I'm not typically the review writing person, but after my experience in this doctors office the other day, I have to say that my situation was completely unfair. I was told by Dr moreno there is "No help for people like you," meaning severely depressed and anxious people.
Heres a little context for you. I went to him after a month of being on medications that left me almost possibly worse off than I was beforehand, and after initially saying my mood had increased on select days, he decided they were working just fine despite a trip to the hospital to get stitches. Immediately after highlighting the experience, he ups my dosage to 20 mgs rather than 10, and proceeds to ask "are you having thoughts of hurting yourself?" When I had clearly just told him the reasoning behind my hospital visit. He ignored me. He set me up with an appointment, and tried to send me off.
I freaked out and went back into the office, I wasn't happy with the care I had received. A small part of the reason being he had refused to sign medical Marijuana sign up papers IN his office based on "never seeing scientific evidence of medical Marijuana being able to help patients with depression and anxiety." He would rather prescribe you 10mg Prozac, and up the dosage, as long as you don't have a set plan to kill yourself. I ALSO tried to sign up for "Bounce Back," a program to help depressed people obtain skills to introduce them back into the work force, and he told me I was "far too depressed", for a program meant to deal with depressed people. Understandable to a certain extent... so i sat in his office begging him for help and for him to listen, to which he replied arrogantly many times, one of which he says "I referred you to a phsichiatrist at west 5th." So I asked for a name, a phone number, a paper, anything to prove he did so. He didn't have it, and retorted with "there is not enough resources in the health system for people like YOU....Maybe you should just go back to the hospital....the best I can do is set you up with a phone councillor (which, he never did after deciding from my episode, that I deserve sysraquil for my sleeping. even though I have been self medicating with Marijuana for years and have tried to get the papers to do it properly.
I asked him before I left if he talks to all of his patients like they're children as though he is on a pedestal, and if anyone else has come at him about requiring better care in the past to which he replied "every day". Is this a patient issue or a doctor issue then?
If you want a doctor who is attentive and cares for your own specific needs as an individual, don't go to Dr. MORENO. I also only signed up with him because my family doctor since birth retired, and Dr Moreno got his patients under the stipulation it would be a family practice ran by him and also his wife, who left the practice not months later.
Basically, in conclusion, he doesn't listen, doesn't care for his patients, won't involve you in the programs and give you medications that truly help, and talks down to those with mental health issues claiming they will never get help. I would love a response from doctor moreno on this review!