Gary S McCarter, DPM

Friendly and knowledgeable. Have seen him maybe 4 times over the past 3 years, never a problem with service or anyone else on the staff. I would definitely recommend his shop to others. Has always taken the time to answer questions and explain things in detail.

Dr. McCarter is exactly the type of doctor who capitalizes on uninformed clients to make a profit. AVOID.
First of all it took me six weeks to get an appointment. Must be a pretty amazing orthopedist, right?
Well I came in with ankle pain and after he evaluated it he went into this long, convoluted explanation about degree of roll and gait and all these other fancy words. Then his solution?
Tape.
He had an assistant come tape up my ankle. When I asked him if he recommend any other course of action like maybe PT, he said if the tape doesn’t make my ankle feel better in two weeks, come back and I could buy one of his customized shoe inserts.
What a scam artist. He was talking about pronation, and of course if he thought that that was the issue, he could’ve recommended I buy any number of high quality shoe inserts on the market, like Superfeet or Powerstep. But then it might’ve worked and made my ankle feel better, whereby I wouldn’t have the opportunity to buy his product.
AVOID.

My experience at Dr. McCarter’s office was one of the best experience I have had while visiting a doctors office. I went in as urgent because I had a very painful ingrown toenail and my primary doctor couldn’t do much to help me. As I arrive to the office the front desk was very professional and helpful.
Im afraid of needles, but Dr. McCarter was very gentle when it came to numbing my toe to remove the ingrown part of my nail, as he had explained to me that would help release the pressure causing my major pain. Doctor is very knowledgable, he answered all my questions and educated me about what maybe causing my problem and ways to fix it for sure.
This is a practice I will be referring to all my friends and family and i will definitely be coming back for further treatments. Everyone at this office are very friendly and professional. The office and the treatment rooms are very clean, a huge plus for a medical office.
Thank you Dr. McCarter for your help and staff for getting me in. It’s only been 2 days since I was there and my toe has never felt this wonderful!

I had Dr. Mc Carter check my painful big toe out when vacationing in Newport Beach. He was great, knew exactly what the problem was and fixed it without any pain. Two thumbs up !!! Thank you for a great job. Would go back again when I’m vacationing again in Newport Beach

I have been a patient of Dr. McCarter’s for over ten years. I visit his office every three months for routine care of my arthritic feet. I have always found Dr. McCarter to be extremely competent, and personable. I especially enjoy seeing his assistant nurse, Anna. She is very compassionate, and complimentary. His office staff always greet me with a smile. Thank you for the many years of wonderful service.

I went to Dr McCarter for treatment of a plantar wart. He looked at it and assessed that it was very tiny, it shouldn’t cause pain and was no big deal. Well, I told him that I had been treated by more than one dermatologist for this little guy for years. He laughed and said all of the dermatologists that fail send the patients to him and he always fixes what they can’t.
Well, when the laser surgery didn’t work he was angry and asked me not to return. No second laser, nothing. Oh, but he did blame the fact that the wart didn’t go away on my choice to wear Keds instead of athletic shoes.
The two stars are for his use of Fluorouracil and efudex, because nobody had offered those drugs before. At least he tried something, and compared to the now four podiatrists I have seen he is very clean.

I had a very different experience compared to the other reviewers. I’ve seen him four or five times since 2004, and thought he was great. He was very helpful, and informative. He was the first Dr. that could actually tell me what was wrong with my foot, and how to correct it. He was friendly, and had adequate time to answer all of my questions.
However, his front desk, billing/​back office staff were beyond incompetent. It’s hard to still go to him based off of this. I would give him 5 stars. But, his staff deserves a 1. Therefore, I averaged it out to a 3.

Very poor bedside manners. When I had questions to ask, he told me he was running late and didn’t have time to answer them. I was never late to any of my appointments, rather early in fact, but he didn’t have time to talk to me… Dr McCarter performed surgery on my foot. Unfortunately, pain persisted for months (over a year, actually) afterward, but, that didn’t seem to bother him at all. It bothered me, though. Apparently, some (pricey) orthotics were going to fix it all… No new X-​rays, no new MRI… Anyway, the orthotics didn’t fix anything. So, after going back again and again and again, and being told pretty much nothing, I decided to stop going and find someone else. Best decision I could take. I will never recommend Dr McCarter to anyone.

This foot doctor is one of the worst in Southern California. He thinks that he is one of the best and has a very non-​caring and arogant attitude you have ever met in a physician. I saw him in 2004 and didn’t like him, however, under my insurance plan there were only two others I could see. I saw them and thought I would try Dr. McCarter once again. It took over a month to get an appt. and then his attitude about doing something about my foot pain was that I should basically live with the pain. I asked him why in 2004 he said that surgery would help my foot pain and now all of a sudden there is nothing he can do. He also said point blank to me: Since I smoked he wouldn’t touch me with a ten foot pole. I looked at him and told him he was the most arrogant physician I have ever seen with in the Greater Newport Physicians IPA and that it was a waste of time for me to have waited a month to see such a jerk.
I would definitely never recommend him and also filed a formal complaint about him with Greater Newport Physicians IPA. Don’t go unless you want to waste your time.