I am a patient of Dr. Zashin. I was in excruciating pain for the last 4-5 years – it became unbearable. After job losses, many dollars in MD bills, being humiliated by providers, I felt like I had been brought out of a torrential storm with no end in sight. Dr Zashin was patient, kind, understanding and human. I cried the first year in his office because I could not believe how he began this aggressive workup to find out the problem. The problem was I had RA, fibromyalgia and finally someone who did not regard how much pain and disabling things were. At every visit he listened, he was encouraging, he was a compassionate human being as well as a scientist. Many times I felt guilty for not being a great patient, but he was so reassuring and understanding that pain turns us into people that we don’t recognize. All of his staff shared the same incredible values (kindness, expertise, flexibility, understanding of pain in the human condition). Dr. Zashin is the best teacher that one could hope for and all of his staff are strong supporting cast. One feels renewed and hopeful when in their care. Just when I thought that my life would be riddled with pain and dysfunction and continuous humiliation, I found great medical, nursing and office care and I believed that my health would get better with good management. As I write this review I am reminded of the poor medical care I had once upon a time and the excellent care I have, and this becomes a testimony about not giving in to despair when you are ill, but keep trying to find someone to address your medical care even if it is 5 years and 34+ doctors that you leave behind. Thank you to this practice that my life is being restored everyday. I do believe that good medicine like Dr. Welby is still being practiced.
