i have been seeing him for over a 1yr. scope after scope,i have a esphogus with rings around it,hiatal hernia,chronic gastritis,i see him for 5 min at appt. 5 seconds before i am put to sleep for scope.they tell me what is wrong. which is the same thing everytime,then have to wait 2wks for follow up! with no meds r anything!i am so sick,i have lost lots of weight. i was weighing 122 before i got sick with this now i am down to 105 within the last few month,contstant diahrrea,and hemorroids, i am goin back to my primary physican today. she is the best! i know i am dehydrated severly!! weak,nauseated always,and in pain.just plum wore out.i need to get better it feels,like somedays i am goin to die. i think dr.alvarez's practice has just gotten to big, and the patients r not getting the attention they need. thank you

Submitted July 7, 2011

well, somehow my last review was taken off here, although it was absolutely true, but i'll try to soften the blow here. The meeting with this doctor was very short and uninformative. Also, i went in there to get hemmarhoids removed, and that they were hanging out of my anus; I stated this as my reason for visiting when he asked me directly. This doctor told me that they would take care of that, no exaggeration or stretching of the truth here; those were his words. Anyway, I am put under for a colonoscopy, and after the surgery i notice i still have hemmarhoids outside my anus (which are painful and were the reason for my visit), when i asked why didn't he remove them, the nurse said, "well, we don't do that, you'd have to see a general surgeon"...so they told me after the fact, and i'm stuck with a large bill...i feel robbed and largely inconvenienced.

Submitted Jan. 14, 2009

I saw this doctor for upset stomach. He asked I write down all I ate, and when I had BMs. He did lab work. He even did a gastroscope but found no reason. Years later I realized I was simply lactose intolerant. I ate cereal and milk every morning before breakfast, which would explain why I was sick. This should have been very obvious to help, but instead I went through weeks of tests and procedures and ultimately he never told me I could be lactose intolerant!

Submitted Dec. 11, 2008

He never stays in the room longer than 1-2 minutes. He did a procedure on me and over two weeks ago and I still have no idea what he did during the procedure because he was too worried about telling me that im 50 pounds over weight and that when i'm forty my hernia that he found while dialing my throat would give me alot of touble. I was not there for the hernia I was there for my throat. He never mentioned my throat. I can't stand him, he's arrogant and full of himself. As soon as he releases me he will never see me again. All he does is bleed the medicaid system.

Submitted Nov. 17, 2007

My consultation for a colonoscopy was brief however, he was pleasant and so was his nurse. Unfortunately, you will have to wait and then some. The procedure for my colonoscopy went well although he was an hour and a half late and I was his first patient. I personally refer to this as double booking and call it assembly line patients, which I do not care for. What I believe happened, is he is seeing patients for consultations and in between does the colonoscopy procedure for scheduled patients with no regard to their scheduled appointment time.

Submitted April 4, 2007