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    Carla Wells, MD

    3.8 (51 reviews)
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    This is Kate Lee .she is now 6 years old. I thank Dr wells si much.
    Hung C.

    Dr Carla notice earlier my pre eclampsia and call me to go hospital...that's how save my life and baby.. I have longer story..but I am down to earth person. Don't want to write too much. My daughter is already beautiful 6 yr old now.

    Elizabeth C.

    I am so glad that I chose Dr. Wells when I began my search for the right ob/gyn. I've been a patient of Dr. Wells since 2015, she delivered both of my daughters via c-section and removed a dermoid cyst from one of my ovaries. She is professional, proactive and truly cares for the well being of her patients. She is definitely above a 5 star rating in my opinion!

    Layla Grace 8.15.12
    Stacy D.

    Terry - front office -awesome Robyn- nurse- awesome Devon- nurse practitioner - awesome Jill- U/S tech very nice - awesome Dr. Carla Wells- super awesome I had a wonderful experience with Dr. Wells & her whole staff @ Dr. of women. I had a very pleasant pregnancy & I would recommend her to anyone. Prior to choosing her, I did my long research of choosing the right Dr for my 1st pregnancy. I could have chosen many other OB's and glad I made the right decision. Yes, Dr. Wells can be fairly strict with her ways of what not to do while pregnant, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Baby comes 1st! My baby came out super healthy & I look fwd. to another great experience soon

    Thank you Dr. Wells for giving us a fairytale labor and delivery!
    Vanessa C.

    Here is my story. It's long but if you want a full review of Dr. Wells I would read this... Being pregnant, I originally I went to a different OBGYN whom I felt answered my questions very generically and always rushed me out the door before I could remember any more questions. This doctor also told me she would only deliver me if she was on call the day I deliver. Keep in mind, this doctor is highly respected in Orange County. Being frustrated, I switched at 23 weeks pregnant to Dr. Wells. The first time I called Dr. Wells office to make an appointment they were about 3 weeks out. Obviously she's in demand. To me that's a good thing. I don't want a doctor with little experience and that no one wants. Wait time was about 30 minutes, same as my previous OB. First time meeting Dr. Wells she spent about 45 minutes with me. Went over all my records and even my prenatal vitamins. Long story short she told me I was deficient on iron and had a few contaminated urine tests. I was kinda shocked. my previous OB never told me to take iron nor asked if my prenatal contained iron let alone tell me I tested deficient for it! But Dr. Wells is unlike most doctors. She is thorough and reasons like this is why I switched to her. Then wishful thinking, I asked the chance of her delivering me. She said unless she's out of town or had prior obligations, there's a good chance she would be my delivering doctor. For any new mom to be, your OBGYN actually delivering you is major and doesn't happen often! Fast forward to my baby's birth, I was rushed to the hospital after my water broke at 2:30am. My fiancé just flew out on business a few hours before and I was so scared as I was waiting for him to catch a return flight. I got admitted at Hoag almost instantly. I told them please let Dr. Wells know. The nurse said they will try but informs me Dr. Wells had a very late, long and rough night and literally left a few hours ago. They told me the on call OBGYN is great too. Just my luck right? As I'm crying like a baby from contractions waiting for my epidural, in walks Dr. Wells smiling, asking me how I'm doing. I was shocked! Poor women, she probably hadn't slept in god knows how long and me, her patient of only a few months was worth it enough for her to come in when she could have easily declined. From day 1 I've told Dr. Wells I didn't want a c-section unless my life was in danger (Dr. Wells always joked back saying her either, so don't make it get to that point). Now fast forward into labor. It was very late in the day. The nurse informs me since I was pushing for almost 4 hours and my blood pressure was so high I'm automatically considered medium risk and if we didn't get this baby out soon we were probably looking at a c-section. I was horrified. But I was so tired, hadn't eaten in over 24 hours, and almost to the point where I didn't care anymore. I felt defeated and drained. I just wanted my baby delivered safety. Maybe 5 minutes after the nurse tells me a c-section might be in my future, in walks Dr. Wells and she was like nope mama, we're getting this baby out, so do this this and this. Keep in mind I didn't take 1 pregnancy class so I had no idea on breathing techniques, position, nothing. The nurses and Dr. Wells had to couch me through it all which isn't an easy task. I was a first time mom and had no clue what I was doing but I was blessed to have such a great medical team. Long story short, Dr. Wells positioned me and told me what to do and got my baby out vaginally in about 15 minutes. Such a relief and so incredibly thankful. Overall, I could not ask for a better doctor. Instead of being like most doctors and rushing me out the door, Dr. Wells takes her time and makes sure you understand the answer and actually takes the time to look over all your tests and screens to ensure you're getting the care you need. Yes, maybe there was like once or twice where I had a 45-minute wait for an appointment. But those that complain about wait time, please remember, it's probably because a first time scared out of their mind mom to be like me is asking her 100 stupid and repetitive questions.

