Dr. Morris Nguyen was my new PCP. My first visit took place in November. Let me begin with the office experience of being the only patient in the waiting room but having to wait over an hour just to see the doctor. Once in the patient room, I would open the door that is directly in front of the nurses. Not once was I ever awknowledged standing at the door, the two nurses just kept chit chatting away. The nurse had come in several times because she kept "forgetting" to ask me some questions about my medical history. That should have been the big red flag to tell me how my future services here would be handled. After waiting for an awfully long time I meet Doctor Morris Nguyen. He tells me he will give me a referral for blood work and as I need to get to work on time, one of the "girls" will give me a call by the end of office hours that day with the referral information to my dermatologist. I waited, no call back by the end of the day. I figured hey maybe they got busy. The second day goes by, no call back, by the third day, not a single call from the office. I take it upon myself to call the office, Luke had answered the phone. I explained to him I was waiting for a call back for my referral, something I was instructed that I as the patient, would hear back about but never did. He was kind enough to assist. He set the referral up, I call the dermatologist they said it should take a few days. I called back the next week, they said they didn't receive anything. I called the office back and Luke answered again and was very kind and said he would check on the referral. Alas, a whopping two weeks later the dermatologist has my appointment. Here I am speaking with the dermatologist office and the next available appointment is two months out. You've got to be kidding me right? At this point I book it because I am to see doctor Nguyen for some lab results the following week.
My second appointment.. what a nightmare. My child is with me, my appointment is at 10am. I walk in and wait in the patient waiting area for over thirty minutes. They take me back to the room to check vitals and she shuts the door and I finally walk out to go to the bathroom and she comes in ten minutes later to take me to the actual patient room. fast forward one hour, I am still waiting. My child is getting anxious and impatient and so am I because my total wait time for a small non busy office is beyond ridiculous. I then open the door to the room i'm in, again not a single nurse cares to ask me if I need anything, they just glance an go about chit chatting away again. I ask a nurse how long it will be, she turns to her colleague and asks her, she then replies with umm.. well he's with another patient so hopefully soon. No really? You don't think I know he is with another patient. My question is literally, as in I need a quote time but the girls don't seem to care. These are the same girls "nurses" who were suppose to call me from my first appointment to provide me with the referral info. I honestly think this office is just absolutely lazy. I finally see doctor morris nguyen. My child at this point is tired of waiting and ready to sleep. I was to receive two referrals, a new dermatologist(because the original one was to be 2 months out) and a rheumatologist. he also states he will prescribe me a cream. I never received that prescription to get the cream. I leave the office with two referrals and his explanation on how he is sorry about the wait because his front office staff accepted too many walks in which reflected on my actual appointment time to be such a long wait. So what was the point of a scheduled appointment if walks in will be priorty over my appointment? this is just nonsense. But wait, it gets even better. I received my referral on the 20th. I call two days later, the office says they did not receive a referral. I called doctor nguyens office and the receptionist kevin says he will take care of it and I can call them by the end of the day. So I wait, until after Christmas on the 26th and call the dermatologist, they said there is not a single referral in my name and my doctors office has to be sending it to a wrong number. i'm baffled at this point. I call doctor nguyens office again, kevin answers and says the same exact thing. So at this point, its my second attempt. I wait until today, January 3. Exactly two weeks from when I physically received the referrals, after two phone calls to the dermatologist and after two phone calls to doctor nguyens office.Today, the office said AGAIN they do not have anything on file. No fax or email for my referral. I call doctor nguyens office and kevin answers, at this point I am requesting to speak with my pcp doctor who my insurance is paying for service, and he says he can deliver a message to the nurse who at their discretion will then let the doctor know of my request and he will decide if he wants to call back or not. WOW. DISSAPOINTING read more