Franco J Gerardo, MD

If I could give NO star I would. Be ready to wait at least a few hours. Whomever schedules the appts, they triple book. Now as for the doctor. He needs a reality check. Very bad attitude. Does not know how to speak to patients. Left there worse than I got there. I’m giving you fair warning. Choose another doctor.

Breast-​feeding mothers BEWARE! I went to this medical office for a bad sore throat, they could not let me see the doctor so I saw the nurse. I was prescribed antibiotics (for what I suspected and turned out, in fact, to be a viral infection, my daughter just had hand foot and mouth virus so I tried to suggest that maybe I had got infected… anyway…let’s say that is another story). Then I was told, and here comes the unbelievable part, that in order to take this antibiotic I had to STOP breastfeeding for a week! I repeatedly asked if this information was correct, the doctor insisted (I heard him through the door talking to the nurse). It takes the simplest google search to find out that AMOXICILLIN is totally safe and compatible with breastfeeding YET this doctor had no clue!!! I still cannot believe a medical professional would give me such wrong information, I had not known better he would have compromised my breastfeeding relationship with my daughter. It is infuriating that something like this can happen in 2014. You are a doctor for God’s sake how don’t you know this stuff and I do??? I would give them 0 stars if I could. Needlessly to say even if amoxicillin is breastfeeding compatible I did not take it because I did not trust these people… still shaking my head. The following day I was already better (my daughter infected me with her HFM virus). Simply the worst doctor’s office I have ever encountered in my life. Breastfeeding mothers, and not just them, STAY AWAY! ps To him and to all the nursing mothers who want to be sure of medications’ compatibility I recommend the Infant Risk Center.