Shabnam Sachdeva, MD

A good doctor. She is gutsy and ready to work with you. Unfortunately couldn’t say the same about her stuff. I had couple of financial discrepancies. Its a shame as I kinda liked the doctor. She does like to scare you a bit though…

I have been going to Dr. Sachdeva for just about 10 years and she is great! I have to say she is very contactable and very easy to talk with. Even though it takes a bit of time to see her, as her appointments go over a bit longer than normal, she treats you like a human and takes time to listen to you. I like this old-​school way, and I have no problems waiting to see her.

Dr. Shabnam Sachdeva has been my PC physician for 8 years. She is a brilliant and compassionate doctor with current educational knowledge. She has a wonderful staff assisting her in her very cozy office in Fairfax, VA. She has a creative mind and is intense in her work ethics. She has developed a wonderful atmosphere where everyone can receive top noche treatment and service. Her hours of operation are wide and varied and she works Saturdays as well. She has offices in Fairfax and Sterling, VA. I’d be lost without her.

I’ve been a patient of Dr. Sachdeva’s for at least a decade now (or maybe one year short of one). She has always been kind, concerned for my well-​being and attentive. Sure you have to wait well past your appointment time but that’s because she takes the time to talk with and listen to her patients. I’m nothing less than happy with her services; also, her staff has never once been rude to me and I’ve been able to obtain medical results in a timely manner. I am ALWAYS able to get in same day as well.

Dr. Sachdeva is compassionate, kind, and treats you like a person — not a paycheck. The staff is not particularly personable, true, and you will always wait after your appointment time — 30 – 40 minutes is standard. It’s annoying, yes, but Dr. Sachdeva works very long hours in order to see as many patients as she can as quickly as possible. When I had a seizure that sent me to the emergency room Dr. Sachdeva saw me the very next day. On Saturdays Dr. Sachdeva works in the office by herself so she can see more patients. She answers the phone herself most of the time and remembers exactly who you are when you call. I don’t know, personally, I can push the annoyances aside and recognize Dr. Sachdeva for the dedicated, quality doctor she really is.

This review is on behalf of a family member, she had a terrible experience and was neglected to be informed of important lab results, she was put on wrong medications, receptionists were rude, the list goes on. Overall a very bad experience with everyone in that office. I would never take my business to this doctor.

Bad experience my daughter is been going to her since she born and now she is 15 month everytime we go there with appointment still we have to wait for hours to get to see the doctor when doctor see my baby she also in rush never get to take her time to explain stuff when my baby turn 1 we had the worst experience they try to draw her blood from her arm imagen 1year old and they were looking for her wain I couldn’t see it when my husband came out from the clinic after 1hr he told me they couldn’t draw the blood but that pook needal like 6 times on my 1year old then blame the people who draw the blood 2times and we r so stupid to take my bAby back to her they draw the blood from her heels on my request but when I call for result they said they couldn’t test the blood and top of that they charge me for something they didn’t do so I will never go there It’s heart breaking I don’t like to put bad reviews but this one I had too will never go there

Dr. Sachdeva is an excellent doctor — she’s attentive, she listens carefully, and describes things with patience. The problem is that her offices have terrible time management.
This is the way appointments work at Dr. Sachdeva’s offices (Sterling and Fairfax). They schedule many patients at the same time, at which point it becomes first-​come-​first-​served, whoever signs in first will be seen first. This could work if you have two people scheduled at the same time… but they do this with several people. To make things worse, this causes such a back log that any appointment time comes with a mandatory 30 minute minimum wait time. I’m not exaggerating.

I spent virtually my entire duration in DC seeing Dr. Sachdeva as my GP — initially before my first business trip to India. She was instrumental in ensuring I had all of the appropriate immunizations and meds (anti-​malarials) before bouncing around the globe. That first interaction spawned a subsequent four-​year patient-​doctor relationship where the doc saw me through everything from Delhi-​Belly to minor respiratory infections to a life-​threatening viral plague*.
The awesome things about Dr. Sachdeva are that she’s generally accessible via mobile, she’s personable, and has crazy long hours that she splits between the hospital and her two offices, one in Fairfax and the other in Sterling — both of which were roughly equidistant from my condo. Name me another GP that will see patients at 1900 hours on a weeknight. Go on. Try.
Perhaps the most challenging aspect of going to Dr. Sachdeva is that the office staff always seem somewhat scattered, they’re typically quite brusque, and most annoyingly, the schedule never runs on time. You’re pretty much guaranteed to wait an addition 30 – 45 minutes beyond your appointment start time to actually see the doc. Know this going in, bring some reading material, and you’ll be less frustrated.
On the whole, I genuinely enjoyed my interactions with the doctor. I certainly felt like I was treated as an individual, and not just a patient. And that counts for a lot, in my book.
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* Okay, so it might not have been life-​threatening, but I came down with something awful while consulting in NYC. We first tried to kill with antibiotics, only to discover later that it must have been viral. I was so feverish and quasi-​delirious that my coworkers had to send me back to the hotel we were staying in, and one of them even brought me dumpling soup because I was too loopy to go out into the world.
Dr. Sachdeva was nice enough to call in a script to the nearest CVS late at night, which got me back on my feet. To this day, I can’t think of the Flushing Sheraton without associating it with the plague. Thank goodness for awesome coworkers and a doc that I can reach on her cell late into the evening!