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Complaint Review: Dr. Alan Graff - Fort Lauderdale Florida
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Dr. Alan Graff
3061 E. Commercial Blvd Fort Lauderdale, 33308 Florida, USA
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Dr. Alan Graff UNETHICAL MEDICAL PRACTICES Fort Lauderdale Florida
Dr. Alan Graff is a PCP Doctor operating in Fort Lauderdale Florida. I would like to warn anyone who is considering joining this doctors practice to reconsider and find a different doctor for several reasons:
- Dr. Graff will do everything possible to convince you to sign on to only the medical insurance plan "he choses for you" and if you don't take his plan he will press you in future visits to change and tell you that "you must give up your plan" and go with his plan! It would appear that he has some kick back with certain plans. This is highly unethical!!
- When you need referrals with a medical provider that he does not approve of he will turn down the referrals and tell you that you don't need these doctors that he will take care of all of your needs. But he actually does not do any of the services that he claims he will handle. He just basically refuses to let you go to the doctors you need to see!!
- Good luck if you ever have a prostrate problem!!! You can't get a prostrate exam out of this doctor. He also refuses to let you go see an Urologist but he won't do the exam himself.
He is a terrible Doctor! Do yourself a favor. Don't make this doctor your primary physician!!
2 Updates & Rebuttals
Dr Alan Graff
#2Author of original report
Thu, June 30, 2016
i have moved to a new Primary Doctor & have never experienced the outlined issues I expressed in my complaint. It would appear to me that you are an employee on staff based on your comments.
Purple Falcon
Pompano Beach,Florida,
USA
Never had any such experience
#3Consumer Comment
Mon, June 27, 2016
I have used Dr. Graff for years, and he has never encouraged, or even suggested, I get involved in a different medical plan, nor has he done anything whatsoever that would lead me to suspect his ethics or competence.
I have my own urologist, cardiologist, proctologist, and a few other 'ologists. He knows about some, and has never offered to do 'ologist work, and has never commented on my 'ologists.
I am smart enough to know that you don't use a GP to do a prostate exam – you use a urologist. I would expect Dr. Graff to decline doing a prostate exam, a colonoscopy, a cardiology stress test, and anything else that is the province of a specialist.
As for refusing to let a person go to a specialist, that's absurd. What is more likely is that the complaining person asked for a referral, and the doctor considered the patient's circumstances and declined to do so. That's a doctor declining to humor a hypochondriac, or patient who believes he has a condition that symptoms don't support. There are plenty of doctors who will humor such requests, and if your request is reasonable (under your circumstances), you'll easily find one to give you the referral.
Complaints that use broad generalities, like this one, do little to further truthful reports. A useful complaint would list the symptoms a person has and the type of referral sought ... and let us readers come to our own conclusion. If, for example, you're 72 and he's telling you to change from Acme Medical to MediCare, well that would certainly color my opinion of your complaint, and if you have MediCare and he's encouraging you to switch to Acme Medical, that also would affect my opinion of your complaint. If you're in your 30's and had a prostate exam three months ago, I'd decline the referral if I were your PCP. (By the way, I am not in a medical profession.) This complaint does not allow the reader to draw conclusions.
If you're going to complain, give us readers the facts that support your complaint – not naked conclusions. "He's a bad doctor" just doens't float.
