{"distribution":{"1":{"rating_count":0,"rating_percentage":0,"review_count":0},"2":{"rating_count":0,"rating_percentage":0,"review_count":0},"3":{"rating_count":2,"rating_percentage":2.22,"review_count":1},"4":{"rating_count":2,"rating_percentage":2.22,"review_count":1},"5":{"rating_count":86,"rating_percentage":95.56,"review_count":42}},"average_rating":"4.915556","rating_count":"90","source_url":null,"reviews":[{"body":"I saw Dr Forst as part of my 6 mos follow up treatment following my immunotherapy treatment for melanoma. She is the best Dr I have seen at MGH She is always thorough, caring, and informed about my situation. She listens to my concerns and actually does follow through to focus on any problems I may be having, 5 ?? Highly recommend","review_date":"2026-07-25"},{"body":"I cannot say enough good things about Dr. Forst. I absolutely adore her and tolerate the 2-hour drive to meet with her, even if it means driving on the despicable MASSACHUSETTS TURNPIKE. I could never find the same care here in Western Mass. She's a real gem and so very caring. Thank you, Dr. Deborah Forst and MGH!","review_date":"2026-07-18"},{"body":"Hi, Dr. Forst is one of the best doctors I've ever had the pleasure to work with. She's just been terrific with her support and her knowledge. I had a genoma, mega, I forget, but a genoma was diagnosed and I had the operation last [redacted]. And she's been great with her follow-ups. And the last visit I had was the video visit. She was lovely as always, very knowledgeable and wonderfully explaining things so a layperson can understand. I just really love her. She's been such a comfort and I just so grateful that I got her as a doctor. So thank you.","review_date":"2026-07-03"},{"body":"Dr. Forst is always fully committed to providing excellent care for me as her patient.","review_date":"2026-06-28"},{"body":"Everyone in the office was very professional and courteous, listened carefully.","review_date":"2026-06-11"},{"body":"Dr. Forst is an incredible doctor and person. I'm so thankful to have been under her care since [redacted]. My family and I are so appreciative for everything she's done for us.","review_date":"2026-06-10"},{"body":"Dr. Forst and her colleague show great expertise and compassion.","review_date":"2026-06-07"},{"body":"I could not have more confidence in my Doctor.","review_date":"2026-05-28"},{"body":"Dr. Forst is amazing. She always takes whatever time I need to answer my questions and follow up with other questions I've had or procedures, what potential things could happen in the future. She always takes the time I need to answer my questions and make me feel comfortable.","review_date":"2026-05-18"},{"body":"Outstanding! Didn't explain why she was late. I assume she was waiting for imaging results . I had an MRI an hour earlier. [redacted]","review_date":"2026-04-18"},{"body":"D. Forst is committed to providing compassionate and contemporary care to her patients. She is aware of the data relevant to care and dedicated to exploring opportunities for best management.","review_date":"2026-04-15"},{"body":"Dr. Forst is compassionate and informed. I feel confident in her care.","review_date":"2026-04-13"},{"body":"She is a great doctor that I know I can trust. Even when she is late, she is so worth it. It is because she is kind and wants to answer our questions.","review_date":"2026-04-11"},{"body":"Professional, respectful and outstanding bedside manner.","review_date":"2026-03-29"},{"body":"Experience and care with this provider has been exceptional, particularly after my surgery!","review_date":"2026-03-28"},{"body":"Dr. Forst is brilliant, knows my case very well, made wonderful suggestions, and I'm very lucky to have her on my team.","review_date":"2026-03-27"},{"body":"I always know I'm in good hands with Dr. Forst. I appreciate her and her expert care, and I am grateful for both.","review_date":"2026-03-18"},{"body":"Dr. Forst is a very caring compassionate doctor - she aways listens and follows through on everything. Never makes me feel like my concerns are unfounded. She just wonderful and I am blessed to have her in my team.","review_date":"2026-03-08"},{"body":"Dr. Forst was a very easy person to talk to and made me feel very knowledgeable about the kind of oncology strategy that we were going to employ for my kind of cancer, which was greatly appreciated. She also was very straightforward and patient and gave me plenty of opportunities