Saleha K Baig, MD

Where to begin? Perhaps answering your phones and calling back in a timely fashion. I have been calling for three days. The first day someone answered and said they did not know what insurances they accepted and to call back the next day. I called back the next day and was told there were only appointments for this week and they were waiting for the doctor to come in to let them know if they would be working the next week. Really? You don’t have your schedule more than a few days out? I explained that I work both the two days she offered and she suggested I go to work late. I said that my job doesn’t work that way and I would call back after seeing if I could get my shift covered for the next day so I could come to the appointment. I got a coworker to take my shift so I called back starting at 9AM-​3PM and NO ONE EVER ANSWERED! I received a call back on the THIRD DAY saying I was scheduled the following day (which is not the day that I got covered from work) and with a PA. Every single attempt to call back after is a no answer and no one has called back yet.
Where is the professionalism in the office? Why would you just schedule someone with a PA without asking if that is ok and without seeing if they are even available at that day and time?
This process is absolutely messy, unprofessional, and it makes me question what the Dr is even like.
Don’t waist your time with this office, find a different one.

Worst experience ever coming to this doctor. I have never been so disrespected in my entire life.
When I started going here I was told I was to see Dr. Baig, then I ended up seeing some other person who wasn’t even an MD! Just an assistant of some kind.
The wait time was extremely ridiculous and I noticed people who had just walked in were getting in first before those who have been waiting hours (not joking) obviously she double books appointments because it was nuts. One time when I went there I was in the waiting room with 20 other people. I continued to go because this was the only close place my insurance would cover. The next two times i still never saw Dr. Baig, I saw two more new assistants and would have to explain myself all over again, whatever, I would get my medicine and leave.
But the last time I went, it was an experience that would make me NEVER return here. The two receptionists there at the time were talking so loudly about how Dr. Baig was horrible to them and how she yells at them. Very unprofessional. Everyone in the waiting room heard and we were all starring at each other wondering what was going on with this place. I heard my name called and it was time to pay so I handed the older black lady my card and she walked across the office to scan it and yelled «DECLINED!!!» So me being the very shy person that I am just said okay let me try another card hoping nobody else just heard that. And again she yelled «GIRL YOUR CARD WAS DECLINED» I was so pissed I started tearing up because I couldn’t believe she was disrespecting me like that. I rummaged through my purse to find another card and she literally said to me «how do you go to the doctors with no money» I lost in and snapped back «excuse me?» And she said back to me proudly «I don’t understand how you go to a doctors with no money» I couldn’t believe it. How do you talk to someone like that? I have never been nothing but nice to these receptionists. I was at a loss for words and asked if I could write a check, «nope» she quickly says. Finally found my charge card I wanted to use and it went through but that was the most disrespected I have ever been in my entire life.
I went back to the waiting room and everyone starred at me. They all heard. One lady next to me started telling me she couldn’t believe what she just heard. Another man across the room waiting, added I should speak to Dr. Baig and tell her what happened. So he let me skip in front of him real quick to let her know. (This is my first time actually even seeing her) and in the middle of me explaining what just happened, she says hold on AND GOES AND GETS THE LADY!!! Are you kidding me??? She sits her down and says «continue the story» so I awkwardly am explaining this whole thing in front of the receptionist (I was I knew her name but I don’t remember it) the receptionist starts arguing with me and tells dr. Baig I’m lying. I finally just gave up and said whatever I’m not coming here anymore this is absolutely ridiculous. And so dr. Baig tells me this isn’t the first time this has happened with this receptionist and starts scolding her about how she told me I couldn’t write a check. «She can pay with a check why would you tell her that?» «I thought we couldn’t do checks no more cause they bounce» «this is the first I’m hearing about this»
Dr. Baig just turns to me and apologizes about the experience but still, can you imagine how awkward that was? This place is so unprofessional I advise everyone to find somewhere else, anywhere! I hope that receptionist got fired honestly! Then when I went I left I made sure I got a doctors note because at that point I was completely late for work. The older black lady was standing up front and I told her what I needed. Next thing you know, she rolls her eyes at me and tells the other receptionist that «she needs to get over here and take care of me because she’s not doing it» If you hate your job and your life that much, whatever, but don’t take it out on innocent people who did nothing to you.
On top of that, a few months after this I received a bill in the mail, oh hell no! I called them and said I’m not paying it because I have always made my copay while I was there so they said they made a mistake. That whole business is honestly a mistake.

I’ve been going to Dr baig for 15 years. I get the same medication every time I go for 4 years now.
I went in for a visit and waited 2 hours to speak with a VERY RUDE new NP who said all my previous history doesn’t matter essentially and she SUBSTANTIALLY cut my medication down to the point where it’s causing emotionally harm. How can she do that?!
Going to a different dr. I prefer to go to one where I don’t wait for 2 hours to be told none of my history all of a sudden doesn’t count.
Don’t go. The new NP is VERY RUDE and VERY confrontational without valid reasons.

