Florida Advanced Pulmonary, P.A.

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When you call other pulmonologists for a new patient intake and it is a 3-4 week wait to get in, and then you call Sullivan's office and it is only a 3-4 day wait to get in, that should have been my first clue. I didn't pay attention to that red flag and should have. He seemed strange to me at my first appointment, but I overlooked it. After a number of visits it came to light that he is a quack. If you want a misdiagnosis, then go to this doctor. In looking back with hindsight, when you pull up to his office it is a dump. When you are with him during an appointment, he is strange, doesn't make eye contact, his bedside manner is bad, his people skills are non existent, and rather than looking at you when he talks he is looking off towards the wall or ceiling. I would dare say that if you mentioned his name among respected and proven professionals in his field, they would more than likely not have anything good to say about Dr. Sullivan. Again in hindsight, looking back at his missed diagnosis it is more obvious to me now than ever before that the biggest mistake I made was being inpatient to get an appointment with him rather than waiting to see a respected and professional pulmonologist.

Dr Sullivan was TERRIBLE!!!! I have a particular prescription drug benefit plan and asked him to write the script so that I could use my mail in plan. He refused saying that he didn't want to have to deal with follow up paperwork from my mail in drug provider. When I left my appointment I got on the phone and called my drug provider and they said Dr. Sullivan would only need to list the medication he wanted me to have and write DAW on the prescription and it would be filled as he wished. DAW = dispense as written. I knew what my drug plan was and knew that he could write the script so that it would be filled with what he wanted me to have rather than with a generic which he didn't want me to have. The cost for the inhaler he prescribed was $40 for 1 inhaler each time I would have it filled at the local pharmacy. The inhaler he prescribed was $80 for 4 inhalers each time I would have it filled through my mail order drug plan. When I went back into his office, Teresa (receptionist) heard me talking on the speaker phone to my drug plan and heard what they told me that Dr. Sullivan needed to write on my prescription. Dr. Sullivan opened the door slightly and said "I am not rewriting the prescription", then preceded to close the door and that was that. I was shocked and asked Teresa what I was missing. So because Dr. Sullivan refused to write the inhaler he wanted me to have on the prescription along with DAW, I was forced to have the prescription either filled locally costing me $40 per inhaler rather than $20 per inhaler if I could use my drug prescription benefit plan. GO FIGURE!!!! A couple of strokes of his pen and Dr. Sullivan could have done what he should have done. SHAME ON YOU DR. SULLIVAN!!!! The way that you treated me was terrible!!!! I was not a difficult patient and followed your diagnosis ... there was NO reason whatsoever for you to treat me as you did!!!!!! Again, SHAME ON YOU!!!!!! Teresa and the other staff was great ... I have absolutely no issue with them. This is all on Dr. Sullivan.