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Kern Radiology

2.3 (86 reviews)
Open • 8:30 am - 5:30 pm

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The paper they gave me on the day of my appointment that states my mri report would be ready after 4 days.

At my MRI appointment on June 8th, 2026 I received a paper with a code on it that states I would receive my mri REPORT within 4 days (not the images). It has now been 8 days and I still have no report and had to cancel my doctors appointment today to follow up about my mri due to not having the report. If the report is not going to be ready within 4 days, you should not give patients a paper with a code stating that the REPORT will be ready within 4 days. Also, I was scheduled for a mammogram on June 8th as well. In my patient portal it says that I was to have said mammogram. I never had it done, it was never brought up to me while I was there and after waiting 4 1/2 hours for my MRI (because I was told my appointment was at 6:50am, but it wasn't not. It was scheduled for 7:10am and the building doesn't even open until 7am. So I was taken off the schedule "for being late" and had to sit there with my 4yr old for 4 1/2 hours for a mistake in YOUR END after driving all the way from Lake Isabella) I was in so much pain that I didn't even remember the mammogram was scheduled, but it was on YOUR schedule, so it should have been brought up to me by staff and it was not. Again, in my patient portal it says I was scheduled for it. All in all, every experience I have had with Kern Radiology since my appointment on June 8th has been awful and if I can help it, I will never use you guys again.

This facility is very clean. Wow.
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This facility is very clean. Wow. I had a Ct and an MRI and all involved were kind, gentle and efficient. In and out in 45 minutes total I left my glasses in there and didn't realize until I got in my car and started to drive away. If they were not Dolce and Gabbana, I would've just left them and not worried about it. I walked back in in the kind seller at the front desk said are you here for your glasses? I said, "Are they purple Dolce and Gabbana?" And we both laughed.

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Getting as appointment there is very difficult, but the people working there are very kind and professional.

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“Here on Stockdale, my appointment was at 8:00 and I was out by 8:50 after an ultrasound and a mammogram was done.”

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First time here, it's a small place very nice clean. They didn't take long to get me inn the…read moreimaging took much longer but over all happy with there service. If needed to come back here I would most likely come back.

They wanted me to take off all of my clothes and my titanium earrings to have an MRI done. I have…read morehad about six MRIs in the last two years and I've never had to undress down to nothing nor have I had to take out my titanium earrings out the only thing I had to remove was my hearing aid. This is a magnetic scan and it can pull metals, but it does not burn you. If it burns you, you couldn't have the titanium implants that are inside your body go through an MRI machine without getting burned or injured so it doesn't make sense that this place makes you undress completely naked, I guess wear a gown. then you have to walk through a room with a whole bunch of technicians who are male and female where I'm sure they could see your bare ass from the back of the gown. Because as we all know, they don't close up in the back. It puts you in a very vulnerable situation along with severe exposure to a group of total strangers who are not doctors or a hospital. It is absolutely disgusting and horrific that they would make you undressed down to nothing for a plain image. So if you don't want to undressed and be naked, don't go to the radiology on 1818 16th St. in Bakersfield. There are other radiologist facilities that do not make you undressed completely for any kind of image taking. Stand your ground and demand that they do not do this so don't give them your business at that facility.. You should not ever have to get completely naked for a radiographic imaging ever.! I wish I could give them a negative 1,000,000.. The staff is horrible too, not friendly and they run late. There were people they're still waiting that had appointments 30 minutes before mine..

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If I could give Kern Rad ADVANCED on 16th Street (which I consider downtown) 10 stars, I would…read more Every single employee whom I have had the most distinct pleasure of interacting with on a personal, as well as professional level, was precisely that...PROFESSIONAL. Not to mention kind, courteous, helpful, and willing to answer any and all of my questions, observations, and input. My recent experience at the MRI facility downtown was STUPENDOUS! I really mean that in ALL sincerity!! STUPENDOUS. Erica and Liz treated me like I was their mother. Respectful, kind, offering assistance whether needed or not, very communicative regarding my safety, i.e., the floor sloping, the upraised copper threshold leading in to the MRI room, and even where the bar was on the MRI machine - guiding my hand to grab it for my safety. UNHEARD OF PROFESSIONALISM THIS DAY AND AGE. As far as the reviews I read that have few stars, after I read them, I honestly couldn't fully understand what the review was trying to convey. Was it because of the lack of education regarding sentence structure, vernacular, proper grammar, punctuation, stream of consciousness when attempting to write an ENGLISH sentence to convey to the reader just what the writer means??? Oh gosh, you got me... WTF? Where did these people go to school? In the United States...oh, yes, most assuredly - or hey, maybe not? Who the HELL knows these days? I even had the speechless experience at a local medical office when the MA who took my blood pressure admitted they did not know what the word OCCASIONALLY meant - and most assuredly, did not have any idea how to spell it. This is an absolute TRAVESTY! (Ok ya'll, look that word up if you don't know what the hell it means...). There's no shame in educating yourselves to better communicate using ENGLISH - GOD FORBID!!! And, I speak SPANISH, too. Such a beautiful language, as well as people. STOP criticizing others who speak a different language if you do not understand what they mean!!!! ASK THEM to explain what the hell they are trying to say to you and WHY! That is YOUR responsibility!! NOT THEIRS. Oh, good grief - here I go again about PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY! Might just try it on for size and find out just how many wonderful people there are around you trying to help you, even in your indignancy, who speak a different language. I most certainly do when someone says a SPANISH word to me that I do not know. I say, "No intiende!" (GET THAT! I am TEACHING MYSELF SPANISH!) And if I do it, you can teach yourselves better English grammar, spelling, sentence structure, stream of consciousness - and the like...and YES, I WAS an ENGLISH MAJOR in college. There is absolutely NO EXCUSE when it comes to educating yourself to better communicate in ANY LANGUAGE. NO EXCUSE.

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My spine, checking the lumbar and the nerves.

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Getting the girls checked ha ha

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