On May 30, 2014, I took my daughter to the office of Dr. Saleha Baig, a psychiatrist. Upon arriving at the office we were instructed to fill out a cursory survey of vague personal questions. We turned in all of the required paperwork and provided a co-​pay of $ 40. We then waited an additional 20 minutes past the original appointment time. When my daughter was finally called in to be seen, it was not Dr. Baig, but instead a man named Seth Wittner, PA-​C. He did not introduce himself to me or my daughter and simply took her into the office without saying anything. I knocked on the door and expressed my concern since we had purposely made our appointment with a female doctor as that was my daughter’s personal preference. I said «she is supposed to see a female doctor today», to which he replied «nope.» I asked my daughter what she wanted to do and she said since we were here she would give the appointment a try. Out of respect to her privacy I waited in the waiting room. During her appointment I noticed that every word that was said could be clearly heard from the waiting room, meaning that neither my daughter nor any other patient being seen in that office had any privacy to speak of. Less than twenty minutes later my daughter exited the office with a prescription for Prozac and Xanax. Wittner made no attempt to explain the drugs or their possible side effects to me or my daughter. Once again I knocked on the door to the office he was in, and he said come in. I asked him if there was anything he wanted to explain to us about the prescriptions he had just written. He told me he would not talk to me in private and demanded that we discuss the matter in the waiting room. He was so emphatic about this that he actually put his hands on my chest and attempted to push me out of the door. He then called in the entire staff that was working at the time as «witnesses». We just wanted some more information about why he prescribed the drugs he did and about their possible side effects. He flat out refused to answer any questions we had and would only repeat over and over again that we were «setting him up». We asked him «setting him up for what?», but he wouldn’t say. He said we were not asking a clear question so we asked him why he would prescribe two serious, brain chemistry-​altering drugs to a 16 year old girl without explaining the drugs or their possible side effects to either the patient or her parents. He had no answer and just said over and over again that this was a set up. At this point my daughter was extremely upset and crying. He looked her in her face and called her a liar. This experience has understandably left her very shook up and hurt her confidence in all psychiatric professionals. When we got home, a cursory search of his name brought to our attention that he is a PA-​C, or physicians’ assistant-​certified, NOT a psychiatrist. He does not have any training in psychiatry or any experience in family or child psychology. His qualifications are as a GP with experience in cardiology and Otolaryngology (Ear, Nose, and Throat). Why the office of Dr. Baig thought it was appropriate to allow him to fill in for the actual psychiatrist is unknown to us. His only interest was in prescribing medication and getting us out of the office as quickly as possible. Even his face book page suggests that he is nothing more than a drug dealer:
. We intend to pursue this matter by filing formal complaints with all applicable licensing boards. DO NOT under any circumstances allow this man to «treat» you or anyone you care about.

My wife was a patient here. Run away from this office. Long waits, unsympathetic care of questionable competency and constant billing errors await you. All delivered from an uncaring staff. My wife saw the psychiatrist to have here medication adjusted. Then after that, even though the medication was not adjusted correctly, it was never corrected.
This happens because every time you think you make an appointment, you never know if you will be seen or by whom. You could wait two or three hours (not uncommon) or you might see a psychiatric nurse. Of course you might always see her husband the other Dr. Baig. He is a psychiatrist, but what seems to be lost on people in this office is that he is not your psychiatrist or the person you made an appointment to see.
I don’t know why so many insurance companies have her as a provider. Their criteria clearly does not include quality of care.

An utterly atrocious experience. Waits in the office can be 45 – 60 minutes. Dr. Baig frequently double books. The apparent goal is to see the most possible patients in one day, thereby getting the most revenue. It is true that Dr. Baig is competent, but she is completely lacking in compassion. You are just a file, not really a person. The office administration is horrendous. I’ve been billed twice for the same appointment more than once. When I told them I already paid for a particular session, they are incapable of looking it up in their files and still demand that I pay. I have to bring in my credit card records and receipts to show that I paid! Only then do they back off.
If you are looking for a psychiatrist, you obviously need someone to help you, understand you, and hopefully find a medication that will work for you. Find someone who has a long waiting time for new patient evaluations. That is the gauge of a good psychiatrist, not a full waiting room. A full waiting room is only an indication of overbooking and poor time and office management. While you are waiting to see a good psychiatrist, get in to see your primary care physician or general practitioner and they will be able to get you started on medication until you are able to see the psychiatrist.

Dr. Baig is very flexible as far as psychiatrists go. She is compassionate and cares about her patients far more than many other psychiatrists I’ve seen. While her religious affiliation is obvious to even a casual observer, she does not allow her religion to interfere with giving the best, most professional care to all of her patients.
Her waiting room is almost always full and waits can be very long, but this is the sign of a good psychiatrist. A psychiatrist with an empty waiting room is bad news because that means nobody wants to see them!
I am extremely satisfied with the care I receive from Dr. Baig. In fact, I drive nearly 200 miles St. George, Utah to her office in Las Vegas just to go see her.