Looking for PCP with evening/weekend hours...

[ksushis.livejournal.com]

Hi all,
I know questions about PCP near Davis are coming up all the time, this time I want to ask if someone knows about doctors who
1) are good
2) have evening/weekend hours
3) are near Davis
4) are female.
I'm looking for a new doctor and so far I tried to schedule an appointment with Dr. Fishman, but unfortunately she herself doesn't hold any evening hours, and the latest her nurse practitioners can do a physical exam is 6.15 (and I can't make it back from work till 6.30 at the earliest).
Looks like Dr. Rachel Berger at Harvard Vineyard has evening/weekend hours but I couldn't find any reviews on her. Is anyone seeing her?
I just started a new job and for a number of reasons to take time off right now to see a doctor would be really hard.
I really appreciate your help. Thanks!!
UPD: How about Debra Bershel?? Anyone saw her?

Comments

[wishful-knicker.livejournal.com]

I used to see her. Very dismissive, cold and judgmental. Hated her.

[sapphira-altair.livejournal.com]

I see Dr. Bershel and I think she's great (as is most of the staff at Davis Sq. Family Practice). Not sure how late they take appts, though.

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

Do you mean Harvard Vanguard?

[phoenixy.livejournal.com]

I go to Davis Square Family Practice and I've never had an appointment with Dr. Bershel but I really like nurse practitioner Marie Botte there. She meets conditions 1, 3, and 4; I don't know what her hours are.

Finding a new doctor is such a pain...

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

The health care system in the US is a joke.

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

My PCP is awesome. I have to go all the way out to BWH, but it's totally worth it. I can email her!

Rachel Berger

[mesh44.livejournal.com]

Rachel Berger has been my doctor and my (lesbian) partner's doctor for about fifteen years and we are totally satisfied with her. She got us through two major health crises with her calm, competent manner. I always find her friendly, and she always remembers me. I would recommend her without qualifications. Before I started seeing Dr. Berger I bounced through several forgettable women doctors at Harvard Community Health Plan and MIT Health Services. I am 60 years old and in excellent health and I greatly appreciate the care I have gotten from Dr. Berger. She never hesitates to send me to any specialists at Harv Vanguard,even for the slightest hypochondriac fear I have (I think every little blemish is cancer.)

[rui]

I'm thirding (fourthing?) the positive reviews for Marie Botte at Davis Square Family Practice. She's caring, compassionate, remembers who I am and how I'm doing, and always listens to me about what I have to say and any concerns I may have. I've never seen Dr. Bershel, but everyone I've encountered in DSFP has been very, very nice.

berger - my 2 cents

[dahdahdahdancer.livejournal.com]

I had a very bad experience with Berger when I was suffering with horrific, relentless shingles pain. (Well, first she misdiagnosed the shingles.) Anyway - after I left 3 phone messages begging for pain relief, she finally called back (days later), angry, and basically blew me off. No help at all. Zip. And she yelled at me besides. I switched docs.

[moireach.livejournal.com]

It's Union, not Davis, but Dr. Susheela Subbarao at Union Square Family Health (part of the Cambridge Health Alliance) is AWESOME; she's definitely the best doctor I've ever had, really good at listening. They have some Saturday hours, too.

Dr. Bershel is great!

[shana-lyons.livejournal.com]

Since you updated to ask about Dr. Bershel, I'll chime in. She's been my PCP for a few years now. She's great with basic stuff but good even when you go to her with something weird. I got burned by coral scuba diving in Mexico 2 months ago and she really worked with me to find something to make the chemical burn go away. She even offered me her cell phone number to call her over the weekend if it wasn't improving. Give her a shot.