When i first met Dr Karimi I thought he was wonderful. I was a little upset that we waited about an hour to finally be seen, but I understand and love the fact that he spends time with his pts and doesnt rush. He was very kind and caring, and seemed to be the real help I had been searching for for my teenage daughter.......BUT then he schedules her for her second visit. HE HIMSELF wrote on the appointment card that he handed to me 11:45 am. SO, the day of the appt, my husband gives up working overtime to stay home with our toddler, I (who work midnight shift) give up on getting sleep for that morning, AND I pull my daughter out of school to go to this appt...again that Dr Karimi scheduled us for. We walk in the office at 11:45 to be told" Oh the Dr doesnt even walk in the door until 5 pm." " This is just the way the Dr does it- he will give you an early appt time, but you have to wait until 4 pm to call and find out what time you can come in" WHAT????!! This was so obsured I really thought it was a joke! First of all WHO DOES THIS?! Why would he tell me to come to an appt at 11:45 when he knows damn well he wont even come into the office until 5pm!! And the office staff was so rude just saying'well someone shouldve told you about it-this is the way he's done it for years. Well, HE HIMSELF couldve been courteous enough to explain this screwed up way of running his office when HE handed me an appt time that DID NOT EXIST! So, then I go ahead and call after 4pm. The woman tells me ok you can come in at 7:30. Well, knowing how long we will wait, and the fact that I have to leave for work at 9 pm, there was no way I could come in at that time. So she says, ok well I put down that you have to miss this appt, and well, hes booked up for another month. So, now Im wondering if they are going to charge me the fee for a misse appt, when i did in fact come for my appt at 11:45 when i was told that was my appt time. So the real kicker is when I said well can i just leave a message for Dr Karimi to call me. I cant wait another month to talk to him about the medication he put my daughter on, I have some questions and some real concerns. The very rude woman on the phone says" Oh he wont call you. He doesnt do that." She says" you can leave a message but he'll just have me call you back, he doesnt talk to his pts on the phone." Again I say WHAT?! What Psychiatrist refuses to speak to his pts on the phone, and not return phone calls?! Is this really true of him or is it just his extremely rude office staff giving me the run around? I will never know because I cant get in touch with the man!! So he puts my teen daughter on some potentially dangerous medications for the Bipolar diagnosis he had given her, and then if I have concerns about i=how it is affecting her I cant just call and talk with him? Oh my Lord! I thought he was wonderful, but maybe I was just foled my his charisma. And now i even question his diagnosis he gave my daughter. I mean. if this is how he runs his office, then I have absolutely no faith in him as a doctor!! read more