Marc A Seftel, MD

I am a young professional athlete in watersports, and had immediate hearing loss and tinitis in my right ear. Dr. Seftel was one of the most attentive doctors I have ever seen. Throughout my experience of trying to figure out why this has happened to me, he would always return my phone calls the same day, and would call me with test results within minutes after they were done. The week of 4^th of July, he went out of his way to get my brain MRI results within a couple hours of the MRI, and called with the results. He is very on top of things, professional, and knowledgeable. I felt safe in his hands, and am happy that my condition does not seem to be anything too serious.

I would like to echo the review from «Atoast C.,»” and strongly dissent from the review submitted by «Maggie R.» Maggie R. doesn’t provide much in the way of details, but it is sad to see folks giving doctors 1-​star reviews – and going so far as to say that they shouldn’t even practice medicine – over what appears to be at best a minor slight.
Myself and both of my sons have been patients of Dr. Seftel for years, and I’ve always found him to be intelligent, attentive, and thorough. He has a great beside manner and he *listens*. In the appointments prior to my sons’ surgeries, at the surgery center, and immediately after the surgeries, his handling of my (rather nervous) children was awesome.
I’ve had Dr. Seftel bend over backwards to handle patient requests and special accommodations. In rebuttal to Maggie R., I can also speak as someone who has had a parent go through years of cancer treatment (and ultimately pass away from it). I can also speak as someone who has seen quite a few doctors in various parts of the country practicing a number of different specialties for a variety of different ailments: Dr. Seftel is one of the good guys.

Excellent experience — and I’m choosy — and I’m writing this because I almost didn’t go see him because of «maggie’s» review!
I wouldn’t hesitate to send anyone to Dr. Seftel. He was attentive, respectful, thorough and generous with his time and information. He took notes throughout our conversation and was willing to discuss alternative approaches to my issues, medical and non-​medical. And he is interested in new allergy therapies that have been in use in Europe for years and only now being allowed in the US. In addition, all the office staff was efficient and courteous. Oh, and Seftel has a good sense of humor. What more can you ask?
FYI: I had with me a timeline (of the last 8 weeks) of the symptoms and related treatments that had ultimately brought me to see him. Perhaps this made a difference as we weren’t wasting one another’s time?

I had a similar experience to Maggie’s about a year ago. Dr. Seftel is a jerk, plain and simple. I did not trust him because he was so rude to me (made fun of my voice when I was in his chair for a consultation, asked condescendingly «So, you were sent here so I could give you permission to get your tonsils out right? So why do you think you should do that?» etc.), to the point that I asked for a second consultation with Dr. Barker. I looooooved Dr. Barker, and scheduled my surgery with him. However, when I showed up for surgery, it was Dr. Seftel! I was so angry and scared to have my surgery with him. After surgery, I bled out three times, and went to Dominican ER. Two weeks after surgery, I was still bleeding, and he re-​cauterized a small area in his office and assumed I hadn’t been taking care of myself and that it was my fault. That night, I bled out AGAIN! I went to the ER and he finally put me back under to take a full look at my tonsil bed. As it turns out, he did not cauterize a spot in the back from my original surgery, and that area was not healing at all. Since it was 2 weeks after surgery (supposed to be full recovery time), my insurance refused to pay for all of these post-​op emergency visits and I was billed in full by his office (for re-​cauterizing an area that did not need help), and Dominican ER.
Trust your instincts with this doctor; bad bedside manner = lack of caring for patients = dangerous hands for surgery.

I have always found Dr Seftel to be thorough, professional, patient and knowledgeable.

after months of suffering with sinus problems, i was finally referred to the sinus center. Dr. Seftel was the first to have an opening, so i took it. I can see why some people would find him terse, as he does seem very focused on the task at hand — solving the medical issue — but he was very thorough, asked a lot of questions, and had a good plan for attacking my sinus issues. if you want a superfriendly doctor this might not be the guy, but so far, he seems like he just might be excellent at his job, and that’s what i want from a sinus guy.

I like him. He was honest and thoughtful about my diagnosis. Took a lot of time with me even though he was really, really busy. Asked a lot of questions and gave me choices. I’ll definitely return to him if I need to.

I just had the worst experience with this doctor. Unfortunately he was covering for my doctor, Dr. Barker, who is great. Every time he asked me a question, Dr. Seftel interrupted and belittled me. I have never bee treated with such disrespect. I have had a lot of experiences with doctors, as I cared for my mother who went through years of cancer treatment and surgeries. I have never met a doctor as bad as this Dr. Seftel. I highly recommend anyone avoiding this guy. He should not be practicing medicine. I do highly recommend Dr. Barker, one of his associates. He is always very timely, patient, and highly skilled as a surgeon.

not helpful in the least, Dr. Seftel (a man in his forties) would interrupt me anytime I attempted to tell him about symptoms, ask questions, or respond to one of his. He would just interrupt over what I was saying with, «Yeah. U-​huh. Yeah. Weeelllllllllllll,» and then just say the exact same thing he said throughout the entire appointment, which was that i have «options». no shit. one that i shouldn’t have exercised was coming here. Definitely go see somebody else.