I had surgery roughly one year ago, to repair a deviated septum and shrink sinus glands. After all this time, I would say my breathing and sleep are roughly the same or even slightly worse, but that doesn't bother me so much, since you hear this happens from time to time. Whenever I met with Dr. Friedman, I just always felt so rushed. It seems like he has appointments every 3 minutes, and didn't provide nearly enough time to handle questions I had. About 3 months after our surgery, I met him virtually, and he didn't even ask how I was doing, he immediately told me the next drug to take. Extremely frustrating. I would highly encourage you to look elsewhere... read full review
September 2024
I really wanted to like this place and I did, at first. But I ended up transferring both myself and my son's care from Chicago ENT to Rush, where we both have had much better care. Dr. Friedman is very kind and friendly, but that's about the only good thing I can say about this place. The waits are insane to see him (they're always running very behind), and I ultimately lost faith in his recommendations. After putting me on multiple rounds of intense antibiotics that gave me awful side effects to try to clear a sinus infection, he ended up recommending a major surgery for me to "fix" a prior surgery I'd had. That didn't seem right to... read full review
September 2024
Just spent about 30 minutes waiting on the phone to book something. Spoke to someone and let them know I had an injury and needed the next available appointment. I have Ambetter IL insurance, which I know isn't accepted by most people, so I mentioned that I would need to know the out of pocket price. The person on the phone cut me off and said "Since you have medicare, we are not accepting out of pocket payments." One, my plan isn't medicare. It's just a bad marketplace plan. Two.. What are medicare patients supposed to do if they have an urgent issue? I think we all know the answer, is the system doesn't care about them. But for Chicago... read full review
I had surgery roughly one year ago, to repair a deviated septum and shrink sinus glands. After all this time, I would say my breathing and sleep are roughly the same or even slightly worse, but that doesn't bother me so much, since you hear this happens from time to time. Whenever I met with Dr. Friedman, I just always felt so rushed. It seems like he has appointments every 3 minutes, and didn't provide nearly enough time to handle questions I had. About 3 months after our surgery, I met him virtually, and he didn't even ask how I was doing, he immediately told me the next drug to take. Extremely frustrating. I would highly encourage you to look elsewhere... read full review
I really wanted to like this place and I did, at first. But I ended up transferring both myself and my son's care from Chicago ENT to Rush, where we both have had much better care. Dr. Friedman is very kind and friendly, but that's about the only good thing I can say about this place. The waits are insane to see him (they're always running very behind), and I ultimately lost faith in his recommendations. After putting me on multiple rounds of intense antibiotics that gave me awful side effects to try to clear a sinus infection, he ended up recommending a major surgery for me to "fix" a prior surgery I'd had. That didn't seem right to... read full review
Just spent about 30 minutes waiting on the phone to book something. Spoke to someone and let them know I had an injury and needed the next available appointment. I have Ambetter IL insurance, which I know isn't accepted by most people, so I mentioned that I would need to know the out of pocket price. The person on the phone cut me off and said "Since you have medicare, we are not accepting out of pocket payments." One, my plan isn't medicare. It's just a bad marketplace plan. Two.. What are medicare patients supposed to do if they have an urgent issue? I think we all know the answer, is the system doesn't care about them. But for Chicago... read full review