Dr. Tamar F. Brionez's Online Review Report Card

Dr Brionez is Amazing! She and her Associates consistently deliver Outstanding services.

She is awesome. Very welcoming and warming from day 1. Always has a plan.

I was just seen in today and I wanted to say I been to so many doctors and I had experience poor service between the staff and doctors. But when I came in today to see Dr. Brionez I am amazed how the office staff and Dr. Brionez took there time to help me. I recommend to everyone if you need a rheumatology she your person.

This so-called Doctor is only interested in your money and once commercial insurance is gone will drop you on the side of the road and says she cannot take care of you anymore. Treats Medicare patient age patients badly. Office financial assistants are equally bad once if you cannot afford the big drug cost. No alternative therapies were offered. Poor ethics as a physician.

Dr Brionez is the most knowledgeable and helpful physician. I have had issues that have plagued my personal and professional life for years. I was always in a bad mood because of my pain. Now I feel great, my RA is under control and I am able to feel and act normal. I didn’t even know I was in that much pain. I am so glad I went because she explained to me so many things that I could not find answers for on the internet. Thank you so much Dr. B.

Great doc. She seems genuinely interested in improving my health.

I was referred to Dr. Brionez by my dermatologist at the beginning of this month. I was extremely skeptical to go see her after reading many negative reviews for her in different sites. I decided to try her out for myself and am definitely glad I did. She has exceeded every single expectation I had and some. She has been extremely attentive, never dismissive, thoroughly examined me, tested any and all possibilities, and has helped me be at ease. She has left no stone unturned. I highly recommend her.

very hard to get in touch with this office. always a recording on. trying to cancel an appointment is almost impossible. my experience with this doctor and office was not good. when I had a reaction to medication they prescribed a call was not returned for more than 24 hours and then when it was returned I received more than one call with conflicting information and it seemed the doctor couldn't be bothered unless I was willing to pay for another office visit. Never got any answers to the problems I was having. will not be going back to this office. I would not even give 1 star as a rating if I could.

First the "good". She was open to hearing about my experiences, and seemed to generally believe my tale. She continued the medication I had been prescribed by another rheumatologist. (ie. She did not have to make a diagnosis for me.) The "medium": She seemed a little insecure and possibly, too eager-to-please. No problem there. In fact, she offered to prescribe pain medications for me so that I would not have to go to pain management. Definitely no problem there. The "bad": In short order, I could tell that the office began to see me as a problem drug seeker. I wasn't clear on when I should call in a refill for the narcotics. You know too early and it looks like you are over using; too late, and you run out which lands you in horrific pain and some degree of withdrawal. I directly asked her when she would like me to call in the refills. She said "plenty early." As this was still vague, I decided that this meant Monday if I needed them by the following weekend. Each and every time, the prescription was not available for pickup by the time they closed at noon on Friday. This led to severe panic on my part, which I addressed by going to the office before they closed and waiting there to make sure I could get a prescription. They did not seem to understand or appreciate this behavior on my part. By the way, somewhere along the line I reminded her that she had offered to relieve me from the burden of going to pain management practice for routine refills. She looked at me like I was stark-raving mad. Then I got cancer. I stopped taking Humira for over one year, but I went in for a routine follow-up soon after my diagnosis. I asked about the long-term risk of anti TNF meds with the type of cancer I had. (Stage 0 breast cancer). And it truly hurt my feelings to see a reaction of glee overcome her entire person. She said, "Well I'm out then!" I said something like, "I thought it would be a more complicated discussion about risk vs benefit." She replied, "I would need full authorization by your oncologist before I would ever do anything.". Then she slapped her purse across her shoulder, and walked out with her head assistant as they discussed where to eat lunch. Now the "really bad": Recently, I had a significant flair that scared me. (This was after a one year hiatus from seeing her.) I made an appointment for 3pm. The day before the appointment, her head assistant called me up to see if I would come in at 12:30 instead. I agreed. But the following morning, I woke up with severe abdominal pain and fever and chills. Later evaluation showed that I had developed diverticulitis, but I did not know this when I called the office to cancel my appointment, saying that I was "too sick to come to the doctor." As I am a well trained patient now, I expected them to say there would be a 30 to 50 dollar missed appointment charge. But they did not. They just told me they hoped I got to feeling better soon, and to not worry about it. And, did I want to reschedule now or call back later? But here's how it all ended. I got a letter, a phone call, and then a registered letter I had to sign for. The content in each of these communications was that Dr. Brionez was terminating our patient-physician relationship. No explanation was provided. So I have to advise "buyer beware." You may be presumed guilty until proven innocent. Despite all of this, I would not say that she is in medicine totally for the money. At least, not totally.

I feel she doesn't listen. Had she listened when I was telling her for the past year of my horrific back pain maybe she would have caught that I had spondylitis and not fibromyalgia as she kept insisting that was my only issue. Had she bothered to ask if I had dry eyes maybe she would have caught that I had small fiber neuropathy due to sjogrens and not fibromyalgia