For all of you unsatisfied patients, here's my take on "the Gurvits".. she may not be on time (ever) but when she's with you she's extremely helpful. She knows her**** and I trust every sarcastic, hysterical, and wise comment that comes out of her mouth. For those of you who claim she told you that you were overweight, that is most likely because you are; she would only say that if you were 350+ lbs. I have been coming to her for 2 years and the medications I'm on couldn't be more helpful. All of those other nasty comments are horrible and discriminatory. This woman has quite simply saved my life and I would recommend her to anyone who is patient and open-minded. And if you have a problem with the "rude comments" why don't you say something? She will definitely not ignore you. This woman is here to help.

Submitted Dec. 21, 2009

Hours late. Talks about other patients and what she ate for breakfast today. Plan to spend at least 3 hours in her office.

Submitted Jan. 5, 2009

This is one of most unprofessional and unethical doctors I have ever seen. I am very surprised that she still has her license. I don't even know where to start about her behaviour - her rudeness, blabbering about other patiens privileged information, cursing other doctors and most amazingly harrassing patients and their relatives! I do hope that she is getting disqualified.

Submitted Nov. 16, 2008

This doctor was extrememly useless. She made my husband miserable, loaded him on medications that made him worse, belittled him and made his symptoms worse. They are NEVER on time. And have excuses for everything I am reporting this doctor to the state board, as well as every other licensure place I can to try to get her license revoked for breaking confidentiality and hurting so many people mentally. her business is just that to her she doesnt not care about the patient just the next dollar she can make, very rude, and unprofessional, unorganized and just difunctional. as a person in this field of work, she is not knowledgable of anything that she says she only knows how to get a patient to OD and will never answer any question with a straight answer she needs to get her head out of the clouds, and star caring for her patients and doing what her degree and license allow her to do

Submitted Aug. 19, 2008

Quite simply, this woman should have her license revoked. Even some of the positive comments below included references to the extremely unprofessional conduct I witnessed during my time there. Beyond making people wait 1-2 hours to see her, during my time I watched her light up a cigarette during my session, blatantly violate another patient's confidentiality (she told me of the couple that I had just see leave her office: "Their son just committed suicide"), billed me a full session for a 5-minute phone call I made to ask a question about one of my medications and tried to get info from me about another patient of hers who I knew. How this woman is allowed to continue practicing medicine is beyond me.

Submitted May 10, 2008

Dr. Gurvits is a very good psychiatrist and a pleasant person to talk with. She is very knowledgeable in her field (mainly includes medications) and is willing to answer any questions you may have about which medications to take for your issues and what possible side-effects there may be. As others have noted, she is often running late and can be somewhat gruff, but as others have posted she is a PSYCHIATRIST, not a PSYCHOLOGIST. If you want "talking therapy" you should find yourself a PSYCHOLOGIST who's job is to talk with you about your issues and cannot prescribe medications. As far as her demeanor someone was right on when they mentioned her Slavic heritage. This is very common characteristic of Slavic people and is not meant to be mean-spirited. From personal experience, I whole-heartedly recommend Dr. G as a caring, capable doctor. As far as her lateness, she is dealing with patients with very serious issues, so would you rather her rush them or take time to properly treat them.

Submitted April 1, 2008

Iam really suprised to read all the negative reviews! First and foremost, she is a psychiatrist - NOT a psychologist, so it is NOT HER JOB to talk her patients through their problems. Her job is to dispense medication, ONLY. Another problem people seemed to have is with her disposition, which is entirely dictated by her slavic heritage. Her attitude and demeanor is standard for that community. She also made no mention in any of my visits about other patients or her personal life. As I read those complaints it was like people were talking about a different dr! True she is blunt and direct, but certainly not unprofessional. I honestly found her to be warm and human. She does run really late, but I never felt rushed. In responce to the other posts; how foolish those people are to go to a dr. and not anticipate criticism - if you were perfect, you wouldn't need a psychiatrist.

Submitted July 26, 2007

Dr. G was more concerned with making patients wait (sometimes for hours) and talking about herself than actually helping me. She doesn't focus on the root of issues, choosing instead to overprescribe meds. My breaking point came at an appt when she looked me up and down and told me (unsolicited) that I needed to lose weight. This despite the fact that she knows I have a history of eating disorder. Not only rude, but downright reckless and dangerous! She was obviously projecting her own issues about being overweight herself, but still, shouldn't a psychiatrist know better? Go to another doctor, for the sake of your mental and physical health.

Submitted June 3, 2007

Not for nothing...But I came to Irene for help cuz right after the birth of my daughter, i suffered from post partum. for 3 years all she did was medicate me. i dunno who posted it here but they were damn right when they said she knows her meds. she can give you the medication to make you feel all the euphoria of a chinese opium den....but help you solve a problem? HA! help you stop crying? HA! give you the best advice a DOCTOR can? HA!! But she will be very concerned about YOUR weight.. esp. since she lost all of hers. Btw - anyone else notice that she's ALWAYS with a patient but NEVER talks to them? When in her presence, she's either on the phone or getting interrupted by her half twit, half literate immigrant employees. and yes.. she will bill you for each of the imaginary disorders that you have!

Submitted March 23, 2007

Bills for EVERY little thing, a phone call, a script, a missed visit etc, but she is NEVER on time. At least 1-1.5 hrs late on average. Unprofessional on many levels. Doesn't rush when she is with you no matter how many others are waiting but talks about alot of unnecessary things - and doesn't care at all that others are waiting - Must be insecure about her knowledge/background because she brings up a seminar at Harvard she once attended or something similar at every visit to try to impress. Some of her advice is hurtful and not very insightful and dispensed without regard to patient feelings. Not a very comforting dr. Seems to know her pharmacology best and can select Rx's well. That is her strongest asset and maybe her only good point. Don't think she is worht the wait!

Submitted March 1, 2007