Amanda Harris, MD Urban Family Doctor, PLLC — Local services in New York

It’s been a couple of months since my appointment with dr. Harris and I am still struggling to reconcile just how awful, negligent, dismissive, incompetent and overall ridiculous my visit was. I came for an annual checkup with some distinct, new-to-me GI concerns. This doctor didn’t even take my blood. She took down my history, found labs from TWO years ago in the system (from my previous GP), said she “bets nothing has changed” (!), showed me a website about IBS and sent me on my way. This does not a physical make.

Obviously I went to a different doctor immediately because I found Harris’ blasé approach preposterous and frankly, dangerous. It turns out I have a very common but difficult to get rid of bacteria h. pylori, which wreaks havoc on one’s GI tract. Undetected and untreated it causes stomach ulcers and potentially stomach cancer. I am also severely deficient in vitamin B12 due to the bacteria — something dr. Harris would have seen, had she done the bare minimum of taking my labs.

If you value your health at all, do not come to this practice.

Additionally, she told me that the fact that my obgyn gives me yearly PAPs is “a waste of money”, so that really spoke to me about her values and where her concerns lie.

I don’t believe that this physician should be practicing (or pretending to practice) medicine at all and I have contacted my insurance to tell...

The only reason I went to Dr. Harris for over a year is because she is within walking distance of my apartment.

After today I will be finding another practitioner.

I’ve left every Dr. Harris appointment feeling my health concerns were not taken serious or feeling judged. I made the huge mistake of telling Dr. Harris about my mental health struggles at a difficult time over a year ago. Since then, it does not matter the reason I am visiting her, Dr. Harris will find a way to bring up, or associate whatever I’m experiencing with my mental health. But not in a helpful way, more in a stigmatizing judgemental way. I went in today with several symptoms of the flu and after glancing at my chart Dr. Harris tried to put my extreme fatigue on my mental health.

I understand the type of institution Dr. Harris previously worked at may have shaped her demeanor as a practitioner. But I think it’s time she seriously reexamines her approach to patients. Currently there are too many negative attributes I don’t want associated with someone charged with my addressing health.

UPDATE 2024 I stand by this review. I will also add after leaving Dr. Harris, I received actual care and found out I have an autoimmune disorder, this was the reason for my fatigue. Regardless of how “difficult” that time was, care was lacking. Hopefully Dr. Harris has done the work...

My experience with Dr. Harris is amazinggggg, she always make me feel as a VIP even when I went to her first at Kings County hospital, and then I learn she had her own practice without even mentioning it, she was shock I found her and switch all my information from kings county to her own practice. She’s even great with my mother, we have no complaints. Dr. Harris care, and she is big on the natural way instead of taking medicine all the time. She had help me with many health issue and concern. Best Dr I ever had, who actually communicate and listen.

Thank you Dr....