Atamdede Fikret

My experience with Dr. Atamdede and his staff has been an exceptional one. To begin, Dr. Atamdede is a warm, personable man and a very knowledgable surgeon. (You don’t always find this combination in a surgeon.)
Yes, I waited an hour past my appt. time to see him, but I planned for it, and he was well worth the wait. He did not rush me while answering every question I had on my long list. He expressed a wonderful bedside manner while listening to my concerns. He was very gentle during my exam and left me feeling confident that he could treat my issue.
After my meeting with the surgeon, I was escorted to his operation schedulers office, Maritza, who was also very personable and helpful. She was able to schedule me for the exact day And time I requested so my OBGYN could assist with the surgery. Amazing! Lastly, before I left my pre-​op appt., I was given a follow up post surgical appt., which I found to be streamlined and efficient.
My surgery started on time — and the Dr. was again very warm and reassuring before I was taken into the OR.
The Dr. visited me while I was in the hospital and he even called me back when I had a question about my incision. Wow! I’ve healed quickly and with no complications.
I was treated with 5 star service and respect, which is why I am giving this surgeon a 5 star review.

Words cannot describe how happy I am with Dr. Fikret Atamdede. Before finally finding him, I went through 4 horrible doctors that frankly have no business being in the medical field, 100’s of calls to Medi-​cal phone agents that were completely incompetent in renewing my insurance that got cancelled for absolutely no reason. I was told at the very beginning that surgery was urgent yet it took over a year to get reinstated. Needless to say I was terrified sitting in Dr. Atamdede’s office my first visit… until he walked in, warmly smiled, sat down and proceeded to tell me why I was there. That fact that he had already read my chart and knew everything on there and everything that had happened up till then with me brought tears of relief to my eyes. He is very warm and kind and spent as much time with me as (I) needed, answering all my questions happily and thoroughly. The surgery went perfectly and I am healing very quickly. I could not have asked for a better doctor!!!

Best doctor ever. Dr Atamdede and his partner Dr Mirhasehmi are true stars, Valued by medical community and patients. Dr Atamdede was my doctor and I could not beeing more happier with his surgery outcome. They both share superb surgical skills and tremendows professional experience. They have extensive traing in gynecoological oncology and are called upon in the most difficule cases
They are the doctors other docotrs go to for medical care

My sister and I took our 96 year old Mother to see Dr. Atamdede, as referred by her primary care doctor.
We endured the long wait, in hopes of getting Mom some pain relief and a diagnosis for excruciating abdominal and back pain that has persisted for two years.
We advised him that she doesn’t do well on certain narcotics. But he gave her a prescription for something that turned out to be the same thing, with a different name.
Since he is the «expert,» we gave her the pills. She got terribly nauseous after about 5 days, and her blood pressure, which had been controlled, went up over 200!
When we returned to find out what her blood tests revealed, he didn’t want to hear about her reaction to his prescription.
So after she complained, he handed her the results of her test, and very coldly, lowered the boom on our poor, fragile, very elderly Mother and us, with all the grace of an executioner.
He informed her/​us that her cancer markers are extremely high, and basically, she’s probably too old to withstand the surgery/​chemo. for ovarian cancer.
It was devastating news, delivered as if he was telling us that gas had gone up another 8 cents this week.
In fact, after our long wait, he came in the room sort of laughing, and so I thought the news was going to be good!
Our Mother was deeply effected by the news. But also, his lack of empathy, and so are we.
I don’t care if he’s the best surgeon in the world.
This doctor needs to learn compassion.
What a terrible experience we had.

I like Dr. Atamdede. In fact I credit him for helping me on a complex issue that no other doctor could.
I have not had problems with the staff, but scheduling is very hard. There is a good 6+ week wait for an appointment. Also, a couple times I have had my appointment cancelled (due to emergency surgery doc was called into — so totally understand), but staff did nothing to reschedule me quickly. I was rescheduled several weeks out even though cancellation was no fault of my own.
Regardless, I will continue to see Dr. Atamdede and feel fortunate to have found him and his wealth of knowledge.

I went to this Dr’s office for a consultation/​second opinion after seeing his reviews on an online forum. I waited over an hour and was seen for approximately 4 minutes. Literally. Dr Atamdede did no examination and I basically said «I was told this» and he said «yep sounds good». I walked out and received a bill for almost $ 200. Obviously for something that was a 4 minute long conversation I was extremely upset. When i called their billing department and explained that I felt I was over charged for my level service, and had never been charged this much for a 4 minute consultation where I was not examined, tested, or even helped with information in any way, the woman LAUGHED at me. I’m not kidding.
I am disgusted with the level of service I received from the Dr’s office as well as the billing department. I have never been laughed at in my life from someone in a professional capacity when seeking help.
Oh, and after laughing at me the woman on the phone informed me that they feel I was charged appropriately for my level of service.
If you have a ton of money to waste for nothing and a lot of time to wait, this is certainly the place to go.
Thanks for the degrading telephone conversation and the $ 50 per minute in office conversation.

This dr is very good, but his office staff makes it awful. Twice already, they have messed up my appointment times and scheduling. You have to wait over a month for them to reschedule you to see the dr. This is such an inconvenience. The staff is so stupid and according to them call in if ur conditioned worsens. How do u know if ur condition worsens if u Can’t see the doctor on ur scheduled time and date?