Bruce Bevitz, MD

I moved back to the Orlando area recently and needed a gyno. All I needed was a check-​up and birth control prescription and ended up getting a very unnerving experience. Dr. Bevitz asked very personal questions that were completely irrelevant to my health and was, for lack of a better term, creepy. He had no bedside manner and was incredibly condescending. While the rest of the staff was friendly, this man was pushy, smug, and frankly pushing the boundaries of the doctor-​patient relationship. Whatever you do, find another doctor.

Very displeased. My wife’s period is always weird, so she didn’t think much of it when she missed it for a while. Also because of this, when we took a pregnancy test and it came back positive, we were happy and excited, but had no idea how far along she might be, so we hurried up and made an appointment with a gynecologist and it turned out she was 14 ½ weeks along. Awesome, but this gyno was not very pleasant and had no bedside manner. We made a 2^nd appointment with her, but my wife wanted to change gynos before her second visit. We took time choosing who she would go to for her 2^nd appointment, and after about a week of reading reviews and talking to family members who had been pregnant before, we settled on Dr. Bruce Bevitz. It was just past midnight, but my wife wanted to see what the place looked like so we drove past it, and then after giving her final approval, the very next day I called bright and early at 8:30 when they opened. First problem, while they open at 8:30, they don’t answer phones until 9am. What’s up with that? Next, I explained on the phone that at this point my wife was already 15 ½ weeks along and needed to make sure that they could see us relatively quickly, as an appointment a month out would put us at almost 20 weeks. We didn’t want to cancel our appointment that we had with the previous gyno if we would have to wait that long before we could get in somewhere else. The lady on the phone said that she couldn’t schedule us any appointments until we did a record transfer from my wife’s current gyno. I explained that my wife didn’t have a «current gyno», as she had only had one appointment so far, and that even then that was simply to verify pregnancy. The lady on the phone said «that’s fine, but you just need them to fax that» and then said that after they got the fax Dr. Bevitz would have to decide if he wanted to take us, since we had already been seen by another gyno before. I explained that the appointment we had already scheduled was for that day, and that if we didn’t go and instead did this record transfer, and then Dr. Bevitz ended up not taking us or there wasn’t any appointments available for weeks, we would be screwed and possibly well into the 20^th week before we could see anyone. The lady didn’t care. I tried emphasizing again that the only previous visit we’d had was simply to confirm pregnancy and that nothing else had been done, but to no avail. So in the end, since we could get no guarantee of appointment with Dr. Bevitz, we ended up staying with my wife’s «current» gyno for the second appointment. Lucky for us, she was nicer and more personable the second visit, so it all worked out, but the inability of Dr. Bevitz’s staff to help us, or simply their lack of interest in doing so, is reprehensible. To honestly sit there and say that if we had just walked in off the street we could schedule an appointment, but because we had been seen ONE time by a different gyno just to tell us that we were pregnant, that meant that we had to go through a whole bunch of hoops and barrels, is ridiculous. The very least they could have done was scheduled us an appointment so we could get an idea of how long we’d have to wait, and then if Dr. Bevitz decided not to take us for some stupid reason, they could have just canceled it. But no, they wouldn’t help us out at all.

BEST GIRLY DOCTOR! I love this guy. His office staff is polite, works with you and is competent. HE is polite, competent, friendly, and actually remembers his patients. Quite a feat when he sees me only once a year! When I came in for an appointment the last time, he had to rush out to deliver a baby. His staff made sure that they worked around MY schedule so that he could see me that day (who wants to go in the first place?!) He is quick and they e-​mail you the results (which is awesome since most prescribe to the notion that no news is good news). I would recommend ALL my friends go to Dr. Bevitz.