Barte Lorna MD

Completely unprofessional. Will talk over you and not give you time to explain what you’re going through. I think she has narcissistic personality disorder. Please, for your sake, go ANYWHERE else.

This Dr. does not care about her patients, at least that is our experience. If I could rate her zero stars I would. My wife's psychiatrist moved out of state, and we were referred to Dr. Barte and she claimed that the previous Dr. told her not to change my wife's medications. This sounded strange since my wife was now being treated by Dr. Barte and not her previous psychiatrist, and yet she refused to do her own intake on my wife and make her own determination on my wife's condition and medication needs...so she took the word of a prior Dr. and didn't do her own job and due dilligence. In addition, after 3 weeks of requesting a prior authorization on one of the medications that the insurance was requiring from her and her office staff, I made one last attempt to get this sorted out and she FINALLY handled this. Then she claimed that she never received any calls from us and said that the pharmacy never faxed a request, when in fact the pharmacy has a record of faxing her office 13 times! This medication is crucial to my wife's care and she was out of this medicine the whole time that Dr. Barte did not do her job. She is very unprofessional and unethical, and she has no problem being dishonest with her patients. Last, she winds up unilaterally firing my wife as a patient claiming that my wife is dissatisfied with her services. Based on her reason, it is reasonable to think that if my wife was dissatisfied with her services, then my wife would make the decision to find another Dr. In her letter, Dr. Barte said that she would no longer provide medical care to my wife effective immediately and that she would remain available for 2 weeks for emergency care only and she would refill medications for one month. In the meantime, she had already refilled one medication, yet she sent the prescription to the wrong CVS, eventhough she has been sending refills to the correct pharmacy for about 2 years that my wife was under her care. So my wife is removed from her care immediately and without my wife having another Dr. This is not only unethical, but is against the rules/laws put in place by the California Board of Psychiatry. Needless to say, we are putting in a complaint with the board against Dr. Barte. In a nutshell, she is unprofesional, unethical, immoral, incompetent, and dishonest. Do your own due dilligence if you explore having her as your Dr.

Very unprofessional, says the same things over and over every single appointment. She does not really seem interested in helping her patients or solving the problems experienced. Go anywhere else for better help.

Was always late and didn't take me seriously, very unprofessional.

I'm pretty annoyed with this doctor. My PCM put in an emergency appointment to be seen by her. I called and SHE told me she is not accepting any new patients. But, all these other military spouse are brand new patients and getting in to see her. What a joke for this area!