Nigra Thomas P MD

It’s true his staff is horrible. Do not go to this place. The man in billing is also horrible. His number is 301 384 8839. They just want you money. Avoid.

Took my father to Dr. Nigra and am stunned at the complete lack of professionalism and timeliness of Dr. Nigra and his staff. We sat in a old closet of a waiting room for a good 30 minutes (we were even 20 minutes early for his appointment) and when they called my father in, he sat in another room for another 40 minutes!!! He couldn’t take it anymore so we left. The staff didn’t even care to apologize. We all live in the same 24 hours, for Dr. Nigra to think his time is more precious than anyone else’s is preposterous but that’s the feeling we got. This was my father’s second (AND LAST) visit to this disgrace of a doctor. His first visit with Dr. Nigra was FAR from good but the follow-​up was just disastrous. If you want your time wasted, go to Dr. Nigra. Otherwise, go elsewhere for a dermatologist… even better, find a natural treatment for your dermatological woes.

Dr. Nigra is a terrible doctor. He embodies the worst stereotypes of doctors and epitomizes everything that is wrong with medicine in the US.
I came in with a fairly simply complaint: my scalp was itchy. After waiting an hour in a very unclean waiting room, I was finally led into an exam room, where I waited some more until a student finally came in. She asked some questions and looked at the affected area, then left. 30 minutes later, Dr. Nigra finally came in. He didn’t ask any questions and didn’t look at the affected area. Rather, he told me to follow a treatment regimen that I had already been following. Had he asked any questions, he would have known that. When I told him that particular treatment actually made the condition worse, he told me to keep doing it anyway.
Excuse me, what? Yes, he actually told me to do something that was making the problem worse.
He also refused to give me an actual diagnosis. Apparently, he just couldn’t be bothered. Perhaps I was keeping him from his tee time.
I should have demanded a refund on my co-​pay, but I was so angry at him and his idiotic advice that I just wanted to get out of there.
Of course, I got a second opinion from a doctor who actually examined me, gave a diagnosis, and recommended a different treatment option. That doctor did his job. Dr. Nigra did not.
Also, Dr. Nigra appears to be biased toward using Rogaine for every scalp condition. The reasons is that he is one of the doctors who developed it, so of course he has a financial interest in getting as many patients to use it as possible, even if it has nothing to do with the patient’s problem. This is a conflict of interest, and Dr. Nigra should be ashamed.
In short, Dr. Nigra should not even call himself a doctor. He didn’t do what a doctor is supposed to do.
Don’t go to Dr. Nigra!