Dermatologists - Washington, DC

"Gave me 5 min of his time and was not thorough. Did not feel like I valued as a patient and was extremely disappointed in the service provided. Will not be returning."

"I went to visit Dr. Yolanda Holmes to get a skin review, specifically 1 mole and 2 small skin lesions. Dr. Holmes recommended to remove those 2 small skin lesions with a quick and simple procedure. I came back for the procedure and a medical student from Thailand put the local anesthesia (I still need to confirm if he was authorized to practice in the US on patients, so beware if something similar happen to you), then Dr. Holmes did the procedure and the result of it was terrible. The stitches work was awful. When one of her doctors took out the stitches, when I asked why the result is so ugly, she said that I need to wait a month to see good results. After a month and 2 weeks, now the 2 small skin lesions have become 2 AWFUL MEDIUM sized skin lesions, the opposite of what was intended, unbelievable, I still cannot understand how a doctor can make things worst than what you had before, specially if it was a "simple and quick procedure". Every person that saw my arm questioned me where did I go to do that procedure, they were horrified. They joke that I did not went to a doctor, that instead I probably went to a shoe repairing place to get those stitches. I would never visit again Dr. Holmes and I would not recommend to anyone go there. "

"I strongly suggest you not to visit this person for treatment and to search elsewhere for a professional doctor who can provide professional care and advice. Unfortunately Mr Giannelli has little in the form of communication skills and is extremely rude. He shorts on appointment time and just walks out of the room when he thinks he's done. Part of the reason for this is that he's the only "doctor" that can see patients in the clinic and has to rush through people to avoid keeping people waiting. The system they have is to put people in separate patient rooms and give you the illusion that you're being seen, even though you'll be expected to wait even more after waiting already in the reception. He's very disorganized, and you have to explain everything again each time, and he doesn't take the time to even examine properly, basically just winging it, and not asking questions or asking you. This is making me pretty angry remembering my appointments, the high cost I paid, and the very little time I was given, so I'll stop. One illustration, after walking out of my appointment before I had the chance to ask some questions and leaving it to one of the nurses to finish up with me (even though she was not the person to answer my questions I had), I got up and walked back to the reception, to find him not with another patient, but bantering with one of the receptionists about coffee instead. They are also not diligent at calling you back and putting in prescription orders in a timely manner and I've always had to follow up repeatedly later. Your experience might be different to mine, but this is my account of how they deal with people after going several times to seek medical treatment. "