Pediatricians - Lakeland, FL

"Dr. Moore had been my baby’s doctor for about 7-8 months (since almost he was born) and I had enough after our last visit (February, 2015). I don't recommend Dr. Moore especially for the new moms. You have to do your research about baby’s development and ask him questions if you want to learn something from him. As a new mom you can’t guess everything and do a research about what may happen next. He is also very negative about everything. I always feel very down after our visits even though my son is perfectly healthy and not just meet but exceeds development milestones. I come home doing more research to check if everything is ok or not. Thankfully my son hasn't been sick seriously, so I can’t tell you how he would do a treatment during a serious situation. But I wouldn't trust him. Another big no is that my sweet, almost never crying baby, cries a lot during our every visit and he didn't do that with any other doctors that we saw. His nurse, Shirley was so rude and harsh to my baby. She was also very angry when he was crying and kept forcefully pushing his head down to the table and twisting his arm when she was doing a simple procedure like measuring his head and taking his temperature. She didn't even let me to comfort him and calm him down. She even pushed me. He is such a sweet baby that if you talk to him and try to distract him, he would easily calm down. She shouldn't be a pediatric nurse if she doesn't like kids. The only good thing about Dr. Moore’s office is his other nurse Stephanie. She is a very lovely person. Dr. Moore is lucky that he is in Watson Clinic."

"My daughter has gone to Dr Velez last two years. She is very informative and educated me on information for my daughter's ADHD medications and options for school accommodations. Very polite and good with my daughter and follows up with questions or needs when I contact the office. Just wish I didn't have to always go through the appointment reps for a question that only the actual office can answer! Dr. Velez has excellent bedside manner, which is important to me."

"He was seeing my little sister and wrongly diagnosed her with ulcerative colitis, treated her with inmune suppressive pills with a super low dose and put her straight after of course it didn’t work with an IV infusion. Then when it stopped working instead of lowering the frequency or combining it with pills with NO AUTHORIZATION NOR NOTICE to her parents he gave her Stelara, which is NOR APPROVED TO USE ON KIDS!!! He could have killed her! He didn’t even ran the needed blood test before or after giving her the medication NOR EVEN EVER ROLD US WHAT HE DID “on accident” this is the most unprofessional irresponsible doctor I’ve ever seen in my whole life"