Dr. Barry Gest, MD

He was absolutely the WORST “physician “ I have ever met. I myself, am a doctor and went to the ER for severe lower back pain and he completely “dismissed “ me. He said he could give me something for pain ( narcotic”. I flat refused. I just wanted to treat the cause of my pain, which he seemed to not even care or want to find out. He is TERRIBLE!!!!!

He was hateful and questioned why I was here wanting an echo and bloodwork due to extreme fatigue, weakness, short of breath, headaches. I am a cardiac patient. I couldn’t get into my cardiologist for a month. I wanted to make sure my heart function hadn’t gone down since it had in the past and then I had a coronary artery dissection. He acted like I was stupid! He acted like I shouldn’t have came to the ER. He told me they couldn’t do an echo in the ER. This was after 3 hours of waiting in a room. They took tubes of blood, but nothing was ordered until he came in 3 hours later. He is a poor excuse for a doctor and should retire, or better yet be fired! I’d give him 0 stars if that was an option. I grabbed his badge and ask his name. I raised my voice and was ready to walk out. I’m very disappointed in this visit. We drove 45 minutes to come to Deaconess Newburgh, because I don’t like our one hospital in our town. Never again! Still waiting on bloodwork.

Dr Gest gave caring a long time ago and you can tell.

I was recently treated by Dr Guest in a local ER due to having Covid. It took him over 2 hours to even come to my room and his initial statement was “so you have Covid and waiting 8 days for treatment? What do you want me to do?” I explained I had a tell health appointment and was told to come to the ER for shortness of breath. He told me my O2 SAT’s were fine and I just needed to “quit huffing and puffing” and there were “real sick people that could be using the ER room rather than me taking up their time. I was finally discharged with a steroid and antibiotic to clear up possible inflammation of the lining of my lungs and he did suggest they could look for a possible blood clot due to the Covid but I declined after being treated so rudely not only from Dr Guest but all of the staff at the ER with multiple comments of me being in there while having Covid. I told my husband to take me home and I would just take my chances. I have never been treated so rude while needing care.

He had the worse bedside manner I’ve ever witnessed. My husband was very sick and my husband never complains but after a couple of days of vomiting, diarrhea, and on the third day he had severe abdominal pains with bloody stools and then they became almost black. This doctor did a rectal exam then in a very sarcastic way, he held up his finger and said looks brown to me and wanted to send my husband home without finding out why he was so sick. I demanded another physician then, I filed a complaint with Deaconess and our insurance provider who also filed a complaint on his behalf. My husband finally got a good doctor and a diagnosis. He had campylobacter and this jerk was so hateful, sarcastic, and rude my husband just wanted to go home. After I demanded another doctor and told him to get out, he tried talking to us again. I was done with him. He needs to get in another line of business, away from people.

I also filed a complaint to Deaconess Hosp. on Dr. Gest. He not only displays poor bedside manner, but poor treatment in the emergency room causing hosp. of a family member for several days. Terrible experience in the emergency room

Poor beside manner. I filed a complaint on this this Doctor with Deaconess. I was told it was taken care of but they would not tell me what actions were taken