Andra Munteanu, MD

Dr. Munteanu was courteous and professional. She answered all of my questions and had a calming demeanor. I recommend her without reservation. Amazing doctor. if you’re looking for a GP, Clean and modern office, friendly front desk staff. Actually! Everyone at the office was very personable. Bedside manner was excellent and my check up was very thorough.

This is a good doctor. She doesn’t beat around the bush, rather tells you what you have to know; comes up with scenarios and makes recommendations to your lifestyle or simply asks to change your lifestyle. She is tough, yet encouraging in subsequent visits. It is great to have a doctor who LISTENS and works on getting the patients better.

I picked Dr. Munteanu based on the reviews from several sites. I must say I was happy with my visit. I went for a physical and she was very through. I didn’t wait longer than 10 minutes to be seen (they wait was that long because as a first time patient I had to fill out paperwork). The staff was friendly and efficient. I was there for about 2.5 hours because she did some research on some things we talked about. She will ask a lot of questions to make sure she knows your history and nothing was left out.

Dr. Munteanu has a truly terrible bedside manner. She displayed no understanding or interest in my health condition. It was my primary doctor’s day off and Dr. Munteanu was the available physician. She gave the impression of being in a hurry and answered my questions in a perfunctory manner. I would not voluntarily choose to see her again.

I am thoroughly disappointed with Dr. Munteanu. She practices with Dr. Betman who is my regular physician however I needed an immediate appointment so I went to her because I had pharyngitis. I’ve been getting pharyngitis for 13 years and I’ve been getting strep throat almost all my life. Now, I know there are viral strains of pharyngitis and bacterial strains. She did a brief examination of me and didn’t confirm what type of strain I had — didn’t do a throat culture, didn’t ask about my history or how I knew I had pharyngitis. The illness was inhibiting me the ability to talk and causing me laryngitis along with a fever so I couldn’t go to work and had been out of work for half the week. Over the counter meds weren’t helping with my symptoms. She sends me home tells me I’m a healthy young woman and to continue my over the counter meds and antibiotics won’t help me but if I’m still sick in a week call her and she’ll give me the script for antibiotics. Sorry but I don’t have the ability to sit at home sick for 2 weeks if antibiotics will take care of me in 1 – 2 days. So listening to my better judgement, I go 2 hours later to see a different physician for a second opinion and was given the antibiotics and my symptoms are 80% gone 12 hours after my first dose. I’ve had better service and a more thorough check up from an Ingalls Urgent Aid office than with her — a doctor at Northwestern.

Dr. Munteanu is a very competent and thorough clinician. She seemed to want the fullest picture possible in order to assess my health concerns and I appreciate her straight forward manner. Additionally, I am currently without health insurance and she has been accommodating in pricing and payment. I foresee myself continuing to rely on her for health care needs many years to come.

My wife and I picked this doctor based on the reviews on Unilocal and were really disappointed in the results. She was our doctor since last December and we had the worst experiences with her. The receptionist (must have been a relative) was terrible. She was not organized and there were several issues with insurance that she could not understand or figure out, even though the hospital (which they referred to me to go for tests) and I showed them in the policies where everything was.
The doctor herself was just okay. She always rushed us in the rooms and since she always fell behind and caused waits in the waiting room, she wanted to get passed us to the next person.
She has now moved out of my insurance carrier and no longer does BCBS HMO but even before we knew that, we had already started looking for a new doctor to go to.

