Payum Abdarbashi, MD at 28040 Dorothy Drive #103 in Agoura Hills, California

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  It's true that he is personable and appears to listen. But I feel like he’s homophobic, arrogant and flakey. He was my doctor for three months before I found someone else. I went to see him because I had moved from L.A. and I needed a local doctor to take over for a doctor I had been seeing for 20 years. I am in my 50's and on maintenance medication for blood pressure and depression. I've been on the same medication for 16 years which is all good. And I was having a problem with my knee at the time. Dr Abdarbashi wanted to take a whole battery of blood tests. I can understand that I guess since he didn't know me, and it’s common to have labs done once a year on older patients. But one of the tests he insisted on taking was an AIDS test. I told him I didn't need or want one, that I was lesbian and had been celibate for 2 decades, since my last HIV test. He Listened with a smile of fascination his face, asked a lot of personal questions that I felt were doing something for him personally, then once again insisted I take an AIDS test. We went round and round on this. Clearly he didn't believe what I was telling him. He seemed fascinated by what I was telling him but simultaneously dismissive. I ended up doing it because if I didn’t capitulate, I didn’t think he would have proscribed me the maintenance medication I needed and the whole $500 appointment would have been a waste. Of course it came back negative. The dumbest $110 I ever spent. Next, he wanted me off my antidepressant. Again, I was having no problem with that med, felt it was working perfectly but he didn't like the idea of a person being on life time meds. Then he started in about my weight. I am over weight, it's true, but I'm in good over all health and happy with myself as I am. At this point I was beginning to feel this appointment was about his concerns and not mine. That probably wouldn't have mattered if we had shared the same concerns and goals for me, but we didn't. He wasn't concerned about my knee which turned out to be lactic acid crystals growing on the tendon, diagnosed by MRI, (I will say he at least wrote me an MRI prescription but I sensed reluctance from him to do that. And once the test results came back, he showed no interest in the findings what-so-ever). He was willing to write me a script for my current medicines but wanted to see me every 3 months to moniter me. This felt pretty over-kill as I had been on these meds for years and all he needed to do is pick up the phone and call my former doctor if he needed verification. I was open about feeling like 4 visits a year to monitor old medications was pretty excessive and I told him this. He then said every four months visit would be sufficient and after a year of seeing me he would then cut the visits back to a yearly check-up. I agreed that this seemed fair and said I would come back in 4 months but when my perscriptions were set to expire 3 months later he would not refill them until I actually came in. It’s as if he didn’t believe that I would come in a month after, and was therefor holding the refills back. All in all it felt like he was trying to show me that he was in charge. I was doing what I agreed to do, and I felt he was acting manipulatively. I never scheduled that appointment and found a doctor I now see once a year. I would not recommend Dr Abdarbashi to any gay patients, ( I suspect that’s what the aids test was about) patients on maintence medication or anyone who is overweight but content with their body unless you don't mind being lectured.
  October 27, 2017

  by summer day

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