Tribeca Skin Center — Local services in New York

Avoid Dr. Sherwin K. Parikh by any means. Here's my experience visiting him.

I had psoriasis on my finger and he prescribed me a cream and told me to schedule another visit 30 days later. I started applying the cream and it started showing promising results within a couple of days! But, after around the 5th day, I noticed a rash all over my body. I went to see my primary doctor because he was right next to my work. He prescribed me another cream for the rash and psoriasis.

When 30 days passed and I came back, I told Dr. Parikh that I had this side effect and I visited my primary doctor to get help. To my surprise, he got very irritated and annoyed after that. He was asking who is my primary doctor and was looking him up online. He was constantly telling me "You are okay, you don't have skin disease!", and asking me "What do you want from me?" with an aggressive tone. I told him that I came because he told me to come the last time I visited him. I also told him that I still have a bit of that rash and my scalp started constantly itching. Finally, I asked him what are the odds that the psoriasis will come back (on my first visit he mentioned that treatment may give temporary results). Then he started shouting things like "I don't know, I can't predict all diseases you may have in the future!". At that moment I realized that this conversation won't get us anywhere and I just wasted my time, mood, energy, and money coming here. I tried to be open and politely told him that he sounds offensive, but he didn't pay attention to that and kept pressing on me.

Now here I am, left with those side effects and with a disgusting experience talking to this person. The worst part is that I was looking forward to talking to him again after my first visit. He was so nice and gave me a lot of sound advice. For instance, he emphasized how important it is to keep a healthy diet and eat non-inflammatory food, and that it is crucial to have less stress in your life (which sounds weird hearing from him after this). I felt like it was a privilege visiting a doctor like this. And now, all that remain are memories about this disgusting experience.

P.S.: The staff there is great, and I feel a bit bad giving 1 star to the whole clinic, but it is what it is. Most of the experience comes from...

They require a $100 non-refundable deposit to hold an appointment (reasonable), but when I showed up to my appointment to find that it had been canceled, they refused to refund the deposit. They had sent me a confirmation text message for the appointment a few mornings ago, so I assumed all was fine. They did attempt to call me to cancel it later that day but I missed the call because I have poor cell reception at work, and they never tried to follow up despite not hearing back from me and still having a few days until the appointment, presumably because they already had my deposit. Since the deposit can only be spent at their offices, I was forced to reschedule my appointment even though I wasn't feeling very happy with my experiences at TSC to date. They also refused to discount my treatment in any way despite the fact that I took time out of my workday and spent a combined 60+min on the subway to go to that appointment that they had canceled.

This was a tipping point for me as prior to this, I had issues with a prescription that Dr. Greenberg wrote for me. I got a message from CVS saying they were contacting the doctor for further information regarding the Rx, and then a few days later they contacted me again to say they never heard back from the doctor. When I messaged the office in the patient portal, they told me they hadn't heard anything from CVS, so I called CVS who then told me they had contacted the office twice asking for prior authorization for the Rx and never heard back. I then called TSC back and they took care of it promptly so I didn't think too much of it, but after this most recent snafu I'm quite disappointed in the office... they show a lack of accountability and poor...

I went there twice due to recommendations from a few people on Reddit whom had gone for skin issues numerous years ago (but with different docs).

The office is clean, tidy, and minimalistically decorated. Staff is polite and respectful. Waiting time to be seen is about about 15 - 30 mins after appointment time.

1st time, the derm listened and checked everything I mentioned out in the 15 minute alloted appointment time he had. Basically was prescribed ointments for everything and sent home. I'd been having issues behind my ear and was told to buy hibiclens to wash with. I find out later, that you actually can not use it around ears (and eyes) because it's ototoxic! I also told him about a mole surfacing near my jaw that's been itchy and irregular - he said it looked like a "bump with some darkening on top"..

2nd time (2 weeks later) I come for a second opinion +was having bothersome effects from the tretinoin I was prescribed. Was basically told it's not tretinoin (even though my skin was hardcore peeling and raw and that it was systematic inflammation probably diet related or hormonal and I should consider going on testosterone blockers or antibiotics.. (without even knowing anything about my health, history, etc. I also showed her the same "bump" and she confirmed it was a mole but having it removed would be considered cosmetic and insurance didn't cover that. An absolute joke and waste of time.

I definitely won't be returning and am beyond underwhelmed with both my experiences and the lack of effort or and knowledge in my issues as well as prescription effects and warnings . And felt the treatment/care is biased,...