Paul Maddux, MD

I felt completely invisible. I believe he had me mixed up with another patient. When I asked the staff about it, they were very rude. The notes in my chart were incorrect and my ECG was poor quality. He ordered a pharmacological stress test which was totally unnecessary. This is life and death, I expected more. Being older doesn't make me unimportant.

Doctor Maddox has taken care of me and other members of my family for years. I have complete confidence in him and I would recommend him to everyone.He is a person that you can talk to and you can understand.

I can in scared and unsure. To me my diagnosis is a death sentence. I am thankful to have Dr. Maddux as my heart specialist. He answered my questions and removed my fears. He even offer advice regarding my life insurance. I highly recommend Dr. Maddux to anyone looking for a heart specialist.

The office staff was extremely courteous and very efficient The nurse was efficient covering all areas of my care Dr Maddox was exceptionally efficient I would recommend him to anybody.

I saw Dr. Maddux in Feb 2024. His staff was wonderful. They were caring and understanding. Dr. Maddux, however, was unhelpful. I have a rare connective tissue disorder that I was in the process of getting diagnosed at the time (it has since been formally diagnosed by a geneticist), but he clearly didn't believe me, nor did he know anything about the disorder beyond the name and a one off case he heard in medical school. That is forgivable, since yes, it's rare and he's a cardiologist. However, I do have an increasingly more common condition caused by the connective tissue disorder that is completely in his wheelhouse of diagnosing. Still, I, unfortunately, had to get the problem diagnosed and managed by a different cardiologist because Dr. Maddux didn't believe in its existence. Yes, POTS is real. It's a physical condition of the autonomic nervous system. While it is more in the area of expertise of an electrophysiologist, a cardiologist can diagnose it or at least refer the patient to an electrophysiologist, which Piedmont has. Instead, Dr. Maddux weighed very heavily on his "concern" for my mental health in his notes (which were full of misinformation making it clear he wasn't fully paying attention to a word I said) and further perpetuated my frustration with the medical industry entirely. In addition, his notes professionally included a tone hinting at his disdain for "Googlers." I wouldn't have to do medical research if doctors like him did their job. It's not like I'm on WebMD. I'm looking at medical research from the NIH. He quite obviously plays into the "anxious female" trope if you're young and don't have a heart condition he believes in. He did offer to do a slew of tests to check the structural integrity of my heart which I went along with until I had the displeasure of reading his notes. If he cared, the tests could've shown the increase in heart rate. However, it was clear to me from his notes that he wouldn't be paying attention to that. I went to Wellstar (MCG) to get treatment, and the doctors there explained that Piedmont as a whole doesn't diagnose or treat POTS, so if that is your concern, avoid Dr Maddux and Piedmont entirely. They are unhelpful. Otherwise, if you have a "real" heart condition (that isn't mitral valve prolapse because that's another condition Dr. Maddux doesn't believe in), looking at the rest of the reviews, it seems he might help you.