This guy is nothing but a drug pusher. Even the pharmacist stated that he over prescribes meds to his patients. He thinks he knows more about his patient than the patient knows about himself. He does not listen to his patients at all. I have told him about the medications that have helped me in the past but he wants nothing to do with them. I would not recommend him to anyone.

Submitted April 27, 2021

Initially I liked him. Red flags everywhere however. I have had depression and anxiety for 20 years. Had detailed notes, past experiences with medications, troubleshooting info. He wanted none of it and instantly prescribed me a cocktail of three meds. I will say they did work about 70% for five or so years. Over this time I talked to other people who were his patients, who I knew well, and realised they were prescribed virtually the same thing. All "new" and non generic. "New ones are better with less side effects" he would say. Well, after a while, my symptoms came back. He said "get some sun"; no doc, this isn't SAD or a vitamin D deficiency. This is more. Also said "there is nothing else we can do", meanwhile there are hundreds of meds out there. But I listened. Two months later I was really crashing. Called his office to bump up my appointment. Was told by receptionists (who were great the whole time) that he would call me back. Never heard from him. So he never heard back from me. The man has a background in clinical research. He is not a psychiatrist, he is a yes man for big pharma's latest maybe-it-will-work "medicine". Ive since done my own research extensively, and so much of what he told me was wrong , like, laughably wrong. The kawartha lakes deserves better. Im sure Gulati is a great scientist and knowledgable in certain regards, but he has no clue how a person with mental illness actually feels or functions. A little empathy and some listening skills would go a long way. I do feel he is overworked though and maybe suffering some burnout of his own. Im still trying to find a new psych, but id rather go without than have to deal with him again.

Submitted April 20, 2021

This man is poorly educated and fairly inept at his practice. He does not hold any value in therapeutic alliances or rapport building which causes the majority of his appointments to be unnecissarily combative. His approach is outdated and he really only knows how to work with a handful of OLD treatment modalities which is why he stays within his few older medications that he knows how to work with unless there is some brand new medication on the market... he will prescribe that without any knowledge or experience which i think is because there is most likely a financial incetive to push new brands. This is a dangerous kind of practice which is going to be more harmful than having no psychiatrist. Better off working with you GP and your own selfhelp research.

Submitted April 18, 2021

He doesn't listen. He minimizes problems and just tries to give you sleeping medicine if you have a serious psychiatric issue. He doesn't take your suffering seriously, and he just wants you gone. Very rude. I went to him when I was suicidal in the hospital and I told him I thought I had PTSD, he said no. I just had really bad anxiety. He kept telling me I just have really bad anxiety. Got to the Peterborough Hospital, and in only 3 visits they said it was very clear I was suffering from PTSD. This dude never took me seriously. Went to him recently about my PTSD symptoms, he said I'm just "too tired" like he said every other time I tried to go to him for help. Not helpful at all. Basically mock the mentally ill. I will never be going back.

Submitted Feb. 4, 2021

Wow worst physiatrist experience, please try to find someone else, seriously. I’m not normally picky, but he can’t even do the bare minimum.
He doesn’t listen to you at all, terrible bedside manner, very rude.
When I asked questions he wouldn’t actually give me the answer to the question.
He actually made up statistics about a study I knew about, and was just lying to make his point seem valid.
When I asked a question about something with my medication he said “You’re questioning my ability as as a physiatrist, you don’t need to know that just do what I tell you” and then ranted/ yelled at me when it wasn’t even about him I just had a question about the medication.
I literally recorded the call one time because I was so baffled that someone could be so unprofessional and manipulative.
I just went in for depression, he made it worse. I dreaded talking to him, I felt like I was being bullied the whole time. He would judge what ever I said.
I could literally do a better job than him, I don’t know where he got his qualifications from but I seriously question them.

Submitted Feb. 1, 2021

Dr Gulati was my psychiatrist for years. He always treated me well. I have no complaints.

