Hmmmm...
I have a very mixed review here. I came after another gynecologist failed me miserably and kept having me go to the ER instead of actually investigating to find out what was wrong. Desperate, I googled "Best Ovarian Doctor in San Diego" and Dr Kahn came up. I was able to quickly book an appointment with the incredibly friendly reception.
The office is very clean and professionally run and all the office staff I have encountered are absolutely wonderful. Of course it's Scripps so I'm sure that's why but 5 stars for the office and staff. Best in all my recent years of doctor visits.
Now the wait time varied. Sometimes I waited a long time in the lobby. More often than not though, I was ushered in the patient room on time, told to undress, then I'd have to sit around for a very very long time to wait for the doctor. One visit was 45 minutes, undressed (but in the gown given) which was ridiculous. As sick as I was though, this could be overlooked.
Where I had problems are with Dr. Kahn's lack of listening to me about my long term symptoms and misdiagnosing me. Even worse he ignored the recent imaging results I had already had done and brought to him. Dr. Kahn is on a board for Interstitial Cystitis, a fact unknown to me before my first appointment. My experience is that his predisposition to assume women who come to him with pelvic pain + frequent bladder voiding must have this disorder and that severely clouded his judgement in my case. I wasted money and time coming back for repeated treatments instead of immediately going into a MRI or laparoscopy to diagnose what I actually had (and told him I likely had on every visit). Finally in the 3rd month of visiting for these treatments every 2 weeks I pulled the plug saying they caused too much pain and I really needed him to search for the real cause.
By the time month 4 came around I became crippled from debilitating pain and loss of feeling in my legs from long term anemia and required the use of a cane. Finally the MRI was done and I was told cancer was a low chance but possible as well as multiple other tumors. My last appointment with him finally all my frustration came to rise and it was obvious to me he was not the right physician to handle my case. I literally ended up storming out of the office.
Thankfully I got to an excellent oncologist gynecologist in Los Angeles who immediately found stage IV Endometriosis ALL over my body and organs (this was causing the bladder issues too), my organs on the right side were actually frozen together which was partially why I needed the cane. I was told I have one of the most severe cases seen.
This new doctored listened and will be handling my care as long as I need a gynecologist now. Endometriosis was on my sciatica also which also caused the cane requirement. She also said my anemia went on for so long from having endo for so long that my health was suffering from it. Additionally my fallopian tube had to be removed because it was tangled, twisted and non functional from the endo damage. Also a pre-cancer leiyomyosarcoma was found, luckily it was removed early before there was further damage and also small uterine myomas all over the place. I am so fortunate I had the guts to stand up for myself and get myself to the right place.
I was horrified that as much time as I spent in Kahn's office, none of this had ever been considered and my sharing with him my strong suspicion of advanced endometriosis based on a chocolate cyst I had on imaging 7 years earlier (chocolate cyst are only from endometriosis I've been told) went on deaf ears. No matter how many times I told him I did not have IC, that my symptoms were not a match and it seemed to be endo and myoma disease he blew it off and vocally notated in his computer each visit that I was a IC patient.
Despite all this, I really truly liked Dr. Kahn as a person, which is why my feelings are so mixed. I think he is a good person and if you do have IC or are simply looking for a ob/gyn for check ups, I still highly recommend this facility. Highly. I however will not return but I had an extreme case. I suppose I wish doctors would be more forthcoming regarding their experience and simply say, "I have not dealt with this before so I must refer you to xxxx".
*One last thing, during one of my visits, in which I was on a cycle (and mine are ridiculously heavy) after my exam was finished, I asked the doctor a question and my Jewish faith was revealed in that question. Dr. Kahn was excited and began to share some of his family history. However he kept going on and on and I was caught like a deer in headlights, with only the patient gown on during my cycle (no further details necessary). He seemed so oblivious to this fact which made no sense as be had performed the exam and was aware. That always sat wrong with me so I suppose I should have stopped my visits after that experience. Lesson learned. read more
