I have issues with gout and Lianne was finally able to effectively control the flares up I was…read morereceiving. Other doctors didn't actually take a blood sample from me so they were treating me with the wrong medication. She explains things in a manner that is easy to understand and is open to any questions. I highly recommend this doctor if you have rheumatic related health issues.

Dr Gensler is an excellent doctor. I have been seeing her a few years now. She is…read moreknowledgeable, compassionate and takes the time to explain and answer my questions. She has been managing my AS for a few years and recently I had some pretty distressful flares. She was amazing, seeing me right away and helped get the pain under control quickly. She is also always on my chart (online) and answers your e-mail in between appointments. Another thing I love about seeing Dr. Gensler is she runs study groups and is on the cutting edge of new happenings and this gives her a edge over other doctors I have seen in the field. The front office is good, and I appreciate the on time appointments. I highly recommend Dr Gensler if you have Rumatology needs!

I had been seeing Dr. Magnano for 10 years, and my condition was stable, so when she moved to…read moreconcierge medicine, I stopped seeing her. Then, of course, I developed a new condition. After seeing three doctors for my "new" condition and not getting to answers, I decided to go back to Dr. Magnano. In one office visit, she had a hunch about my new condition that none of the other doctors considered. Within two weeks of being a concierge patient of Dr. Magnano's, I had a diagnosis and a treatment plan. As a concierge patient, she called doctors to squeeze me in for testing, she helped me get an MRI and 3 Phase Bone Study within days, and I had her number so I could text her updates, so we could make moment by moment decisions as we received the results of tests. It turned out I have a rare condition that left other doctors confused; however, Dr. Magnano moved with vision. I felt as if I had just handed off to her all the thinking about what my condition could be, and it was up to her to figure it out instead of me. What a relief! If you need a doctor who is smart, knowledgeable, compassionate, and goes the extra mile for you, then don't hesitate to become one of Dr. Molly's patients.

Dr. Molly Magnano is so very knowledgeable and masterful in her treatment and care. Several…read moreprecision cortisone injections to various parts of my body were very effective, as well as almost painless - particularly compared with prior experience with other practitioners. She takes the time to address her patients' concerns in complete detail and beyond. Words alone are insufficient to express my gratitude for this empathetic and exceptional physician.

Outstanding physician. I've seen many rheumatologists in different cities and states, several in…read moreSan Francisco. Only one I've been under the care of (in Los Angeles) is her peer in knowledge and clinical skills. Not surprisingly he knows Dr. Carteron. Dr. Carteron is truly interested in her patients as people and takes as much time with her patients as required. Consequently, one might have to wait a while in her waiting room (well-stocked with interesting magazines and medical books). Dr. Carteron has an excellent referral network of specialist physicians.. She also has the nicest, most organized administrative assistant, James, of any doctor I've seen in San Francisco.

Dr. Carteron may be a good physician but her insurance acceptance is from the Dark Ages…read more I called earlier this week as she was recommended and got an email from her assistant that I would have to agree to certain terms and payment plans and return that email agreeing to pay in cash because she only takes Medicare. Everyone else has to put up a minimum of $700 cash just to see her and then good luck getting anything back from your insurance company. Plus that's just the first appointment --- it goes on and on if you want to see her again She may be good but is obviously only interested in the money $$$ and not the patient.

Caring, emphatic and knowledgeable, what a great combination. Dr. Antoniucci stays current and…read moreis thorough.

Love this Doctor...she's super knowledgeable..explains things very well.. gives you all the…read moreoptions...plus shes very easy to communicate with; warm and friendly.

