She delivered my son 19 years ago and broke his collarbone while pulling him out with the forceps. I had no idea until a year later when he got x-rays. As a newborn he was always crying and I didnt know that he’s collarbone was broken and that he was in pain that whole time. I would never recommend her to anyone. She was rude during our in office checkups. She always seemed miserable too.

Submitted Aug. 7, 2021

Terrible. Absolutely TERRIBLE!
Dr. Patricia Raby was the on-call OB during my mother’s 4th delivery (me). After waiting 12-14 hours in the hospital (amniotic sac already ruptured and contractions one after another), despite my mother’s pleas for help, Dr. Raby refuse to deliver my, claiming that the birth was too complicated. So she let my mother wait and wait and wait...until she would finish her shift and leave the complicated birth and high-risk mother and fetus to another OB. That didn’t happen.
The last few hours during Dr. Raby’s shift the fetal heart beat was lost. Dr. Raby went hysterical and starting screaming “I need help!” repeatedly until the tiny hospital room filled with healthcare workers. Refusing earlier to give my mother an epidural or delivering via cesarean (even at my mom’s request), an exhausted and pain-consumed mother managed to push out half of her 13.6lbs baby boy before fainting. Forceps were used to pull the remainder of the baby out. Due to such a prolonged deliver, I chocked on the amniotic fluid (meconium aspiration) and had underdeveloped lungs (probably because glucocorticoid therapy was not started, which any healthcare provider SHOULD know must be done when a baby is that large!) and suffered and still do to this day from regular headaches, but mom had it worse. Extreme vaginal tearing and uterine damage caused prolonged postpartum hemorrhaging, resulting in serious blood loss down to about 40%. No blood replacement therapy was given even when the family requested it (a trend it seems). A prolonged hospital stay was the result, and 19 years of heavy vaginal bleeding, eventually causing a uterine prolapse. A partial hysterectomy was my mom’s only option, which in turn brought its own complications. And all of this because an OB didn’t know what she was doing and waited too long before delivering an extremely compromised fetus. Oh and did I mention that she never came to see my mom after I was delivered? Dr. Raby only looked in from the hall to see that my mom was alive and walked away, my mom never seeing her again.

I am 22 years old now and a healthy - my mom says brilliant :p - nursing student, all thanks to God who didn’t let this stupid “doctor’s” evil intentions bring irreversible harm on me or my mom. It pains me to think that people like Dr. Raby bring such a bad name to healthcare only because they should not be in it...

Submitted Oct. 27, 2019

Had a great experience with Dr Raby. She is very caring in her own way. If you need to be babied then you should go somewhere else. Never waited more than 10 minutes for an appointment.

Submitted April 23, 2019

Dr Raby is/was an AMAZING doctor!!! She delivered all 3 of my children and I was always comfortable, informed and lovingly cared for.

Submitted April 10, 2019

I was with Dr Raby for my ectopic surgery and I went to her again for my first baby. She was very professional and knowledgeable. I know that she seemed a bit cold sometimes because she didn’t talk much. She was the kind of doctors that would really care about her patients. She remembers my name after three years, and she would encourage me and held my hand with a big, warm smile. I was transferred to another dr Lam (she is great too.) because she retired by then for my second baby. I regretted that I didn’t go and visit before her retirement. Wish her all the best and I miss her!

Submitted Feb. 11, 2019

Dr. Raby was a great doctor. Although she was not present at birth of my daughter she was always helpful at answering my questions and making me feel comfortable. Her receptionist on the other hand is quite rude, and personally she would be way better off with a new one!

Submitted Feb. 5, 2019

Loved her! She has been with us through the birth of my niece (now 17), nephew and daughters. Right up until her retirement, she has been an outstanding provider who kept her promise to care for her clients. I’ve seen men comment and review that they’d been “ignored” but couldn’t see that her focus wasn’t to hold anyone’s hand, it was to do her job for women and unborn children. She’ll be missed.

Submitted Oct. 28, 2018

Horrible! Avoid at all costs! This woman should not be a physician, much less an OB. My entire career has been in healthcare, and if I behaved the way she does I would have been fired many times over.

Submitted Oct. 25, 2018

Just plain awful, unprofessional. Refused to tell me what was happening in a difficult situation. Run fast. I actually phoned the hospital to avoid her in a later pregnancy

Submitted July 13, 2018

I met Dr Raby for one appt. That was MORE than enough. She was rude, demanding, told my husband where to stand. When I asked questions she told me to "get off the internet" and that she does every procedure exactly as often as necessary. Reading through all the comments just confirms many of my suspicions. O.o I went back to my family doctor and insisted on a referral to a different OB. Dr Halmo was great. Having now had 4 uncomplicated births, the first with Halmo, and the subsequent with midwives, and now expecting my 5th... it still haunts me that if I had not spoken up I likely would have been treated as many of the commenters say as a false high risk and who knows how that would have turned out. She sounds GREAT for deliveries that are complicated or difficult. But for anyone with an uncomplicated pregnancy and low risk? Please find yourself a much more supportive hands off doctor or midwife.

Submitted May 24, 2018