Jan Thomas F Do, Massapequa NY

Dr Jan was not fair with me. I had seen him only a few times. I normally saw Dr John Thoriez. I saw another PA an African American woman. She abruptly quit also. He had offensive cartoon material on the cabinet near where the patients sit. It was disparaging toward women. I feared him. I do not recommend this Dr for women.

Don't go! See somebody else.save yourself the pain. All he wants to do is refer you to the rehab center that he is the assistant medical director at which is a great program but will not stand behind you if Dr Jan doesn't. I now feel free that I no longer have him as a doctor my anxiety was always through the roof every time I had to go see him. God forbid they call you for a random drug test when I had to go to a wedding that I was in the wedding party for he almost dropped me as a patient after 2 weeks

"I would recommend Dr Jan to anyone suffering from the same condition I was. He is a consummate professional and my results were exactly as he said they would be. "
He is my only doctor I can trust since 2008. Even if I need to see any other doctor's to get additional help, I will make sure to discuss and trust his knowledge

Doctor is rude. Does not listen to his patients. Prescribed medication that made his patient violently sick when his patient called to express this concern Dr Jan told him to just take another pill and deal with it. Patient wound up in hospital because of adverse reaction to medication. Patient stated he was not going to continue medication Dr. Jan tried to force patient to continue taking the medication.

Terrible, rude, unprofessional when he was dealing with my pain stricken husband stay away from this bully.

The most phenomenal and caring and HONEST doctor I have met. No beating around the bush with him, he studies your medical needs COMPLETEY before treatment and prescription is appropriate and precise. You go against his treatment and do any illegal drugs during treatment he will dismiss you as a patient. He is simply patient centered and cares deeply for your recovery. No one is better

Dr Jan is extremely knowledgeable, his years of experience are quite evident in the knowledge he openly shares. He assesses and answers all questions with precision, and has a straight forward demeanor and good sense of humor. I respect a professional as knowledgeable as him. If you are hesitant to make an appointment due to the offcolor reviews here, I suggest you think for yourself and give him a shot. The desk staff at Massapequa pain management is super sweet, and have never been rude to me in the many months I have been visiting the practice.

Wish I could give lower. Long story short. Dont trust any doctor there. Will lie to your face. Saw my regular doctor after seeing dr Jan's office. He called and confirmed what I was told and couldn't believe they would do that to a patient. To lie willingly and knowingly.

I think D. O. Jan is an awful doctor! Go find someone with real credentials. Being a nurse for 46 years, I can tell a good doc from a bad one. I would NEVER patronize his practice ever!

I find this quite hypocritical and comical at bes that Dr. Jan is on all these opiate boards and a "go to" guy in regards. He actually tried making me dependent on opiates. I have been in pain management for a long time due to a back and double knee injury that required surgeries. I had switched insurances and my pain doc told me he didn't take my insurance, so I was referred to Dr. Jan. My primary care doctor whom I've known for years was giving me pain meds when needed, so I wasn't seeking meds from dr. Jan, I wanted epidural and knee injections. My first visit I was urine tested, no problem then I asked about the injections, I wanted them as soon as possible. He recommended taking some medication first, put me on 15mg avinza, came back 2 weeks, urine tested, told him they didn't work, he upped it to 30mg for a few weeks. Next visit, urine test, told him they didn't work and I needed to take the pain meds one night that my primary had given me prior to ever seeing him and he went crazy, told me to never do that again. I said I have a lot of pain, I need something that works or get me the injections. He then said he would give me norco for break through pain but only after trying opana 15mg first. After two more weeks of escalating pain, I came in, again urine tested. I told him the opana didn't work so he again raised it to 30mg and said come back in two weeks, still nothing for break through pain. Now, being there about three months in total, went back for a visit, urine tested yet again, told him to stop giving me the garbage medication and I only want the injections, no more trying different meds. He then tells me, " oh, I don't do those injections, I would have to refer you to another doctor "I looked at him and he could tell I was annoyed and I just left. A week later, I was packing my car and family to leave on a family vacation, when I received a phone call from one of his staff who said I need to come in to the office for a urine test. After laughing for a couple minutes, I said I'm leaving for a family vacation, he said" just stop in they can wait in the car. " I said, "don't think so" I found a new normal doctor. They kept calling me and tried serving me with some type of papers but I never answered the door and after a couple weeks they stopped. After that I went into their office and asked for my films and records and the girl up front made me.sign for them and said they needed to be brought back. I said that they were my records and I am keeping them as I walked out. Absolutely insane experience. I can see if I was some guy off the street claiming I needed meds because my back hurt but I had a box full of legitimate injuries and surgeries to verify. Stay away.

I went in for medication management and left feeling less than scum.

History: spinal stenosis in lumbar and cervical regions impinging on my central canal.

But that’s not what he looked at.

He was suspect of me the instant he saw me. I went in specifically to end my dependancy on opiates (pills, specifically). He didn’t believe me when I told him I was incredibly afraid of needles and he asked to see my arms for tract marks.clean. He was still suspect and wanted to see up my nose as if I was snorting them. Again, clean.

At this point because I wasn’t one of his ‘usual’ medication management patients, he didn’t believe me. He spoke to me incredibly condescendly like I was lying to him so he requested me to bring my husband into my next appointment.

At my next appt the first words out of his mouth were not to me, but to my husband. He said with clear and concise words “your wife is cheating on you with pills”. What will that was left of me to try and recover from something I barely had any knowledge on, had seeped from me. I felt belittled. I felt like a failure, I felt less than human. Again, I wanted to come off the meds to start anew. And in that instant I wanted to run into traffic on Sunrise Hwy.

I left his office in tears both times I had been there. I followed his regime he prescribed. And then was called in for a random drug test while away on vacation. As hard as they tried, I refused to end my vacation early for it.

After my urinalisys returned from my random drug test, he practically screamed at me for having a drink during the holidays. Not 5 drinks, not 3, just one. I guess he put me on some list for his office to watch me closely, but by this time I decided he was not the doctor who would help me reach my goal.

Instead of transferring one dependancy on opiates to another, I decided I was not going to wait 6 months before being taken off the meds.

I took it upon myself to slowly ween myself off of his prescription. So for 2 months I went along with his ‘plan’, but every week I’d cut my meds in half. And at the end of those 2 months I went in for my UA test and got called back into his office to be reprimanded for not having opiates in my system. I successfully stopped using opiates, and it did not take 6 months.

If I could accurately describe the look on his face when he saw I wasn’t following his orders, it would make some of those who had horrible experiences with him, smile.

He tried to reprimand me, but I just sat in his office with the biggest smuggest grin I could muster.

He may be a wonderful doctor for those who refuse to quit opiates, but I was not one of them. That smug grin and his anger was what brought me back from the brink of just saying ‘eff it all’.

I would never recommend him to anyone and seeing his health grades fall brings me joy.

This was my experience, something I would never wish upon anyone. And if I could give 0 stars, I would.