Silberman Ricci

I have been seeing Ricci Silberman for my medical issues for several years and I can not believe the negative reviews I read here. Ricci is a fantastic PA (and she does work under a doctor). She has always been super professional and super sharp. No matter what medical issue I have seen her for, she is always on top of things, full of great medical info and advice and she has always dealt with whatever my health problem is thoroughly and to my satisfaction, always taking her time with me and making me feel comfortable and giving me the best healthcare I could ask for, and if I need to see a specialist, she always sends me to other great medical experts. Once more, I find Ricci to be warm and caring. In fact, she makes me feel like she truly cares about my well-​being and that’s because I believe she really does care about all of her patients. I should also mention that her staff are also very warm and professional and I love the Cushing Street building itself, a very relaxed and friendly environment. Lastly I want to mention that my partner and two of my friends also see Ricci and they love her just as much as I do.

My first visit with her was the ‘get established with the doc’ kind of appointment. She seemed very stressed and in a huge hurry, but I figured in that profession that’s bound to happen some days so I blew it off. I believe she is a PA not working directly under a physician (I may be wrong on that) and she said she could not do my pain medication. That presented a problem for me, but at least I knew. AZ is very different in health care provider laws than where I came from.
At my second visit she still seemed highly tense. When I said I thought I was getting another bout of shingles she started an exam and was telling me shingles don’t go away by themselves and other facts about shingles when it hit me what else it could be. So I started to tell her, she froze in her tracks, looked at me as if to bore a hole through my forehead, turned and walked out of the room leaving the door behind her swinging open.
Um. What the heck? Did she suddenly have to use the restroom? I don’t know. She may know her stuff, I don’t know. What I do know is I certainly don’t like her style, and she has a lousy bedside manor.