to ask questions.","review_date":"2026-02-28"},{"body":"Dr. Forst has always been caring and taken the time to answer any questions that I may have . I put that I would recommend her at a 10. But I wouldn't wish brain cancer on anyone. LOL!!! BUT...... if you you do get diagnosised with it, she's your Dr.","review_date":"2026-02-28"},{"body":"She is very caring, and takes time with you. She explains what she saw in the MRI.","review_date":"2026-02-19"},{"body":"Always attentive and caring.","review_date":"2026-02-15"},{"body":"She was very nice and professional and considerate of me and my condition.","review_date":"2026-02-07"},{"body":"Dr. Forst was absolutely fantastic. She was super understanding and accommodating to the fact that it was a super scary time for me not knowing if my brain tumor was cancerous or not. She was absolutely fantastic. Her entire staff was wonderful. She explained stuff in a way that was easy to understand. I understood most of it from because I'm a STEM student, but she explained it in a way that my mom, who's not a STEM person, understands. And I thought that was really fantastic that not only did she address me as an adult, but she also addressed my mom as well because she's my support system. But Dr. Forst was fantastic and I couldn't speak highly of her, highly, I couldn't speak more highly of her. But yeah, she was great and her office is fantastic. Yeah.","review_date":"2026-01-23"},{"body":"Excellent and caring service.","review_date":"2026-01-09"},{"body":"As always, Dr. Forst is just the best doctor. She is down to earth and takes the time to answer all my questions. I am so happy she is my doctor.","review_date":"2026-01-04"},{"body":"My visit with Dr. Forst was terrific. Her staff is great as well. They always get back to me and I look forward to talking to her again.","review_date":"2025-12-22"},{"body":"Professional and well done","review_date":"2025-12-20"},{"body":"She seems perfectly competent [redacted]","review_date":"2025-12-14"},{"body":"Hi, I'd just like to say that Deborah Forrest is absolutely wonderful. Appreciate all she does. She takes the time, explains everything, very thorough, and she's just a great doctor all around. I would highly recommend her.","review_date":"2025-12-03"},{"body":"Love them","review_date":"2025-11-29"},{"body":"Dr. Forst has been an excellent provider for me for the past couple of years that I've been seeing her. She definitely answers my questions, never makes me feel rushed at all, and I always walk out of her office feeling better than I did when I went in. She's just very attentive and very compassionate.","review_date":"2025-11-23"},{"body":"Didn't include the measurement of vitals as part of the nurse section. All that worked out fine, plus I know the data capture procedure fairly well.","review_date":"2025-11-20"},{"body":"Always pleasant and professional","review_date":"2025-11-15"},{"body":"All good","review_date":"2025-11-17"},{"body":"Dr Forst does an excellent job explaining medical terms and my diagnosis to me. She listens and always answers my questions","review_date":"2025-11-08"},{"body":"Dr. Forst has been the ultimate professional along with very knowledgeable and caring.","review_date":"2025-10-26"},{"body":"Dr Forst is wonderful! Very smart and compassionate. Looks to underlying causes. Really grasps the real person instead of only lab results.","review_date":"2025-10-26"},{"body":"Dr. Forst is , above all, a scientist. She gravitates toward data. She doesn't like to speculate. She prefers to live in a world of what's known.","review_date":"2025-10-11"},{"body":"Thoughtful and considerate as test review and information was consiclely explained.","review_date":"2025-10-09"},{"body":"I believe I already mentioned this in the first survey I did online, on email, but Dr. Forst is extraordinarily thorough. She makes me feel very comfortable when talking to her. She knows what she's reporting on with regard to imaging. She makes it explainable to me in an easy fashion, and she is a warm person, and I'm very glad she's my doctor.","review_date":"2025-10-06"},{"body":"Provider is confident in the treatment being provided by the team and showed ct pictures of the changes which was very helpful","review_date":"2025-10-04"},{"body":"In the past 4 years I have always had great care from this provider.","review_date":"2025-09-21"},{"body":"MGH best place to get care. Keep it up","review_date":"2025-09-11"}]}