. His "clinical" practice of medicine might not bother you unless you someday discover that his slanderous "whole person" independent perspective has been indelibly transferred into your medical records. If you find a surprise hoax diagnosis based on insufficient evidence in your medical records, see the first google search result that comes up with, "Amending Your Medical Records in New York State" and "Fraud In Medicine - New York State Department of Health."

Here is a breakdown of a typical appointment. Show up 15 minutes early to an appointment. Wait in line as a patient argues with the secretary, she clearly is new and has no idea what she is doing. Moving forward I check in and take a seat. While waiting more patients walk in and check in as well. 11am rolls around and the nurse walks into the waiting room and calls a different patient who checked in after me. Makes me feel greatly appreciated. This happens once more and now its 11:30am and I still have not seen the doctor. Finally it's time for me to see the doctor and the nurse calls me back. After waiting 20 minutes in the patient room the doctor walks in and we small talk for 5 minutes. I express my health concerns and and the doctor uses very broad terms because they clearly have no idea what they are doing. Then they have the audacity to tell me to come back in two weeks for a follow up after offering common sense advice. I personally pay a $25 copay for each appointment and I feel that is ridiculous that they can ask me to come back after providing zero insight or medical guidance. The practice feels more like a scam than a doctors office. Paying $25 copay and then not making any progress on my health concerns is the the exact opposite of what I expect out of a doctors office. I would not recommend that anyone uses this practice. You can save yourself the trouble and go to urgent care, pay $50 and get results in less than an hour instead of two weeks. The employees at this practice have no respect for patients time and wellness. ______________________________________________ My last appointment I waited one and a half hours just to see the doctor as multiple people who checked in after me recieved their service first. You will spend 99% of your time waiting to get sub par results. On a side notice the office is very dirty and not maintained how you would expect a private practice doctors office to be.

Office staff was fine- it appears that the Doctors are less that knowledgeable about medicine. If you have an issue they refer you to call 911 or go the hospital. Urgent care is by far a way better place to go. They spend time and actually talk to you for more than 5 minutes. Being a private practice and not affiliated to a hospital was a plus for me when I was looking for a doctor However- I was sadly disappointed. Now my opinion is having your doctor affiliated with a hospital might be better. All of the negative feedback I am reading is true to form. Overall I’ll keep going to Urgent Care for colds and other issues and look for another Doctor who I can see for maintaining my health.

The office manager at Churchville chili family medicine told me I had to come in for a physical, I said "you do not tell me what I will do with my time and my money" her answer "what do you care it only cost you $10" in an attempt to coerce me to come in for an unnecessary office visit she then withheld the prescriptions for my heart medicine, this woman put my life in danger. Her excuse was that I had signed a contract that I had to come for an office visit every time I need a prescription filled. I said to her send me a copy of that agreement. Guess what, she lied, the only time you have to go for an office visit is to get a refill on a controlled substance I wasn't taking a controlled substance. In my opinion she was trying to shake me down. I think they like elderly people with good insurance because then they can con them. I challenge Dr. Paszko to contact me.

Dr. Henry Paszko is the best doctor I've ever had! He is skilled and knowledgeable while being caring and compassionate. I recommend him at the highest level. Please read a little more below: Being of retirement age, I have participated with health care people for 66+ years. My first doctor was my great uncle, Douglas Arnold, of Buffalo (private practice and Children's Hospital, and Fran Driscoll, nurse). Very good doctor. Other doctors along the way have been Grand Island, NY private practice doctors Dr. Rayhill and Dr. Ubel (at school); Brown University Health Services and Rhode Island Group Health Services (in Rhode Island); Harvard Community Health Services (Boston, MA); and Olean Medical Group (Olean, NY). All of these doctors and groups offered excellent care. I feel that Dr. Henry Paszko and his staff have given me better care than all these others for the last five years. Dan C.

Our family has been receiving our care here for over 18 years and would highly recommend this practice to anyone who wants good care. Have been seen by all the providers and find each knowledgeable, caring and helpful.

Legitimately the worst doctors office I’ve ever been to. The staff was rude and unprofessional. No wonder why they were the only office I could find accepting patients. Stay away.