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    Dr. Wells, one of best doctors I have even seen. Professional, patient, caring, very nice experience.

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    Had an appt scheduled with Dr Lao today when I was informed that she no longer worked there. I'm…read moresad that she's no longer there, but I hope that her career life balance are what she wants them to be cause she deserves the best. She's truly a wonderful doctor. I hope our paths cross again in the future. Blessings!

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    Great office! Workers were super nice and helped out when there were scheduling conflicts. Was made…read moreto feel super comfortable and the doctor is super nice and explains things in detail. Definitely my go to place

    I saw Dr. Diana Tran-Kim as my OB for my first pregnancy, and more or less, did not think this was…read morea good clinic. Pros: Why you'd want to go? If you plan to have a c-section exclusively and get aesthetic treatments after. Cons: After going several times, I realized this office can be disengenuous, and felt like they wanted your money more than the care. The care provided felt fake. You can tell by how bougie they look. They promote a lot of superficial services like body sculpting after pregnancy, vitamin shots, etc. You get charged for everything. And the front office doesn't always let you know this until you get sent a bill in the mail. They also would do everything they can to keep you in office, including trying to get you to schedule exclusively with their ultrasound technician, who is only there on Tuesdays. For my last ultrasound, instead of being flexible and scheduling me earlier or recommending another place for imaging, the front desk made me wait 2 weeks out for the next available appointment. By then, the tech said my baby was breech. I'm new to babies and didn't realize what that meant. I thought it meant there was time to flip him and that they would talk to me about ways to unbreech him. They otherwise just told me he was breech and did not elaborate. They also scheduled me with the nurse practitioner who also had trainees look at me without talking to me first. You can only ask so many questions. NP didn't mention anything about what a breech baby meant. Fast forward two weeks at 38 weeks. I see the doctor and she says, baby is breech and almost immediately wants to schedule a c-section. Like, whoa, I researched online and some articles say the doctor typically tells you these things starting week 30 give or take. But they went straight to the c-section. Honestly, I'm upset this was brought up so late into the pregnancy, as it could have given me more preparation time... Even mentally would have liked to have been prepared. Here, I only had two weeks to figure it out, and did not even know you had to do it before week 39..! I wasn't going to jeopardize the health of my baby and the surmounting stress of delivering so we went ahead with the scheduled C-section. But they don't care about what your outcomes are, they only care about the money. And it's really obviously that a big surgically procedure is going to pay them out way more than a natural delivery. The doctor did everything she could to convince me how good the surgery was going to be. I told her my concerns, and my biggest was the recovery that is needed with any surgery takes time. It really felt like my concerns were brushed under the rug. Also, if I wanted her to answer questions, I needed to take my partner with me, otherwise, the doctor rushed me out the door. Their office also sucks at communication. I should have taken the first red flag when I was billed for gender testing, but they chose an out-of-network lab. Not only that, they didn't tell me it was out of network. I still had to pay. And the biggest issue came when they filled out the pfml paperwork and for my work, and I had my pfml time reduced despite having a c-section. Knowing they will probably just charge me again, I didn't bother, and made sure that my time in their office after delivery was done. Months later, I'm still billed, for the hospital procedure, and other than the surgery, doctor literally only looked at me for like 5 minutes and I'm being billed, $1000+. On top of that, they upsold a silicone strip that's literally only 6 inches, and it's $80; newsflash, me: it's a fraction of the price online. RIP. I ended up calling their office one last time to close any outstanding bills, and I really wanted to laugh in their face when the admin said if I don't I wouldn't be able to come back. LOL! The assumption that I cared enough to do that. I just care about my credit score. I'm not coming back ever. Overall, I don't recommend this office for lack of sincere service, and very bad communication. For something so big like a pregnancy, I'm really disappointed and I really want to kick myself for screening this office better, and went somewhere else. This office just happened to be in the right area and the hospital that I wanted, but could have just chosen just about anybody else.

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