Barbara C Holbert, MD

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4.933679 average rating from 193 reviews

• A good experience

  2026-07-01

• Knowledgeable, empathetic.

  2026-06-25

• Dr holbert is the best ever.

  2026-06-24

• Dr. Holbert has all the qualities I feel are important in a primary care physician. Professional, knowledgeable, caring, she listens carefully and treats you respectfully, including you in your care and treatment. She always makes you feel you are working together, as a team, and is open to exploring options.

  2026-06-10

• Dr. Holbert is great. She is very down-to-earth and easy to talk to.

  2026-06-08

• Dr Holbert is always on top of things and provides compassionate care.

  2026-06-03

• I have been a patient of Dr. Holbert's for more than 30 years and she is a wonderful provider. I wouldn't have anyone else.

  2026-06-05

• I am very lucky to have Dr. Holbert as my primary care physician. She is outstanding.

  2026-06-03

• I have been going to Dr. Holbert for over 30 years and feel incredibly fortunate every time I see her. She is one of a kind, thoughtful and caring, and very approachable on all levels. Her experience as a primary care physician is priceless really and I continue to feel lucky that I remain one of her patients. My husband has been seeing her for 30 years and many of our friends have also because she is an incredible doctor.

  2026-06-03

• Patients could benefit from more availability of this provider.

  2026-05-29

• Good experience with Barbara Holbert. One suggestion would be to have the blood test done prior to the yearly physical. That way, the results could be discussed at the appointment rather than follow-up after.

  2026-05-28

• Dr Holbert very nice doctor polite and caring she been my primary for very long time she is knows my issues and health challenges , and listen to my concerns and try to help .

  2026-05-24

• I totally trust my PCP to guide and give me the direction I need.

  2026-05-20

• Dr. Holbert and Downtown Medical are always professional and helpful.

  2026-05-15

• My experience with this provider was excellent. They were professional, attentive, and took the time to listen carefully to my concerns while making me feel comfortable and well cared for throughout the visit. I truly appreciated their thoughtful approach, clear communication, and genuine compassion. I left feeling confident in my care and very grateful for the positive experience.

  2026-05-12

• This care provider is exceptionally great customer service. I've been seeing ?

  2026-05-13

• Dr. Holbert and the entire MGH downtown team are just great. ?

  2026-04-30

• Dr Holbert is THE BEST.

  2026-04-30

• Very happy as always with my primary care provider.

  2026-04-28

• Dr. Holbert is very professional, knowledgeable and compassionate.

  2026-04-29

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  2026-04-22

• I've been with Dr. Holbert for years. I find her to be the most professional and kindest doctor I've ever dealt with. She understands me personally and my medical history and is able to give me the best advice possible! I couldn't imagine not seeing Dr. Holbert..

  2026-04-20

• Dr. Holbert has been my primary care doctor for over 30 years, and she is awesome. She listens and takes her time with me during visits.

  2026-04-16

• Extremely knowledgeable, kind and warm.patient oriented and empathetic

  2026-04-16

• I hope Dr. Holbert never retires!

  2026-04-16

• I have been a patient of Dr. Holbert's for 30 years and she is by far the best. I'm very lucky that she is my primary care and she always gives me excellent care and everyone in the office is helpful, knowledgeable, respectful, and very professional. So I'm very happy that this is my doctor's office. Thank you.

  2026-04-10

• Dr. Holbert gives me the opportunity to ask questions and listens and doesn't rush through the appointment which is greatly appreciated. She is thorough, professional, and personable.

  2026-04-09

• Dr. Holbert has been my Primary Care Physician for approximately 20 years. At age [redacted] it seems to me that you should know what a great doctor she is as well as I do.

  2026-04-08

• Dr. Holbert is incredibly knowledgeable and kind. She makes inquiries that demonstrate she has a strong understanding of my conditions and wants to ensure that I am receiving the best possible care. She explains the test that they will be running and why, and provides manageable and usable suggestions to improve my treatment.

  2026-03-17

• Dr. Holbert has been my doctor literally since I graduated from college. I am now about to turn [redacted], and I used to work in Boston, and I don't any longer, but I always make the trip to see her because I like her, know her, and trust her, and she's a great doctor.

