Carteret Medical Center: Dabney Lisa G MD

Dr. Dabney is professional, kind and compassionate. She always takes time to any questions or concerns and addresses all aspects of ones health care. I am pleased to have found a physician with these very traits so close to home. In addition the front desk is organized and very proficient in handling all matters. I highly recommend Dr. Dabney.

Saw Dr. Dabney with symptoms of UTI. Nurse took weight, blood pressure and sample of urine. Waited in room for a short time and Dr Dabney came and informed me that yes it was UTI and discussed any other problems that I might have, then sent medicine to drug store of my choosing.

This is my first time with a female M D. and I would recommend her to anyone. I am new to this area and will definately aee Dr. Dabney again.

Takes her time and is thorough and has a great bedside manner. Will squeeze you in if you need to be seen.

Great doctor, she takes time to listen to you and take care of what you need done.

Good medical care

Don't waste your time if you're looking for an empathetic Doctor who is kind, patient, understanding, and helpful to either the patient, family or care taker. She is as cold as a fish w/ absolutely no bedside manners. My prayers now have finally been answered after finding Jennifer Brown who is a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner. She is located at Sound Medical in Cape Carteret. Jennifer is wonderful, I feel like I've found a saint after having to deal with Dabney, who has been my mother's Dr for quite sometime. I am my mothers caretaker who has been suffering with Dementia for the past three years. Good Riddance.

I recently went to Dr.Dabney with sore throat, cough and chest pain.Telling her my symptoms, she cut me off and said it doesn't matter if sputum is yellow, green, red, brown or blue..she literally spent 5 minutes with me, one look at my throat and said it's not strep and sent me away with no medications when I was obviously feeling horrible.As the day went on my throat pain worsened to where I could barely swallow at all, so I tried calling her office and got no answer, so I went back to the office.
Monica (front desk)is always helpful and told me to take a seat and wait for the nurse.They called me back and did a strep test, which was negative and said they were sending it off for a culture and would call me with results.A week went by and they hadn't called me with results and my symptoms had worsened so I called them and the results were again negative.Monica offered me another appointment but I decided to try to wait it out.
A few days later my condition had worsened to the point that I went to the ER in the middle of the night where they gave administered a steroid
shot to relieve my symptoms.
This same thing happened two years ago and I had two or 3 appointments when I wasn't feeling any better, she finally gave me a prescription for an oral steroid, but I was sick for months and never tested for strep or flu.
So I wasted time off work and money to see her and have no treatment.

My sister called because she was having pressure on her chest and difficulty breathing. I don’t know what this offices protocol is for chest pain, but I’m sure it’s not let’s make an appointment for you on Wednesday. I don’t know who’s in charge of training the receptionist but I feel they need to be fired. Let’s hope my sister does not have a MI New or old show up on her ECC or her blood panel. Got one hand on the phone to dial my attorney.

If I could give a zero I would, Dr Dabney assigned me a medication that when I come off it cold turkey I go into mental fits and even get suicidal... I had to miss an appointment during all this covid19 craziness to take care and protect my immune deficit grandmother. And because I missed that one appointment I’m stuck without my medicine, not even allowed to have enough to wean off of safely. Im at the point I’m going to have to find someone to care for my grandmother while I go to a hospital to wean off this medicine without significant danger to my health.

Also most of my visits are her berating me over how I treat myself mentally, and cutting me off saying the workouts I do do for my weight doesn’t matter Unless I do it specifically her way. As well as advice to cut off my family and tell my Dementia ridden grandmother to seek other help that she can’t afford. Or to tell my dad who works hard that I can’t help him here and there, or that he needs to work even harder to take care of his mother he lives close to an hour away from when I’m the one who lives with her to care for her.

I’ve tried to go in there and focus specifically on my health, and when I’m feeling fine just going in and coming right back out for her check ups... but I go in and come back out after having a lecture about my weight, family, and mental healTh that was perfectly fine before I went in.

I’m changing doctors to one that doesn’t turn a check in visit into a Lecture, and can just focus on my health and not my personal life.