Several friends recommended Dr. Munteanu to me and all said what other reviews have mentioned — that she’s very nice, thorough and will take plenty of time with you. So last March, when I started having problems with pain in one of my hands and dropping things (I’m 26 and active, so that’s not really normal for me), I decided to visit her.
It started out well enough, as told to by the receptionist, I arrived 15 minutes early to fill out paperwork. Then was taken to a tiny, stuffy room where I waited a full hour. Ok fine, doctor visits aren’t known for being speedy or in rooms with nice air flow. Finally the doctor pokes her head in, introduces herself, and asks if I wouldn’t mind if a student doctor from Northwestern sits in. I said that was fine. She said she’d be right back.
Several minutes later she came back with the student, introduced her, and left. The student, who was very friendly, spent a good 45 minutes asking me about my family health history and discussing my hand. She spent time moving it around, feeling it, etc. She took detailed notes the whole time. When she left, she left the door ajar and I could hear her and the doctor discussing me, my health and my hand for about 25+ minutes. By then, I’d been there 2.5 hours, and was not happy.
Finally the doctor came in and proceeded to ask me all of the same family health questions the student did, even as she was holding the student’s notes in her hand. She asked about my hand, didn’t touch it, just asked a few questions. Finally she recommended that I quit my job and look for a new one since the repetitiveness of it was causing the pain. She also took some routine blood tests, because I was overdue for them.
Three hours later I left. THREE. Are you kidding me? It gets better though. She said she’d call in a week with my test results. Two weeks later I come out of the bathroom to see that I have a missed call from her. I call back and the receptionist answers. When I asked to speak to the doctor, she said «She just called you a few minutes ago, why didn’t you answer?» I said I hadn’t heard the phone ring. She said «When the doctor calls you, you answer, she is a very busy woman.» I repeated myself, and said I wasn’t ignoring her, I hadn’t heard the phone and since it was a week past when she said she’d call, I hadn’t exactly been sitting on the phone. She ended the call saying she’d have her call me.
Fast forward exactly seven months to now… I never got a call back, and I only just this week received their bill, even though I saw when it went through my insurance company several months ago.
This doctor (and clearly her receptionist) have no respect for people’s time. Why didn’t the doctor just sit in with the student, as initially implied, to save everything from being discussed more than once? A huge waste of time for us all. I will not be back there.

I had Dr. Munteanu for my PCP and looking back, I appreciated that she treats you like an intelligent adult, as you should be treated (I currently have a female PCP who is condescending and has this «I’m the doctor, I’m right, you’re the patient, you’re wrong» attitude which is awful– yes, I’ll switch soon). However, the receptionist, her mother, is overburdened and somewhat-​incompetent. There, that’s the truth.

I can’t say how much I love this doctor. She is honest, open and very thorough. After 4+ years of symptom misdiagnosis by other physicians, she made me get various cardiology exams (even when I thought they were unneccessary) and what do they find? A heart problem! 28 year of being doctored and she is the first one to even consider it, much less find it!
She is great for every day stuff as well. She makes things easy to understand and never rushes your questions. Everyone should have a doctor as great as Dr. Munteanu!

I love love love this Doctor. Everything every one has said is true. She will ask you every and all questions to make sure she pinpoints what is really wrong with you. You may have to wait a little longer to get into your appointment but you are never rushed once you are in. She will take the time. Every one of my appointments have never lasted less then 45 minutes.
Be prepared for her to catch your bullshit and give you straight answers.
I had to unfortunately leave, due to my insurance, this doctor and the second I can get new insurance I am running back.

Dr. Munteanu is my favorite doctor of all time (I’m 28). She gives it to you straight, and calls you on your crap and I like that. She’s thorough, inquisitive and basically awesome.
More recently, I went to a dermatologist who only went off of the forms I filled out in the waiting room to diagnose me and prescribe medication (no lie — she came in the room with the Rx form already filled out — without seeing me). Dr. Munteanu would never do such a thing, as she asks tons of questions. My first visit ran over an hour because she spent time probing on my family’s health history.

I have never been to a Dr. so damn dedicated to getting patients better and on the right track. Very high energy and always on top of things. It’s nice to see a Dr. who really wants to see their patients get well. Dr. Munteanu revived my faith in Dr’s altogether. My last Dr had me jaded and I stopped taking care of myself cause he didn’t seem to care one bit. Just another patient to him. This is not the case with Dr. Munteanu. She made me feel welcome and made my transition to the new Dr. easy. This Dr deserves a medal!