Martinez Daniel B, MD

Worst doctor ever! First of all…
I went there because of shoulder pain which was going on for over a month. He just blew it off and said I pulled it, then he perscribed me some medicine. They know whaty occupation is, I am a waitress so I’m always working. He gave me mess that basically had me stoned all day and said I needed to take it three times a day. Finally when the pain didn’t go away I saw an orthopedic surgeon and he was perplexed why dr Martinez had given me those pills.
Secondly, I just got a bill from the office. I visited on December and it’s June and I was just billed. Everytime I go they Lwayz ask me what medicnes I am on and I always tell the I am on birth control. Ony bill the diagnosis was shoulder injury (duh) but then a pregnancy test? WTF? I know they take pee samples every time u go but how do they run a test that I didn’t autherize?
This place is a dump that rips u off! Beware and don’t go here!

Where did this guy get his education? Unethical Doctors University? If he did, I’m sure he graduated at the very top of his class. Unfortunately, I wasn’t a Unilocal user before I made an appointment with him and had to find out the hard way just how sucky he really is.
I went to his San Jose office for my first appointment. I had a hard time finding it and drove past it a few times before I realized it was a sketchy looking unmarked house. It wasn’t until I was on the porch that I saw his name by the front door. It seemed so ghetto and I thought about being a no show for my appointment, but I figured I was already there and I really needed an Rx for my pills. So I put my brave face on and walked in.
It was just as ghetto inside. The furniture was super old, the carpet was nasty, and the area behind the receptionist was so disorganized. And the receptionist wasn’t cheerful at all. It seemed like she hated her job. Scratch that. It seemed like she hated her life.
Anyway, I filled out some forms and then she grabbed a Polaroid camera and said she needed to take a picture of me. Huh??? She explained that Dr Martinez takes pictures every patient for their files. I thought it was odd, but went ahead with it and then she led me to the exam room.
The room looked like something I would expect to see at a free clinic. Everything was so outdated. I sat there trying to figure out how this MD became an approved Blue Cross network provider. Finally, I met him. He was dressed professionally, but didn’t seem very medically intelligent. Thank god he knew how to write a prescription.
After a few more appointments it became crystal clear to me that his number one goal is to do anything he can to make a quick buck. Like cherie g., I was asked to come to the office to discuss lab results. I paid a co-​payment of $ 25 to sit there and have him tell me that my labs were great. He also wrote a prescription for measly 6 months worth of pills so I’d have to make another appointment (and write him another $ 25 check) to see him once I ran out. Every other gyn I’ve been to will give you a 1 year supply. Please trust your fellow Unilocalers and stay away for your own good.

I too had a bad experience with this particular doctor. I went seeking GYN, but was told at the office (not on the phone when I made the appt) that he doesn’t want to really do this kind of work anymore, so I agreed to see him that day as a family doctor.
I always consider the first visit sort of an informal interview to see if it’s going to be a good fit, so I let him know I want a doctor that is on board with supporting me through trying to lose weight, healthily of course, but that’s why it’s a long –term goal and part of a long –term relationship.
He basically got overly concerned and reacted by making me feel ‘wrong’ for wanting to lose weight and ‘prescribed’ a book about learning how to love myself.
In point of fact, my desire to avoid the kinds of health problems that other women in my family have suffered by losing weight and maintaining a healthy lifestyle IS loving myself.
Also, for anyone who cares about record-​keeping (and maybe saving our forests) they don’t seem to have a very good system, one that fails to rely on email or internet or software whatsoever. The appearance of their ‘back office’ as seen through the window of the front desk is that the organization of files is haphazard and chaotic.
The referral Dr. Martinez’s office ended up giving me to get a GYN exam was to a similarly structured office in which the nurse who I almost made an appointment with said ‘Email? Oh, honey, we don’t use any such modern things like email’.
I don’t expect a lot, I think, going by the standards of other doctors’ offices I’ve visited in the past ten years. What I DO expect is to clearly represent themselves, to make patients feel empowered and to not screw up my files.
So…if your values are line with that, I’d pass on this doctor’s office.

This doctor’s office is horrible. The receptionists are extremely unfriendly and their work area is really messy and disorganized. As the previous reviewer noted, the office is super run-​down which makes me worry a bit about the sanitary practices at this facility. After my first appointment they wanted to schedule a «follow up» to «discuss results». No doctor ever has required a follow up for the simple procedure I had done. They were trying to get me to pay for another visit.
Most recently, I was trying to ask him for Malaria meds for my trip to South America, and its standard practice to ask your doctor to phone the meds in. After getting a rude «No» from the receptionist, I called back to speak to the doctor himself. It was clear he had no idea what to prescribe or how to prescribe this fairly common Malaria drug. I gave him the exact dosage and drug information which a friend of mine (a doctor) had given me. After refusing to call it in to the pharmacy, and being asked 20 questions of where I was planning to go, they finally agreed to administer this drug. Lame.
Do not go to this guy.

Not helpful or very savvy at this family practice. It’s like pulling teeth to get your Rx verified (simple stuff like allegra) through your insurance provider. Also, the office is very worn down, unfriendly, and they spend 5′ with you. I think these people need to take a customer service seminar!
And the most important, the health care they provide, very bare bones and they really didn’t seem to care about their patients.