Wow, I've been around the block quite a few times now across the Bay Area healthcare system, caring…read morefor my multi-generational family, and Dr. Ruiz is sure a winner--he really takes the cake! If there were a way to request my money back from Pacific Rheumatology Associates, I would. So come take a ride of absurdity with us... and Dr. Ruiz will take you all the back to "The Sixth Sense"! When Dr. Ruiz first walked in, I mentioned that we had a few questions for him that I'd neatly typed out and enumerated in advance to facilitate the conversation, along with a set of relevant records that I'd brought. He didn't even glance at the questions or the records--or pretend to. This was a first even among the many harried UCSF doctors whom our family has seen. (At one point later, he exclaimed, "I don't see the MRI!" I then directed him to the MRI report in the records that we had carefully printed out and brought... that he had in turn ignored two minutes earlier.) We'd come to him with two presenting issues, possibly related. He asked about the first one, and every time I tried to explain Issue #2 by IDing the multiple joints that had been impacted, he would revert back to the Issue #1. In other words, he never even made space for us to discuss 50% of the symptoms--a master of a detailed intake, no doubt. We'd gone in asking for a second opinion, especially re: Issue #2, which had confounded multiple other specialists. He saw that we'd spoken with another rheumatologist, and his overall mien was, "What are you doing here if you already have a diagnosis?" It's as if his brain could not wrap itself around the apparently shocking fact that folks in chronic pain may want to get a second opinion before embarking on an intensive treatment of upwards of $300/month. He insisted that the treatment for Issue #1--designed to treat arthritis--could solve for Issue #2 if it was also caused by arthritis. "It may not always show up in X-rays. You have to get MRIs." As we'd mentioned in the questions that I'd shared with him (yes, the ones he refused to review), I explained that we _had_ gotten MRIs (also indicated in the list of questions I'd brought as well as in the records, neither of which he'd reviewed, as I said earlier), and the MRIs revealed no arthritis. So his insistence that an arthritis treatment could solve for the other issues was patently untrue. "Just take the treatment (for Issue #1), and then you'll know if they're related!" Exasperated, I tried to ask if at least he had any other hypotheses as to what would be driving the history of bilateral issues and pain that had ensued and never remitted since 2020. He could have just said a straightforward "no," but instead he waxed on impatiently about the arthritis treatment as a diagnostic tool, which we'd already established prior to the conversation. I tried asking again, but his bizarre and dismissive dodging of a remarkably straightforward yes/no question was straight up rude, as if he couldn't be bothered with a patient question. About 7 or 8 minutes in, I gave up on gleaning any scintilla of value from our conversation with Dr. Ruiz. He then stepped out of the room and came back with a couple of brochures and a printout of the condition--information that any third grader with reading skills and a laptop could have found online. Out of politeness, I thanked him nonetheless for the zero value he had provided. (In retrospect, I'm not sure why I was thanking him for treating us with dismissiveness and impatience in the 8 minutes that our health insurance company and we will have paid in the upper hundreds for.) Then--and, oh, this has got to be the BEST part, everybody--he just walked out of the room. Wordlessly. No "you're welcome." No "have a great day." Not even a mere "bye" or a wave. It was as if we suddenly no longer existed, and he could not be bothered to lower his jaw to utter a syllable to at least acknowledge our presence and signal his departure. In the decades that we've been working with doctors, this was a first! It was very "The Sixth Sense": We'd suddenly become Bruce Willis, and he was definitely not Haley Joel Osment. The effort it would have taken to eke out this baseline level of civility apparently was far too overwhelming. Needless to say, the way he treated us was rude, dismissive, and borderline unprofessional. I would recommend seeing him as much as I would recommend getting a root canal--except the root canal would probably prove more useful.

Office staff is rude and unprofessional, girl called security on me because I told her she was rude…read moreand I was going record our conversation to let the doctor hear what her service is like, Office manager just as bad, no compassion or kindness for customers. I won't be back sorry doctor.

I saw Dr. Aggarwal once in early 2022 and had a terrible experience, and moved on immediately…read more(found an amazing rheumatologist at UCSF) and was ready to forget the entire experience. But I recently have been bombarded by emails from this practice informing me of their new "concierge" model, which costs a whopping $4000/yr, so I decided to throw my review in the ring just in case anyone was tempted to actually pay such an absurd amount. In a word: don't. I saw Dr. Aggarwal when I was newly diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis and was in the middle of a very painful flare. I was scared and in pain and desperate for answers and compassion, and got neither from her. Her lack of bedside manners was astounding. She was cold and uncaring. When she examined me, despite the fact that I'd just told her that my wrists were extremely painful, the first thing she did was roughly grab my wrist and gave it a hard twist. I yelped and pulled my hand away, and she just stood there staring at me blankly saying nothing. At one point she looked at my face and asked "Do you always look like this?" Like.... What?! I literally left that office in tears and immediately found a different doc. TL;DR: Don't go here. Check out UCSF rheumatology. They actually make me feel validated and cared for.

