Gabrielle Schaefer MD

If Unilocal had the option for no stars I would give her that! If you want a careless cocky rude doctor who always interrupts you while you asking her a question or doesn’t take the time to understand you or your needs or rushes you or makes you feel at unease or stress then by all means this is the doctor for you! If not then please avoid Dr schaefer at all cost! Don’t fall into the photos of her with babies and patients on the wall that’s what got us and she was probably just nice and fake at the first few appointments but after she knows she’s got you she will stop caring! I regret choosing her as my obgyn it was a very stressful pregnancy with her and her staff who was useless and careless if you happen to call this office and Linda answers the phone please hung up or ask for someone else because she’s not capable of giving advice about pregnancy symptoms it’s just a guessing game for her she won’t check with the doctor but just give her I think I believe try this try that! Anyways what really pushed me off the edge was when I was in delivery the doctor kept leaving during my delivery (the baby’s head was already out and she was literally telling the nurse to page her when I get my next contraction comes and that does going to go to the next building… Are you kidding!!! If she was a great or even a caring doctor she would have stayed through out my whole delivery which short but she was just so impatient and difficult made my experience horrible and even forgot to numb me for my stitches !! I had to ask her and scream few times for her to partially numb me terrible doctor worse experience ever please save yourself the stress and find a obgyn outside of valleycare or see Dr stone or salata or oliveira

I love Dr. Schafer! She was on call the day of my daughter’s delivery, since my OBGYN at the time was out of town. She was very kind, gentle, informative, and brought an ease over me during a very rough, long & painful labor. My sweet little munchkin is now 2 years old (soon to be 3), and she is as healthy as can be! Many thanks to Dr. Santana & Dr. Schafer for their guidance, patience, understanding, and most importantly — for caring! I would recommend both 10x over!

My visit with Dr. Schaefer was great. She was highly professional and cared a lot about answering any and all of my questions.

Just had an ovoectomy with Dr. Schaefer and it couldn’t have gone any smoother! She is a great doctor and has great follow up.

I went to see Dr. Schaefer as my doctor was out on leave. Our initial appointment was fine as she gave us concerning news about my pregnancy. She sent us for blood work to confirm with the results coming on Saturday. As this was a big deal for us, most likely I was going to miscarry, I was hoping to hear from the doctor or nurse over the weekend… No such luck. No call Saturday. No call Sunday… Not even a call on Monday. It was not until I called the office on Tuesday to let them know that I was indeed miscarrying that they gave me my blood test results. The follow up should have been better given the sad circumstances!

I wish I had something good to say about this office… but I don’t. Ok I will try: A year and a half ago I met Dr. Schaefer in the emergency room. I am thankful she was there and helped me at the time. However, the care I received afterward was rushed, dismissive, and if she would have taken the time to listen to me it is possible that wouldn’t have needed to go to her office again yesterday under the same circumstances.
I once again didn’t get the medical care I felt my situation required so I cancelled my imaging appointment and went elsewhere. Now what happened next almost made me forget my English! I got a call from a nurse not to see how I was this morning, but to lecture me. Even if it were a warranted lecture, which this was not, I am pretty sure «call patients and lecture them» is not part of a nurse’s job duties.
So ladies, all I can say is go with your gut. Trust your gut. If you do not feel satisfied with your care then find another doctor like I did yesterday. There is better and more empathetic care out there.

If there was a zero star, I would have chosen that option.
I’ve been a patient of Dr. Schaefers for years, and have never been blown away by her. Typically feel rushed at appts and the front office is rude at best. Chalk it up to laziness for staying with her for so many years.
However, the last few days were the last straw. Tried having a prescription refilled, but it was rejected by Dr. Schaeffer three days ago. Have called multiple times to find out what the issue is since I’ve had this prescription before. Every time I called, the rude reception would say that they would leave a message for Dr. Schaefer and that was the best they could do. On one of those days, I called and called and either got a busy signal or the phone would just ring. When I mentioned that today to the receptionist, she nonchalantly said that they were having phone problems on Friday afternoon… wow an OBGYN who’s patients can’t get a hold of them for hours?! What if you were going into labor… unacceptable.
I finally called for the last time today and the receptionist said that the prescription had been filled earlier in the afternoon. After trying to get this figured out for the last few days and asking for a call back, totally unacceptable that they never called/​texted/​communicated. I will never go back to this office. I can’t believe the level of unprofessionalism.
Stay away… you have been warned.

This Dr. Is what happens when you become a number in the healthcare system. No more Dr., pt. Relationships, get in get out get paid. The staff like most other Dr’s office act as though they are entitled to have a job. Worst of all, because they deal with pt all day it gives them the right to have personality of wet mop. Good job Dr. S. After med school should have taken a customer service course, as it seems your not able to see past the in and out burger mentality.

I love Dr Schaefer! I’ve been going to her for about 4 years now and she delivered my son. She has always been friendly and informative and was great during my pregnancy. I’ve had to wait a couple times but only because she had emergencies at the hospital or was called in to delivery a baby.
I had a long labor, 22 hours, she checked in frequently and ended up performing my c-​section. I would highly recommend her.

Dr. Schaefer was my OB-​GYN throughout my pregnancy.
Although she wasnt there during the delivery, she was wonderful the whole 38 weeks. She understood my concerns and she was very gentle. She is the best OB-​GYN i could have asked for :)

I had 2 babies delivered with Dr. Schaefer and can’t say enough about how wonderful she is! I recommend her to everyone, whether for pregnancy or general female health.

Be very careful with this doctor. My wife and I went to see her and found quickly that she could not be bothered … we waited 1.5 hours past our appointment time, we were a half hour early as well as instructed. She walks in with NO apology for being late… proceeds to ask what we are there for and is gone within 5 mins. Does NOT ask if we have questions we have to stop her before leaving the room and almost force her to sit down and answer questions. We had some silly questions for certain but this is was our fist child and well we do expect the doctor to entertain our questions… and they were silly ones like where is the best birthing class, or what is the best pre-​natal vitamin.
Anyway wife got a funny feeling from here we ignored it thinking if she is a good doctor who cares how «nice» she is… we had one follow up question while scheduling the blood work and the office staff could not be bothered… come to find out the information we were to receive about the blood work, what it was for what it screened etc, was never given to us…
At this point we decided that we should look for another doctor… we had to get our medical records when we found another doctor and in doing so found that all the doctors notes were contrary to what my wife had said… things like «do you have any nausea?» etc… well my wife had nausea and the doctor wrote down «none» …
Amazing if you wanna risk the life of your baby … I would suggest seeing this doctor… if not look around plenty outside of the Valley Care medical system that are much more concerned with how they treat their patients.
Good luck! :)