Greenberg Joseph H MD & Peng Albert MD

Office people are horrible here. They do not follow up, they do not return your calls and when you go to check status they say they will call you but they do not… Terrible service. Doctors should be top of these people and make them do whatever they suppose to do. My insurance directed me to Dr. Greenberg’s office. I should have taken all the bad reviews here into consideration and find a different doctor. Not happy at all.

I recently saw Dr. Greenberg for surgery to remove a basil cell from my chest. Once I got seated he was speaking to his assistant and asking about the photographs that they took prior to the biopsy, so they could locate the area to perform the surgery. I heard his say «I guess that was the day there camera was not working». He proceeded to perform surgery not really knowing if he was removing the target.
To make matters worse, he and his assistant talked the entire time I was in the office during the procedure. I have never experienced this kind of unprofessionalism. I intend to file a complaint with the appropriate medical board. By the way several of the stitches broke after about a week and I had to see another doctor to treat. Obviously I wasn’t going back to have him fix it. Never again.

Dr. Joseph Greenberg is the best doctor I have ever had. I asked him, decades ago, if he would be my primary care doctor, because he is such a good detective. Thirty years ago, he was my first doc who figured out that I had high cholesterol — because of a skin thing on my eye. And indeed it has been a major factor in my health. I first went to him for a dark spot on my lip, which he biopsied without fuss. Before I knew it, he had sent it to the lab. I had a freckle that looked just like every other freckle on my body that Dr. Greenberg recognized as melanoma. He caught it so early that it was still «in situ» and what could have killed me elsewhere has never given me another problem. He tells me that I can see him as frequently as I’d like for body scans, even just to reassure me. He was solicitous when I had a serious non-​skin cancer and gave me a lot of information, always asked me about my labs. I think these three people with negative reviews of Dr. Greenberg may have caught him during the period of time he himself had a serious cancer. Dr. Greenberg has been named to the list of 500 best doctors in the country year after year. He will probably retire in not too long, though I am amazed at how responsible he feels to keep working for his patients.

A few months ago, I had an appointment with Dr Greenberg for a check up and to remove some spots on my legs. He seems very hurried and short. During the spots removal treatment, I experienced severe discomfort. That evening I developped blistering and an infection began the following day. So, I return to the office and I was informed that he would be out of the office for the entire month. The only suggestion they had was to see another doctor the following day. I decided to show the infection to my primary doctor, because it was getting worse and I was in a lot of pain. I was put on antibiotics for 10 days. I wrote Dr Greenberg a letter explaining everything but I never heard back from him. When I receive his bill, I wrote a second letter, because I didn’t feel that I should have to pay for this treatment. Finally, he called me, explaining very briefly that this could happen and I have to pay ! After all of this, I paid for a treatment that left me with permanent scaring.

Dr Greenberg is ok… the office is small and cramped and the appointments are usually very very short. My husband had not even had time to fill out the paperwork and the dr had come and gone… less than five minutes on a new patient. His manner and explanation leave a bit to be desired.

I had been an infrequent patient of Dr. Greenberg’s seeing him or his associate for the procedure of Sclerotherapy. This time when I saw him he was curt and after he finished he left me to clean and bandage myself unlike other offices where the nurse always comes in after to wash the blood away and properly bandage the injection sites.
Within a month my broken veins had extended far beyond the original site giving the impression of a bruised and mottled leg looking so much worse than the condition I came in to remedy.
I sought out other physicians for advice and they patiently explained that there were risks to this procedure and there was a good chance the unsightly result of my office visit to Dr Greenberg will remain. If Dr. Greenberg had explained the risks to me, I would have opted out for who needed to take the chance and come out of it with irremediable results.
I called his office and spoke with his office manager who was kind and responsive. I let her know that I believed a refund was appropriate. When Dr. Greenberg called me back he let me know right away that if I was asking for my money back «it wasn’t going happen». He never even suggested that I should come into the office and have a look at my leg, only surmised my condition by my symptoms. He ended the call telling me there was good cover ups on the market these days!