Patient
Found Dr. Desa in 2007 when I was admitted to Community Hospital E.R. for soaring blood pressure. Prior to meeting Dr. D, I'd had other cardiologists who were very perfunctory and impersonal, or just reviewed charts prepared by their P.A.'s who saw their patients and dispensed pills, and assumed one didn't have a brain. In one case, I decided I'd be better off with a veterinarian! Dr. Desa is so different from the usual impersonal cardio-office. Dr. Desa takes time for and really listens to every individual patient -- and remembers what you told him, even about your personal and/or family life. If you're having trouble with a medication, or symptom, he listens. He also sees all his patients himself, not through a p/a or nurse-practitioner. He feels like a friend, and because he cares, it shows in his professional practice and procedures. Dr. Desa has shown me that cardiologists do have hearts of their own, after all!