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Apurva Makadiya, M.D.
- Psychiatrists
- Bartonsville, MD
About this business
Location details
7101 Guilford Dr, Bartonsville, MD, 21704, United States
Get directions| Weekday | Schedule | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Mon | 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. | |
| Tue | 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. | |
| Wed | 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. | |
| Thu | 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. | |
| Fri | 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. | |
| Sat | Closed | |
| Sun | Closed |
Dont listen well to patient needs
Dr. Makadiya listens well and will patiently respond to and explain things if you're like me and want to be knowledgeable and on top of the treatment of your health. Good staff.
I needed a doctor, so I made a new appointment with Dr. Apurva Makadiya, he is very understanding and caring. The office staff was kind and wonderful too.
He’s stern and smart, really knows how to make you healthy!
Much better than my daughter's former Psychiatrist. Knowledgeable of mental health and medications.
I told him what had been working for me since I was hospitalized four months ago. He suggested increasing my antipsychotic despite my lack of psychotic symptoms. When I declined the increase, he said it was not going to be a good therapeutic fit. He seemed to lack the ability to see me as a human being, choosing instead to characterize me as a "patient." When I asserted myself rather than allowing him to box me into a "good patient" role, he couldn't handle it and made a hasty retreat.
After about a half hour of questions from this doctor, he cut the interview short and told me that we "weren't a good therapeutic fit". When I probed him for his reasoning, he said "I already told you, we are not a good therapeutic fit". To which I replied, "that is not an answer". It's called circular logic, or gaslighting (making the patient feel as though they are crazy due to confusing the facts). No other explanation, no empathy, even after I started crying out of frustration because I had
Dr. Makadiya goes above and beyond what most psychiatrists would do. He's even called between appointments after researching possible side effects specifically related to my case. He is truly interested in helping his clients rather than just prescribing meds. A rare find!
Dr Makadiya did not listen to me when I told him what treatment has been effective for me in the past, and he made me suffer, I feel, unnecessarily for months by not prescribing me a new SSRI when the one that had been working successfully for six years stropped working. He insisted I begin with psychotherapy first. Then he tweaked the dose of the existing one after one month. My quality of life suffered and after four months of him not prescribing me something new, I insisted it. It sucked what
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Apurva Makadiya, M.D. has a 2.8 star rating with 23 reviews.
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