Dr.Steven Segal Reviews

Did my training for medical assistant very friendly

Love them all. Dr. Segal saved my life. Many times now. Carolyn and Dwight are amazing people with big hearts. Love Ashley too! Good folks with big hearts.

Great place to get healthy. Dr. Segal is very experienced in his field, and counselors are wonderful. The nursing staff are so friendly absolutely amazing.

In my opinion -- all of this is personal opinion--, not-so-good treatment of patient in perhaps eccentric (but probably not all that uncommon) circumstances -- not to be fully explained here. It might have been inability of certain staff psychologist to adapt to new situations or his own intellectual/emotional challenge. "Showing off" credentials just does not impress me -- I have been around MANY PhDs who need technical/know-how help even in their explicit fields (perhaps sometimes being a personal hindrance for them.) I just wanted new/good ideas -- not preaching or meddling with personal belief systems. I believe this to be PART of the current situation -- indirectly. Surprisingly to me, there was some INAPPROPRIATE 'button pushing' going on while knowing of underlying (POSSIBLE root cause -- not sure) 'painful' condition. Ended up leaving shaking -- exciting one of the underlying problems -- felt to be on purpose to cause some kind of epiphany -- cannot think of rational reason. There was also some mistaken (poorly thought out) enabling by claiming things similar to -- not word-for-word: 'you are going to fail' or something similar -- VERY EARLY IN TREATMENT. Perhaps the 'group of dr/therapists' are good for 'vanilla' situations, but not always very successful (perhaps IMO destructive) in some ways. Any Dr can prescribe meds, but doing so in a SAFE way as to not overmedicate then to be abrupt (partially based upon disability pay limitations & effectively REQUIRING more services without warning, NO DIRECT TEMPORAL CAUSE/EFFECT -- very delayed change in situation during financially tight Medicare 'donut hole' and Christmas season) -- the change was explained to be needed due to something known before the PREVIOUS visit, is not 'first do no harm.' (My usage of the term overmedicate is based upon several requests to decrease/change meds due to reactions (severe drowsiness -- needing to sleep again/forgetfulness) in the morning. The continual overmedication (IMO) AND ATTEMPT to follow rules kept patient between rock and hard place. Perhaps patient not being assertive enough -- but difficult to be appropriately assertive in such situations as a medically dependent patient. Esp, when patient worried about survival.) Good news, after due diligence search -- and SOME prep due to expected result of inability to pay for service (e.g. delay in appt), patient is starting to do much better with other Dr. Immediate problem could be resolved after a rocky road and good people (many examples over a few days, including family and emergency/non-emergency professionals.) As you can probably perceive, I am not a poorly informed or unintelligent person (in fact normally very kind/helpful/giving -- but mostly in a bad medical situation -- in more than one way.) 'Brains'/kindness don't keep you from being vulnerable -- in fact, can make it worse.

If you re serious about sobriety I need help getting there to a safe place. Then this is the place to be I cannot say enough great things about this facility and the doctors there and the staff around everyone of them

We had some major issues with the Segal office, including getting a bill fourteen months after our visit. It took a little while to resolve and we had to jump through a few hoops but I am happy to report that the situation was righted by the practice.