  2026-03-18

• Dr. Holbert and her team are extremely professional, compassionate, and knowledgeable. Thank them very much.

  2026-03-13

• As always, Dr. Holbert was thorough and respectful. She listened to my issues and answered all my questions.

  2026-03-12

• My doctor is Barbara Holbert. She's been my doctor for 46 years. She also was my mom's doctor for elder care. She is wonderful, wonderful. Best doctor and only doctor I've ever had.

  2026-03-11

• Dr Holbert is great. So practical and helpful

  2026-03-08

• All good!

  2026-03-05

• Always care about my health

  2026-02-26

• I feel I am getting the highest quality care from Dr. Holbert.

  2026-02-22

• I feel as though I am in good hands respective to health care.

  2026-02-18

• I've been seeing Dr Holbert for years and she is excellent and very easy to work with.

  2026-02-26

• I think Barbara Holbert is one of the best doctors I've ever been to. I've been seeing her for many years and the clarity of information coming from her, her concentrated interest and personal attention is greatly appreciated. She is very attentive, not being distracted by other things. She asks all the right questions and is a delight to have as a primary care physician. Again, like I said, I've been seeing her for probably over 30 years. So it's been the best. I wish her all well in the future. She's the best.

  2026-02-11

• Dr. Holbert always listens and provides excellent care, has great follow-up, and would highly recommend her.

  2026-02-06

• Dr. Holbert has been my care provider for over 15 years, and I am very satisfy with her care.

  2026-02-07

• I deeply respect Dr. Holbert. She's been a strong provider and attentive listener for the years that I've had her as my primary care physician. She's found some good and helpful strategies for figuring out what might be the best way forward on a number of different concerns. I am grateful for her. She's found ways around some tough situations with my insurance. I would highly recommend her. I'm grateful for her. Thank you so much.

  2026-02-04

• Dr. Holbert is amazing. She always listens to me and helps me understand everything. I feel like she really cares. She knows all my feelings and is so attentive to my needs and quirks. And she know I love when shen sends the letter to follow up test. And always puts me at ease. She's the best Dr. I'm blessed to have her.

  2026-01-25

• Dr. Holbert is excellent and very helpful, insightful, and thorough for all of my questions. I've seen her and her practice for a very long time, but I'm very appreciative as I've had some changes in my health, and the care provided by her and her office helps me to stay as well as possible. So excellent care provided by her and everyone on her team. Really, really appreciated. Thank you.

  2026-01-23

• Very understanding

  2026-01-21

• Always on top of explaining my issues. With my Limbic Autoimmune Encephalitis my memory on stuff. Now to remember these things, I do jot them down... bless the whole staff.

  2026-01-21

• I always have a great experience with Dr. Holbert. He's been my primary care for at least 15 years. He knows my situation. She's very responsive and very helpful.

  2026-01-16

• Hi, Barbara Holbert and her team is beyond excellent. She's impossible for new patients. And in fact, even when I signed up with her 20 plus years ago, I was lucky to be able to get in and be her patient. Over the last few decades, she's caught some very crucial things. I'm a DES daughter and caught that I needed a leap procedure. She is present and thoughtful and like everything you could possibly want in a doctor. And in fact, I asked her, begged her, please, to not even consider retiring anytime soon because she's that excellent and her whole team is like that. So I absolutely could not recommend the office and Barbara Holbert, Dr. Holbert, and her whole team enough. I mean, they're just exemplary. And I hope that you're paying her enough and treating her very well because she's excellent.

  2026-01-14

• Dr. Holbert has always given me excellent care and follow up when needed.

  2026-01-11

• Very knowledgeable, polite, and i felt well taken care of

  2026-01-11

• I've been a patient of Dr. Holbert's for nearly 20 years, she's the absolute best. I look forward to my annual visits with her. She's an incredible provider - I wish everyone had such a wonderful PCP!

  2025-12-28

• There's no one like her Helpful in all the ways

  2025-12-26

• Working with Dr. Holbert is always a pleasure. Thank you.

  2025-12-24

• Excellent and thougtful

  2025-12-21

• Barbara has been my Primary for decades and is awesome. I dread the day she retires and I have to find someone else!