Submitted Dec. 24, 2020

I wouldn't go back to this doctor if my life depended on it. At my first visit he told me he thought I either had depression and anxiety, or bipolar disorder, so he put me on anti-depressants to "see what happened", and told me to go to the ER if I "got really hyper". Well I did, and I went to the ER, and he was the on call psychiatrist. He didn't come to see me, just told them I must be bipolar, and to take me off the anti-depressants and put me on a (very expensive) anti-psychotic called Latuda. (I later learned this was a new medication and he seemed to be putting EVERYONE on it, regardless of side effects). About a month after that, I ended up back in the ER because I was suicidal. Again, he never came to see me, just talked to the mental health nurse on the phone, and said we'd take a few weeks to wean me off the Latuda, and start me on another. I pointed out that I was suicidal, and not safe for myself, and he told her that he "guessed" they could admit me and swap my meds quickly. The mental health nurse then asked if I could come back tomorrow for admission! I again pointed out I was suicidal, and she seemed annoyed and got huffy and called the mental health inpatient ward again, and I was admitted that night. She also tried to blame my depression on some personal relationship things that I'd mentioned to her, blaming me for being depressed. The staff in his office, and the staff in the inpatient ward were very good, but this nurse was so awful that I had to give the "staff" three stars. It was in the inpatient ward that I learned quite a few of the patients there were either in because of a bad reaction to Latuda, or he had just prescribed them Latuda.
The new medication was Seroquel, which made me put on 40 pounds (I was never warned of this side effect), and caused me to become pre-diabetic, so my endocrinologist said I needed to get off it, as the high blood sugar was a common side effect. When I spoke to Dr. Gulati about this, he told me that she "is just saying that because that's what the label on the box says", and that "she doesn't prescribe it regularly", implying she didn't know what she was talking about.
When I asked for Lamictal (which had been suggested by a friend with bipolar) he said we "don't use that in Canada anymore". Instead he tried to put me back onto Latuda! When I pointed out that it had made me suicidal, he said "maybe it was a coincidence"...told him I didn't want to test that theory. He then asked if I had a "history of bipolar", and when I asked if he meant a family history he said "no, a personal history...have you ever been diagnosed?" I said "yes...by you..." and he had to look back through my chart to confirm. So he got annoyed and put me on another anti-psychotic that I stopped taking because I was so sick and tired of trying new meds that didn't work.
A month later I got in with a new doctor in Peterborough, who started me on Lamictal right away, and it's been working well for me.

Submitted Dec. 3, 2020

I Saw Dr Gulati about a year ago. He took down my family history in about 10 minutes, made a quick diagnosis of bi-polar disorder and prescribed a med, which after I looked it up is often prescribed for schizophrenia. He basically told me that "no other med will ever work for you." His underlying message was this was my only hope. I was referred to him for a combination of anxiety/depression. I felt brushed off and rebuked even though I'm a professional social worker myself. I questioned his diagnosis. How can you begin to diagnose someone in 10 mintues? I'd never met him before in my life, nor did he have any sort of background prior to our meeting. Needless to say I did not take the med. I went back to my family Dr and told him to please never refer him to this man again. I can't imagine how in the world he could make a diagnosis of bi-polar disorder with mania, when I am far from manic in any form. Don't be afraid to question him or ask for another referral to a different person (you may have to go outside of Lindsay and there might be a bit of a wait). I was appalled and very disappointed with him, his rapid "diagosis" of 10 minutes and treatment plan. I spend far longer assessing my clients, with the caveat this is what I'm hearing & seeing "today." Avoid this man at any cost!

Submitted Oct. 22, 2020

What an awful experience. He was rude, condescending and at times mean. Not what someone needs in a crisis. He changed my meds and did not even bother to call the pharmacy!! Thank goodness my family doctor is absolutely incredible. I will not have another appointment with this man.

Submitted Oct. 2, 2020

This man is a poor excuse for a human being. I came in after being diagnosed with bipolar while in a youth psychiatric centre after suffering an acute psychosis. I came in and when I went to shake his hand, he quickly gripped my finger with his thumb and index finger and then let go, looking thoroughly disgusted that he had to touch me. He was shockingly rude and told me that if I went off my medication (which caused me to gain 50 lbs, not be able to form any complex thought and made me so anxious I couldn’t move or speak half of the time) I would end up on an overpass thinking I was Wonder Woman and jumping off thinking I could fly. He told me that I need to eat this and that, exercise this much, wake up and go to bed at this time, etc.. and if I didn’t do that I had no hope, and if I did and it didn’t work than that was just how I was going to have to live. He made me cry and continued to lecture me during this and I ended up walking out on him. 6 months later I finally was able to see an amazing psychiatrist who diagnosed me with temporal lobe epilepsy, a form of epilepsy that had been causing all of my symptoms including psychosis (caused by uncontrolled partial temporal lobe seizures), and that the antipsychotics he refused to help me get off of cause seizures in patients with epilepsy, thus worsening my symptoms. She figured this out in one appointment. If I wasn’t able to find a different doctor who helped me off the meds and put me on different ones I can say with a lot of certainty that I wouldn’t be here today and the blood would be on his hands. Now I am in university majoring in psychology, graduated high school at the top of my class, lost all of the weight I had gained and more, and am hopeful for my future. If you are experiencing emotional distress, do not go to him. Even if it takes you longer to find another psychiatrist, he will feed you false information and degrade you. He should have had his license revoked a long time ago.

Submitted Sept. 13, 2020