Binford Nancy Obgyn

Dr. Binford has zero bedside manner and the other negative reviews are here for a reason. My regular ob/​gyn was on vacation and Dr. Binford was covering. I’ve been a patient of the other (awesome and caring) doctor for several years and unfortunately I have experienced numerous bacterial infections. I am very familiar with the symptoms and the usual drill after having been seen in the office for this repeatedly over the years is to call their office, they call in an antibiotic prescription and a week after taking meds I am back to normal until the next flare up. Easy peasy.
Not so easy this time. I had a flare up over the weekend and called the service at 10am and was told Dr. Binford would be paged. I gave making this call a great deal of thought as I don’t usually have a doctor paged but I was in pain and hoping for some help. Fast forward to 4pm, no call back. I understand the doctor is probably busy and things like labor and delivery take priority so figured it must be a busy day. That said, I was in pain and hoping for some relief by being able to pick up a prescription before my pharmacy closes in a few hours. I call again. About an hour later Dr. Binford calls back and I explain the above. She is clearly annoyed and spends the next 5 minutes chastising me for daring to call the weekend phone number with such a «trivial» issue; she informs me «…appropriate reasons would be labor or severe bleeding, like as if I was about to die.» Wow. I could continue, but basically this scolding by her went on for 5 minutes. She ended with she was not going to waste her time calling in a prescription and I could go to urgent care if I really wanted one. Wow again.
I have an idea, Dr. Binford, how about next time you scold the patient who is in pain with a «trivial» issue for 3 minutes instead of 5 and spend the next 2 minutes calling in a prescription.
She is very judgmental and I cannot imagine anyone willingly selecting her to be their doctor. Terrible experience. Dr. Binford: 1, Hippocratic Oath: 0

I truly can’t understand the negative reviews. Yes. Sometimes you do have to wait for awhile if you are going to see Dr. Binford, but this happens when you go to an OB who is delivering babies. Sometimes there are emergencies. However, Dr. Binford is competent, experienced and compassionate. I gave birth to 3 babies under her care. The first, she was going to be on vacation. She lined me up with a delivery date (I was going to be past due) an OB and arranged for me to meet he OB before hand so I wouldn’t be so nervous. The second, I lost the baby a little over halfway through the pregnancy. When the perinatal specialist found the fatal issue and called her office, Dr. Binford began calling me to try and speak with me. I had my phone turned off. She was called several times and when I called her back, she dropped everything to speak with me. She was so compassionate through the entire process. The third, she delivered and I thought she was wonderful through the delivery. Her nurse practitioner Lori Dobbins is FANTASTIC. She is compassionate, knowledgeable and never seems to be in a hurry. I highly recommend this practice.

Full disclosure: I did not actually see this doctor. After the unprofessional, cold, curt, and rude response I received on the phone by two of her staff, I decided this was certainly not the place for me.
I should have looked up the reviews here before wasting my time.
I called to make an appointment as a new patient after being referred by my doctor, who was also a patient of hers.
I left a voicemail to make an appointment (strike 1: hard to get a real person on the phone).
I got a return call shortly after I left my message. I was put on hold several times while she took my basic information.
Then another woman picked up the phone while I was on hold. No one told me I was being transferred. This second woman just said, «hello?»
So I started my story over again. Gave more info to this new person. This person was not friendly at all. She then abruptly transferred me again to another leave another voicemail for a nurse. At which point I just hung up.
I called another doctor (Dr. Winn), where a real human answered who was very nice. I quickly and easily made my appointment there instead.

Nice woman but I am not sure she is 100% paying attention all of the time.