Triangle Gastroenterology

I had been struggling with pancreatitis for nearly two years before coming to see Dr. Tumbapura at Triangle GI. I was a patient at Duke and UNC GI departments and neither one could not find out why I was getting these recurring episodes of pancreatitis. Duke put me on meds and four procedures. I was fed up and decided to try someone new. I wanted a smaller doctors office where the doctors and staff actually knew who I was and cared enough about me to treat me. I happen to find Triangle GI online and decided it wouldn’t hurt to see someone there.
After my initial visit with Dr. Tumbapura, he looked over past images and scheduled a new one to compare. On the second visit we went over together what the images showed — he actually looked over the images with me and showed me where and what he thought was the problem. Just this alone was more than any other doctor had done at Duke and UNC. I was touched to see someone actually cared enough to treat me as a human rather than a test patient.
He schedule one more image of my gall bladder called a HIDA scan and found out his prediction was right and that the problem was my gallbladder the entire time. It had been a dead organ in my body for years. We schedule to have it removed through another doctor, and ever since, I have been able to eat normal again. I have been able to put weight back on and exercise again. I am so thankful for this place, as this review hopeful expresses. I would recommend them to anyone. Even if they never figured out the problem, the fact that they were personal made a huge difference.

I’ve been seeing Dr. Holt for a couple of years now and I could not be happier with my treatment from him and his staff.

HORRIBLE PRACTICE DO NOT GO HERE!!!
It is incredible at how unprofessional, inconsiderate and rude the office staff is, including Dr. Doshi. My mother was given an appt the day before her «scheduled» visit by one of the office staff members. This appt was confirmed by another one of office staff members since my mother was seeing a different doctor than the one she had seen before at the same practice 5 years ago (he was out on vacation). The next morning both my parents arrived at the office only to be told her appt was canceled and that the appt should never have been made with a different doctor. Heaven forbid you were ill and your doctor went on vacation in this practice. I then spoke with the office manager who was even worse and rude as compared to the rest of her office staff. The office manager indirectly called me a liar and said the appt was never made to begin with. Somewhere in between, Dr. Doshi was asked if he would see my mom since my parents drove 40 – 45 minutes to this practice but, he declined. My mom had an early 8:15 AM appt. In less than 24 hrs, this 8:15 AM slot got booked and he was all of a sudden busy to see my mom? There were absolutely no apologies for a mistake the office staff made, absolutely no consideration of elderly patients traveling close to an hour to see a clinician and absolutely no manners or respect for patients. I myself am a clinician and will be certain to NEVER refer any of my patients to this practice.

I had never ben to Triangle Gastroenterology before and was not exactly comfortable because I never seen or meet the Dr. I was uncomfortable but the staff was extremely kind and made me feel very comfortable. The nurse was awesome and then I meet Doctor Holt and he was extremely kind. I could not have asked for better service. Thank you Doctor Holt and his staff. Awesome service.

My husband was scheduled for a 1:30 appointment.
12:30 We arrived and signed in
12:45 Completed necessary paper
1:30 Still waiting
2:00 VIP patient comes in and is greeted with a smile, told to come to side window and is promptly told that Dr Holt is running 2 hours behind. I’m like, hey we’ve been waiting for Dr. Holt for over 1.5 hours and no one told us anything.
So I ask some lady (not the lady that checked us in) what was going on because we’ve been waiting a while. She’s like oh, are u with Mr. G and I’m like «yeah». She states I was just about to tell you, it’s going to be a two hour wait and asked would we like to reschedule. Then the other receptionist comes to the front with his fat, short, sloppy, male pattern balding behind. I mean really can we wear a belt and clothes that fit us when we are in a professional setting? Do I really have to stand here and look at your black underwear while you make copies of my insurance and ID cards? I mean GROSS!
Anyway, he states oh I forget to tell them Dr. Holt was running behind. Yeah I know they forgot about us, we are just Medicare patients (non VIP, non-​gift giving patients). You were too busy laughing, cracking jokes, and beating on the desk to inform us. Well by this time my husband gets involved and just can canceled the appointment and we just left. I understand that unforeseen events happen and MD’s run behind; that’s the nature of the business but you have to communicate with your patients/​clients. Now we have to find another GI specialist which could take weeks to be seen, and my husband is the one that has to suffer. Thanks for nothing Triangle Gastroenterology!