Dr. Mary Houlihan, MD

not fully focused, often too busy, long wait times, and not patient with families

Dr. Houlihan is one of a kind. She is a hand holder. She knows your scared, she truly cares, which is hard to find with a surgeon. I am so glad she is my doctor.

Dr Houlihan is truly God sent. She is compassionate, has shown great care for me as her patient, goes above and beyond to explain and make sure you understand what she's explaining and is so assuring. This is truly her calling. All doctors should be like her.I had a horrible experience prior to switching to Dr. Houlihan from another breast surgeon that kept blowing off my concerns of new nipple discharge and calcification findings in mammograms for months until she finally decided to biopsy assuring me it probably is nothing, despite my strong family history. both mother and twin sister with breast cancer. Biopsy came back DCIS and she continued to be laid back saying this is stage 0 really nothing to worry about. She was cold, a bit arrogant and sometimes condescending with my concerns. She literally left me up in the air after diagnosing me with breast cancer bc I was having insurance difficulties. My gut told me I shouldn't stay with her and through God's will I found her.

Poor experience

Dr Mary Jane Houlihan helped me face partial mastectomy with some lymph node removal when I was so scared of cancer that I wanted double total mastectomies with both nipples removed, but she assured me, on her own time, by the way, that the statistics are the same, and I went thru with the operation yesterday and I am resting comfortably at home, and I know that I will still be able to play the cello, and I am very happy with our decision.

RUN!!! She lacks respect, sensitivity & her bedside manner is terrible. She doesn't answer questions & simply says "you are not at that point yet". I switched to another surgeon & it was a much better fit. It got to the point that I simply didn't trust her anymore and I am so happy that I went to another surgeon.

I’m absolutely shocked by any negative reviews of Dr. MJ. She performed 1/2 of my prophylactic mastectomy after I got my BRCA2 results and it was amazing. She was super personable, and almost motherly with me and my family. So warm and wonderful.

I met dr houlihan Jan of 2013. She did emergency surgery on an infection I got from lumpectomy in Dec 2012. She's an excellent doctor. After I fired the Dr who caused the infection she took me as a patient. She literally saved my life. I ended up needing mastectomy and she went to extreme lengths to eliminate another infection. She would call me at home before and after surgeries to check on me. She is an excellent doctor and the hospital is fortunate to have her.

would not recommend and would suggest staying far away, no focus on patient, family, and lacks any sensitivity and respect beside herself