Friedman Sigmund MD

I have been seeing Doctor Friedman for four years receiving allergy shots most weeks and receiving other treatment for allergies as needed. He has a welcoming manner and seems to be genuinely interested in how I’m doing as relates both to allergies and to life in general. His expertise has helped me greatly in dealing with my allergy symptoms. When I first moved to New York about six years ago, I had almost constant, violent symptoms from spring through fall. Now that I have been taking allergy shots from him for several years, it’s very rare that I experience anything more than some slight sniffles.
He has a fairly large volume of patients who receive shots and the office runs like clockwork, not requiring an appointment for shots, they’ll put as many women as can fit in one room and as many men as can fit who are there for shots in another room and Dr. Friedman will usually see a patient who is there for a consultation other than a shot then come see all the patients there for shots in the two other rooms, rinse and repeat. I almost never wait for more than 10 minutes to get a shot.
The only somewhat negative thing that I would say about his practice is this: the doctor doesn’t usually show up until half an hour or so after his advertised hours. The ladies who run the office are there and they answer the phones throughout those times but if you are planning to go in first thing in the morning or afternoon (depending on the day his hours fluctuate), knowing this, you can plan to not show up until about 30 minutes after the opening hour. While it can be annoying when you’re trying to get in and get out quickly for an allergy shot, now that you know, you can easily plan for it. The extremely positive quality that more than offsets this mild inconvenience is that he very often during the heaviest of allergy seasons, stays much later than his advertised closing time to help as many people as he can that day.
I should also point out that the ladies who staff his office are extremely helpful and friendly and when they know you and your foibles, they’ll cater to them. I, for instance, call before going there almost every time that I go in for a shot. The doctor and staff are observant Orthodox Jews and, not being a Jew at all, I’m never sure when there might be a holiday that they might be taking off, so I call. When they noticed this trend and recognized my voice as the voice that was doing so, they started printing out a sheet for me with holiday hours when there is a holiday. At one point, one of the ladies even made a point of calling me to tell me the upcoming holiday schedule so that I would know and could plan my visits around it.
I can’t recommend Dr. Friedman highly enough. If you need immunology or allergy treatment, I cant imagine there’s anyone better in the city.