Barbara Emery-Stolzer, MD – Edward-Elmhurst Health

I have seen Dr. Emery for quite a few years. The first time I met her I thought her somewhat cold but I have gotten her on a bad day. Since then she has always been very nice as well as responsive to my concerns. I like her and would recommend her to others.

Also would have given a zero, but not possible. I chose her as the office was close and under my insurance. I kept going back repeatedly for the same problem, and she kept prescribing me very strong prescriptions, even one that is the only defense against Anthrax! One of them was extremely expensive, like $ 170. Anyway, I started doing my own research and asked her if I had any positive bacterial results for her to prescribe me antibiotics. She looked at her records and said, well no. They were negative for bacteria.
SOOO she had been wasting all my time and money and giving me unnecessary antibiotics because she didn’t care to even check my test results! She even sent me for a hospital test for basically no reason. She had me so worried that I had a serious problem, and when I went to the hospital for this test, at 5am, they told me it would cost me $ 3000 out of my own pocket! I asked the lady at the hospital if it was really necessary and she said we should call my doctor because in her opinion it was not. I felt weird having her call my Doc so early, but she did and Dr Emery did not even know who I was by name! And she did not know what to recommend until she went to the office several hours later. SO! I told this lady to forget that. I could not afford an unnecessary expensive test.
Later on, Dr Emery finally figured out the root of my problem after I asked her many questions, and started to make her accountable after so many visits. She started *laughing* and told me my problem was very minor afterall and I should be on low-​grade antibiotics on an ongoing basis. I was so beyond taking her advice at that point. I was not going to be taking anymore antibiotics in the absence of a bacterial cause anymore, and I obviously didn’t need to take them. I can’t even believe she was laughing. I guess it’s funny for her to be a sucky doctor. After I stopped going to her, I did not have to take an antibiotic for several years in my other doctors’ opinions. I don’t know what is wrong with her. She is a terrible doctor, and her office staff is full of gossip queens that talk about every patient in there, while they make you wait in an empty waiting room. They have to take the proper amount of time to totally ignore the HIPAA laws and gossip about everyone’s confidential medical records.

1 star because zero was not possible on the site.
My husband and I had been seeing this doctor for just about 2 years as a primary care physician. I had an urgent health issue and called the office, the answering service stated that dr. emery was the doctor on call i had her paged. (if there was a different doctor on call I wouldn’t have done this, but figured I got lucky since she was my PCP). She called back right away but so EXTREMELY RUDE to me it was unbelievable, and drilled me on why I didnt call a different doctor for several minutes and even called me a liar when I said I didnt think that doctor was available. She reluctantly addressed my concern after minutes of making me feel like the smallest — most non important person ever. I actually cried after the phone call. I would have told her off on the phone but was scared and desperately wanted a doctor’s opinion. I CANNOT BELIEVE HOW RUDE she was and how upset I was by this one phone call. You could not pay me to see her again, I am having my records and my husbands transferred to someone who actually cares for their patients.