Jyoti Behl MD

Dr. Jyoti Behl is amazing, but the office has no organization. Wait times vary from 1 – 4 hours and I’m not exaggerating. You will wait a very, very, long time.

I stopped coming here right after my review. Ridiculous waits & basically, she’s a drug pusher. She isn’t there to give you what helps, more for the pharmaceutical companies who put the big $$$ in her pocket. I suffer depression/​anxiety & was given an antipsychotic. Seriously?!?

Horrible is the only word to describe this office. They make you wait for hrs after your appointment time. And she doesn’t even show up until 5:30 or almost 6. Literally has an office full of patients and she only sees each one for 5 minutes to for them the prescriptions. She doesn’t know your name unless it’s right in font of her. A doesn’t ask many questions at all. If I could give her no stars I would.

The worst experience I have ever had at a doctor’s office. Dr. Behl saw me an hour after my scheduled appointment, and spent less than ten minutes with me. In that time, she:
–told me I should be evaluated by a psychologist, but when I said I had been evaluated and that the information was in my medical records, she claimed that if I wanted her to check my medical records I should have brought them to her office, because requesting medical records from another doctor «could take years.»
–claimed that if I was not subjected to a 4 to 5 hour «battery test» for ADHD, then whatever I was referring to was not a «true» evaluation. I mentioned that I had 2 concurring opinions over the last two years, from doctors who spent time getting to know me and my circumstances — something that it became increasingly clear Dr. Behl had no interest in doing.
–refused to refer me to any specific psychologist for evaluation, even after I divulged how difficult it was for me to collect my thoughts long enough to research psychologists during the work day. She said I just needed to call my insurance and that was that.
–wrote me a «referral» that just said «call your insurance.»
–While stunned and holding back tears, I asked «so, is this it then?» She replied with a curt «yes» and showed me door. Literally, with one of those glances toward the exit and then back down to her desk, like a principal dismissing a petulant child.
I made an appointment with Dr. Behl seeking psychological help for ADHD and moderate depression. I was told that I was either over-​exaggerating and probably fine, or an addict; and at any rate, get out of my office.
Not only will I never be back, but if her office charges my insurance for more than 10 minutes, I’m reporting her for fraud. I mean, what sort of doctor claims that there is no such thing as a waiver allowing them to collect your medical records in a timely manner?
I understand and appreciate that doctors can’t prescribe medications willy-​nilly, yet Dr. Behl’s complete lack of sympathy for or interest in her patient absolutely stunned me. She had no desire to review my medical records (as she made crystal clear in our short time together), or even ask me any questions about myself. It was late on a Monday, and I’m sure she had dinner to get to.

Great doctor. Yes you have to wait. Wait times are usually 20 – 30 mins. But shes the only Psychiatrist that takes insurance. She is very knowledgeable, spends a lot of time on the initial encounter.

Sure her bedside manner is decent enough but that’s not worth the strife for all the inconveniences you experience at her office.
For one: The wait is usually atrocious. You can wait for hours only to finally get seen, she writes you your script and the whole thing takes a couple minutes. I feel like precious moments of my life are just wasted away in there for no good reason other than the fact they don’t know how to run their office.
Secondly, the fact that she will NEVER call in a prescription is ridiculous to me. I was recently in a situation where it was extremely inconvenient for me to go in to her office and I had only a couple of my pills left to get me through the week. I called and explained this in detail, asked if they could possible make an exception for this one time and it was a flat out NO. They don’t care about you as a patient, the receptionist on the phone didn’t even get my medication right. If Dr. Behl didn’t have your file sitting right in front of her face, she wouldn’t know your face or story from a hole in the ground.
This last incident was definitely the last straw for me. It will be more challenging for me to find another psych because of my specific insurance but I can no longer go to her strictly based on principle at this point.

Jyoti Behl is a nice doctor but her office is ran like a zoo. The wait times are absolutely unbelievable. I understand that doctor’s offices have waits, it’s just the nature of the beast, but waiting over an hour and a half after your initial appointment time is ridiculous, I’m sorry.