Lawrence Goldman, MD at 21 Eastport-Manor Road in Eastport, New York

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  July 25, 2017 Dr. Goldman is a doctor and, I believe, owner of First Choice medical. I use FCM as my primary care doctors and I went in today to get a physical and paperwork filled out. In the exam room the nurse asked me to get on the scale. I explained that as a result of a ten year battle with disordered eating, I chose to only be weighed by my psychologist (who I see every 4-6 weeks). This, along with other behavior modifications, has given me my life back; I eat without restriction, I don't feel the need to exercise off every calorie I consume, I enjoy going out with friends, AND most importantly I am healthy enough to go to law school. This was explained to the nurse, who then dropped the issue, took the rest of my vitals. When Dr. Goldman entered the room he informed me that I needed to get weighed. I repeated what I said to the nurse and offered to sign a release so he and my psychologist could work to better manage my emotional and physical health. He then jumped into a long monologue about needing it for insurance coverage. This is not true for ANY patient (NY state law allows patients to deny any test, which weighing in is considered) but I offered to call my insurance to verify, his response; "Next time, for now just get on the scale," disregarding my concerns and arguing with me for ten minutes. I offered a weight range (accurate within ten pounds); so it is not medically necessary for me step on the scale (how much difference is 10 pounds?) So everything came down to an arbitrary demand against my psychologist's advice; who I offered to get on the phone at that moment. A primary care doctor's job is to coordinate with the patient and any specialists they are seeing. He refused to talk to an important part of my health team, and instead he was condescending, rude and subjected me to ten minutes of nonsense about insurance companies and how important the BMI is.
  December 15, 2016

  by Chrissy Green

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