(This review is from my wife.) I first saw Dr. Aggarwal in May 2024 regarding stiff joints,…read moredifficulty in moving, etc. Dr. Aggarwal came in and addressed me in a professional manner and asked me about my and my family's medical history. She examined me and speculated that I might have an autoimmune disease. She wanted me to take blood tests to confirm. Once it was confirmed what I had, she sat me down and went over all my options as to how I could deal with this problem. She was entirely professional, caring and realistic when she was explaining her part in my treatment. I personally prefer when a doctor is factual and to the point when it comes to my medical condition. And that's exactly how she was with me. Dr. Aggarwal is a good all around doctor. Next, let's talk about Dr. Aggarwal's front office staff. Specifically Gemma (Reception), Yasmine (Manager) and Stephanie (MA). They are very professional, efficient and fast. These women run the front office very well. They are not a staff that wastes your time being overly friendly, cute, humorous and otherwise involved in useless banter. For example, when the doctor has ordered certain tests or referrals through her staff, the response is very prompt because of the efficiency of these women. My reason for staying and writing a positive review is 50% Dr. Aggarwal and 50% her staff. Jannette GW

This place is a circus run by clowns…read more I wasted a month trying to get an appointment. They asked for referrals and documents to be sent from my primary, which I sent. They kept scheduling appointments with their "scheduler" who would tell me to wait a week and call back. Finally after a month and three appointments with the "scheduler" they told me they're not accepting new patients.

Absolutely impossible to get an appointment. Since the rheumatologist at St. Mary's was acquired…read moreinto UCSF it takes 6 to 8 months to get an appointment. NO way to get medication. No way to get help. Horrible.

A wonderful, kind, caring and knowledgeable physician. She is definitely a person to trust with…read moreyour care. She will do her best to heal you.

There aren't enough stars available here. I've never had an experience like this with a doctor and…read moreI'm 70 years old. Irene was excedingly knowledgable, inquisitive, thorough and omg, she was not in a rush. I've never felt like my well being was so important to a physician. I found Dr. Minkowsky doing a google search and I can't believe how lucky I am.

I had seen a good internist for 25 years who sold his practice to Discover Health. After one short…read moreterm primary left, another took over. She was completely excellent. However, it is my belief she was not adequately paid or treated well which is a shame because she was extraordinary. We got a notice that the entire practice was being shut down to go find a new Primary Care Provider within a month or so. I do not recommend Discover Health. cant count on it

My wife and I have been seeing Dr. Natasha Agbai and the team at Discover Health for our son since…read morehe was born 14 months ago- so this review is long overdue! It really is impossible to put into words how wonderful our experience with this team has been. Dr. Agbai is patient, kind, and compassionate to all the struggles, unknowns, and anxieties we have faced as first time parents. At every turn, without exception, the entire team at Discover Health has been right there with us: guiding us, giving us advice, and exploring options together. If you're considering Discover Health, we cannot recommend them highly enough. This practice has consistently been above and beyond anything we could have hoped to find for our family, and we feel so fortunate to have found them. One last thing: I can't possibly end this review without giving additional praise to Dr. Castelli and Dr. Herbsman for all their on-call replies to us as well. Thank you!!

Dr Chaganti is not only an amazing doctor but a kind compassionate person. She truly wants to get…read moreto the bottom of things and cares. She takes her time to make sure everything is covered and you understand everything. I and my husband would very strongly recommend her!

Dr Chaganti is the best. So very knowledgeable, so thorough, kind and communicative. She treats me…read moreas a full human being and never talks down to me. Yes, she can be hard to see, but that's because she's so good. (And because Covid has hobbled just about everything, including UCSF.)