Maria Soller, MD

Not a good doctor. Don’t come here if you’re looking for any empathy either.
Have been suffering from inexplicable health problems almost a year now. I saw her a total of maybe three times and she basically told me to buck up, nothing was wrong, giving me some simplistic advice. She did order one blood test I requested, and she didn’t even get that right. It was a cortisol test to be done in the morning hours. In spite of it being administered incorrectly (and I do mean in spite, because she did the test begrudgingly), she wrote on the chart that the result was «normal».
My mother came into the last appointment with me, in December. Instead of telling me to my face, Dr. Soller told my mother, right in front of me, that all my physical problems were essentially in my head. Then she told her I needed to see a psychiatrist to get treated for my «major depression». Honestly, fuck you. I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t be majorly depressed by a chronic, unsolvable, and unacknowledged health problem that basically prevents them from living. I’m pretty confident the problem is not that my body is suffering from a deficiency of Prozac, though.
It’d be really fucking grand if doctors could have some humility and admit when they cannot figure out the problem, but doctors like Dr. Soller choose to write the patient off as crazy instead.
So, it is now April and my problems have only gotten worse. I can no longer attend school. I have since switched to Dr. Jane Tsai in the same office, who is somewhat better in the empathy department but otherwise unhelpful and has told me she cannot help me.
Update July ’14: turns out I have chronic Lyme disease