Med Station

Very competent, efficient and with-​it practice in Nassau County with blood work, x-​rays and other up-​to-​date equipment on-​site. When you’re sick-​they care. In addition to great doctors, the staff is lovely and reliable. :)

I wanted to post today to say I am so very happy to have a place to go if I or someone in my family isn’t well. I have lived in Locust Valley for more than twenty years and for most of these years The Med Station has been our place to go if we are sick. The Staff are wonderful and courteous and we never have to wait long to be seen. I have gone to many physicians before but have never met such a kind and knowledgeable doctor as Doctor Samuel. Our family is very lucky to have this practice around the corner and I am so very grateful for Doctor Samuel’s devotion to his patients. I am just sorry I haven’t written this review sooner.
Marie Cuozzo

The Med Station used to be top drawer, but not for the last five years. The owner of the practice, Dr. Russell H Samuel, a decent physician and personable guy, smart enough to address your problem, and spot other potentially dangerous conditions. Unfortunately none of these skills are utilized when it comes to hiring staff. The best of them are dead on the inside. The mediocre ones are prone to behaviors which intentionally or or not, make clear to patients that they are a huge nuisance. The worst of them are intentionally malevolent. Encountering shitty medical workers once in a while is fairly common, but this sort of overt hostility was first for me, and my daughter as well. I stopped going a few years ago for this reason but also because I felt somewhere along the way Dr. Samuel became a dismissive misanthrope. However because the location was convenient for us at the time, I dropped my daughter off for a routine blood test required by her university. She is a stoic and, if anything, under-​sensitive person. When I picked her up she was in tears. She told me that she was openly mocked, which is hard for me to understand because she is so patient, respectful & polite. When pressed she wouldn’t give details. Anyway– unhappy ending. TWELVE needle marks on one arm. One of these bled on and off for 24 hours so badly that her entire lower inner arm was deeply bruised and swollen for nearly two weeks. It would be in bad taste to recommend other walk in clinics in the area in this review, but if you’re interested go to my Unilocal reviews and you’ll find it right next to this one.

The doctors are ok but the reception staff is the worst of any office I’ve been to. Rude and trashy girls that do not care about patients. I called at 6:40 asking if I could being my wife in for a strep test. She couldn’t swallow. The person on the phone said I could being her right down, they don’t close until 7. We were right around the block and got there 6:48. Walked in and the receptionist just barked «CLOSED» at us. As I started to explain that I just called and only needed a strep test she cut me off mid sentence again with «CLOSED» while not even looking at us. Then the other receptionist said «we’ll there’s no doctors here anyway». Luckily there was a doc in the hallway who overheard us and said she would do the test (which took 5 minutes). Afterwords, they charged me $ 10 more than I was quoted over the phone and said «I’m doing you a favor by not charging you a new patient fee». Oh, thanks a lot! Fire your ghetto receptionists and hire some nice girls!