Karen Jill Ciccarelli MD PC

Dr. Ciccarelli should have her license to practice medicine revoked. If you value your health, she should be avoided at all costs.
Backstory — I went to see Ciccarelli a few years back to have a prescription refilled after witnessing a horrible car accident that my friends were involved in. I was first on the scene and ended up pulling them out of their burning vehicle. The entire experience was pretty traumatizing and resulted in me being diagnosed with mild PTSD (I would get random panic attacks for no real reason). Another doctor had made the diagnosis and prescribed me Lorazepam, a mild anti-​anxiety medication, similar to Xanax. I ended up going to see Ciccarelli because I ran out of my prescription while I was visiting my parents.
Instead of simply evaluating me, and refilling my prescription, Ciccarelli attempted to prescribe me a different medication. Zoloft. Yes you read correctly. She attempted to prescribe me a long-​term, high-​dependance forming, anti-​depression medication for my acute hypertension. Puzzled by the decision, I told her that I didn’t want to take Zoloft, because I didn’t want to become dependent on a substance for a condition that appeared to be lessening on its own (in terms of severity). I simply needed a short-​acting anti-​anxiety medication to help calm me down during the event of a panic attack.
Ciccarelli’s response to this was, «I’m the doctor, don’t you think I should be making those decisions?» I was absolutely stunned. I literally couldn’t believe that she was attempting to put me on a long-​term anti-​depressant in order to treat my SHORT term hypertension. I refused the prescription.
On my way out the door, Ciccarelli stopped me and asked if I had any friends in the area in need of a doctor. She went on to explain that her practice in Clear Spring (which has since closed) wasn’t doing well and she needed to bring in new patients, or risk having to close the practice. Once again, I was stunned. All of a sudden it made perfect sense… she was attempting to put me on a long-​term medication plan to force me to come back into her office for regular check-​ups, thus giving her practice more money. I was utterly appalled. I left without responding to her plea.
A month or so later, I was talking to a relative of mine who previously had used Ciccarelli as her GP. 17 years old at the time, she informed me that after Ciccarelli learned that she had a boyfriend, Ciccarelli had said, «If I knew you were going to become sexually active, I would have never prescribed you birth control in the first place.»
This made me see red. This doctor actually had the nerve to cast her own personal beliefs onto the healthcare of my family member. In my opinion, this should be grounds to lose your medical license. Not only was it none of her business, but she ABSOLUTELY had NO right to make that comment and threaten to revoke the birth control prescription. You are a PUBLIC SERVANT, nothing more. Get off your high horse and do your job.
Ciccarelli is dangerous. She is not only willing to put her own patient’s well being behind the success of her practices, but shes also no stranger to imposing her own personal conservative beliefs on to the medicine she practices. She should she be ashamed of herself and avoided at all costs.

Dr. Ciccarelli is a very attentive, reasonable and sensible doctor. I hear she even makes house calls.
There is a nurse practitioner on staff, Shannon, who is also wonderful. Shannon is very kind, warm and competent.
The office is located in a house that is down a country road in a residential area. I had never been to a doctor’s office in such a facility and thought for minute that I was driving up to the wrong place when I saw the ranch style house.
There are a couple of things that are off-​putting. Sometimes the front desk staff are little unprofessional. They’ve been known to misplace paperwork. Also, there’s a younger woman working there that will huff and puff and talk out loud to herself when she should really be paying attention to what you need. Also there is a large screen TV in the waiting room… I usually dislike these things anyway because I don’t like to be assaulted by a loud TV in a waiting room. Sometimes they have on the news and sometimes they have on things that are a little more off the wall… like a local-​access televangelist shouting about hell fire and damnation (not really what I want as I wait to see my doctor). We have been known to get up and turn down the volume on the TV when we’re the only ones in the waiting room.
I have had them squeeze me in for appointments when I needed to see someone quickly and I have had them call and reschedule appointments I’ve had on the calendar for months. Sometimes I get to the office and am seen right away and sometimes I sit and wait because they are running behind… it is a bit hit or miss that way.