  2025-12-16

• Dr. Holbert has been my PCP for many years and I love her. She has been genuine and compassionate during my medical and personal challenges throughout the years. She is also smart and an excellent listener. I dread the day Dr. Holbert retires.

  2025-12-11

• I've been a patient of Dr Holbert for about 30 or so years. She is the best and your lucky to have her in your MGH group

  2025-12-11

• Dr. Holbert consistently provides caring and compassionate care while also being adept at getting straight to the heart of the issue. I also feel as if I play a key part in the shared decision-making process

  2025-12-11

• I've been a patient of Dr. Holbert's for almost 30 years, and I can't imagine anyone else providing the level of care that she does. She's wonderful.

  2025-12-09

• Dr Holbert always review and always go over my overall healthcare in detail. I am very satisfied with Dr Holbert she is always very thorough going through my overall health.

  2025-12-08

• Dr Holbert is a patient provider, good listener and works to address any questions, concerns or medical issues I may have. She is one of my favorite doctors that I had over the years I hope she never retires :)

  2025-12-07

• Dr Holbert is amazing- listens, gives great advice, straightforward, always pleasant and very informative.

  2025-12-01

• Dr. Holbert and staff are wonderful, professional, thoughtful, hard-working and overall, the base care givers around.

  2025-12-05

• Dr Holbert always listens carefully to my concerns and addresses each of them - without prejudice. And, I very much appreciate her attempts to help me.

  2025-12-04

• Dr. Holbert listens and explains extremely well. It is so helpful to see her and she makes herself available when one needs help.

  2025-11-19

• I have been sub Dr Holbert for over 30 years I moved out of mass to nh and still drive down to see her . She is a fantastic Dr and a genuinely nice person.

  2025-11-19

• Dr. Holbert is the best!

  2025-11-05

• I have been seeing Dr. Holbert since I was 28 years old - more than half of my life. I feel very lucky to have been under her care for all that time. She saw me from infertility through a cancer diagnosis last year, from my husband's vasectomy through my own menopause. It is an amazing professional relationship to bear witness to someone else's life.

  2025-11-06

• Dr. Holbert is knowledgeable about medical history & proactively advises on vaccines needed.

  2025-11-02

• Dr. Holbert has been my PCP for many, many years. I have the utmost faith and confidence in her and find her to be a very, very, very professional doctor and wonderful to work with.

  2025-10-31

• Dr Holbert is fabulous.

  2025-10-30

• They're very accommodating.

  2025-10-30

• I've had the same provider over 25+ years and I am provided with excellent service.

  2025-10-23

• Appointment was very thorough

  2025-10-13

• Dr Holbert has been my PCP for many years and I'm thrilled with the care she provides.

  2025-10-09

• Hope that she does not retire any time soon!

  2025-10-08

• Dr Holbert is amazing

  2025-10-08

• This office is great and Dr barbara holbert is the best . She listens and gives great advice . I trust her with my healthcare needs

  2025-09-17

• I appreciated the time she spent with me and respecting my decisions to not have some aspects of recommended care. I haven't seen her since Covid and there was alot to catch on it was a great visit.

  2025-09-17

• Dr Holbert is outstanding. Very grateful to have her as my PCP. She is why I'm willing to travel from Cape Cod for care.

  2025-08-27

• My provider has always been concerned about everything about my health. And she's been accurate. And on a scale of 1 to 10, she gets a 10.

  2025-08-27

• Yeah, some patients might feel anxious or a little, you know, anxiety about going to a doctor's appointment. But for my appointments with what we're talking about, I don't, I feel like no anxiety. I feel like, sort of like at home, I can be open. There's no ears about people at all. They're just, they know how to communicate with all different types of people. And like I've been treated very well by everybody from people behind the desk to doctors, nurses, assistants, blood work. He's a great guy, big time, you know, and it's just that it's not, stressful experience.

  2025-08-24

• I've been a patient of Dr Hobert's for 20+ years. She is always professional. She maintains a good sense of humor. She is one of the best doctors that I've seen in my lifetime.

  2025-08-21

• Dr Holbert's always attentive and committed to my health and care.

  2025-08-23