Sebastian John, MD

For starters, his office is run down and depressing looking. That should’ve been the first warning sign. Then again, everything in Baltimore is run down and depressing… so how was I supposed to know that doctors offices here would be any different? His secretary was deaf and blasted rightwing talk radio throughout the waiting room. I don’t know if that’s better or worse than the usual John Tesh and Yanni’s Greatest Hits that get played in most doctors office waiting rooms, but it was really annoying, nonetheless… especially since Dr. John was always running late.
In all seriousness though, this guy should have his license taken away, and that I’m not even remotely joking about. He misdiagnosed and mistreated a staph infection I had, causing me to have to endure months upon months worth of pain and suffering unnecessarily. His advice for dealing with the staph infection? Put a bandaid with some Neosporin on it over the wound. That’s like telling someone with pancreatic cancer to drink some orange juice and get some rest. After getting some legitimate treatment from a legitimate doctor (Dr. Jonathan Zenilman at Hopkins, who immediately diagnosed the problem for what it was, and immediately put me on a course of treatment which cleared up the infection within weeks, after months upon months worth of suffering the incompetency of Dr. John) I was able to finally get the issue resolved.
I’m not a lawsuit trigger happy kind of guy, but I contemplated suing Dr. John for malpractice for the way he mistreated me, solely so that I could keep other people from suffering at his hands as well. Ultimately, a negative review on Unilocal is probably cheaper and more efficient than trying to do anything through the broken US legal system.
AVOID HIM AT ALL COSTS!!!