Mello David MD

My first visit with Dr. Mello I was met with a cold and aloof demeanor. I chalked it up to he had a long day and booked an outpatient procedure for further diagnosis. Most unprofessionally, he showed up without my chart and proceeded to ask me my medical history in front of the other staff. It was embarrassing and I have since filed a HIPAA complaint. After determining my diagnosis, I was encouraged to just live with it. I objected and insisted this was not an option for me. I was booked for another procedure. During these months, I was having problems with the front desk not following up with my insurance requests for more information. I constantly was calling Dr. Mello’s front desk to have them fax information. I would catch them in lies all the time. Honestly, I should have been on the payroll I must have spent hours getting them to do their job. Ultimately, Dr. Mello dropped the ball and I ended up fasting and being off my meds to show up at the hospital and my authorization hadn’t been approved due to their incompetence. They failed to follow up with my insurance even with the right coding! The also failed to notify me that the procedure wasn’t approved and I waited at the hospital for hours not knowing. Lack of communication, poor ethics and uncompassionate; proceed with caution! I filed a complaint with my insurance too, and Dr. Mello called my new GI to warn him. Dr. Mello attempted to lie about me to cover his indiscretions; I wouldn’t trust such ethical behavior from a doctor. Find another quick!

I don’t get the negative reviews. Every 5 years for 15 years I need to come see Dr. Mello for my colonoscopy. For such a rotten procedure, I don’t mind coming to see him because he is such a nice man. There is little to no wait in waiting room. His staff is efficient and knows what they are doing. I have never, ever found him to be rude or arrogant. I almost passed out when a nurse at the hospital put my IV in badly. Dr. Mello came to my side and had such a great bedside manner. He is the best and I highly recommend him to anyone that needs a doctor. Two Thumbs up and an A+.

I’m not sure why there are such negative reviews as I have had a great experience with Dr. Mello. He spent his time listening to my complaints and explained what the possible diagnosis may be. He also performed my endoscopy which was virtually pain free and easy. He explained the results thoroughly and gave me all the information I needed about my condition. His staff is also very friendly and attentive and wait time for me has always been under 5 minutes. Finally, I like that Dr. Mello commends other doctors rather than putting them down because that speaks volumes about his character. Overall, my experience with Dr. Mello has been only positive and I would definitely recommend him to other patients.

I do agree Dr. Mello is rough around the edges and he was at times not the friendliest guy.
But he did correctly diagnose me after 15 yrs of misdiagnosis by other doctors, including doctors at USC and other top medical facilities. He spent quite a long time discussing medications, benfits, side effects.
His diagnosis has lead me to live a better life. As a doctor he is great, but I guess years of treating patients has wore down his people skills.

Very rude no bedside manners at all.
A terrible person did a colonoscopy on my husband came out and said that my husband had cancer .
He’s so cold and unprofessional almost like he’s not human.

I was sad to see all the negative reviews about Dr. Mello, when I refuse to see any other Gastroenterologist! I saw two other doctors about my Ulcerative Colitis before Mello, and he is the only one who has ever gotten me to go into remission, twice! He taught me about how UC is stress triggered and gave me a list of foods I should avoid, whereas the other doctors simply told me they don’t know what causes it. He made me feel less depressed and reassured me this wasn’t going to ruin my life, and always gave me all the samples he had at the time for the medication I was on, until I got insurance that covered it. As far as his personality goes, he is a doctor, so that pretty much says it. Every doctor I’ve been to has had the doctor personality, ecxept for my primary care doctor who thinks he is Patch Adams, but that’s a story for another review! One time he did point out to me that his son was working reception for him, and Dr. Mello smiled and I could tell he was proud of his son, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say he wasn’t focused on me. A little conversation can do a lot for a person’s mood, especially for someone like me who thought I was going to die. I didn’t give 5 stars because I think maybe his reception ladies could use a little work. This is a review from someone who has been seeing Dr. Mello for over 4 years! Hope this helps.

I saw Dr. Mello about an issue and I thought him to be arrogant. I decided I didn’t want him to treat me. That was about 1−½ years ago. Recently I was in the hospital for some tests and my primary physician asked him to stop by. I told Mello that I didn’t need his services or his counsel. Then I received a bill from him for $ 350.00 for consulting. I am going to contest this bill because he never did anything.

I had a persistent cough, trouble swallowing, and a scratchy voice. Dr. Mello found a nodule in my esophagus, told me he wouldn’t remove it and just see what happened. No followup appointment was made. I got a second opinion at Valley Gastrointestinal on a Tuesday, was operated on that Thursday. They removed the nodule and 12 polyps that Dr. Mello never saw. I was also told that everything the team saw looked like cancer. The team biopsied the nodule, polyps and all the parts of my esophagus. Lucky for me and no thanks to Dr. Mello, I didn’t have cancer. I have lost my couch, my scratchy voice and difficulty swallowing. There is no way I would trust my health or life to Dr. Mello. I told him someone else helped me and he insulted and berated me. What a jerk and what a shame.

I went to Dr. Mello on a referral. He talked a lot about his own family, and didn’t focus on me at all. He also talked about my place of employment, as he was familiar with it, and not about me. He told me he was tired of telling people about IBS and repeating his talk on it. He put me on medications and did not explain why I was on them, or for how long, and his office never called to schedule a follow up. He also made an off-​handed comment about how I have a heart murmur — something that has never been diagnosed. I ended up going back to my doctor and to a cardiologist and do NOT have a murmur.
DO NOT go to him — he is rude, unprofessional, and didn’t help me with my problem at all.