She is kind, caring and really listens. I highly recommend…read moreher... She is wonderful...

I have been attempting to schedule an appointment for 3 weeks. I've done everything. Left…read morevoicemails called multiple times a day.. Can't get anyone on the phone. What a joke and waste of insurance money!

We were seen by physicians in this group, Dr T. Nair (Internist) and Dr Homayon Iraninezhad…read more(Gastro) They were both exceptional , caring efficient and well researched with compassionate care! HOAG MEDICAL GROUP has physicians that go above and beyond the call of duty! You feel you are in the absolute BEST CARE ON THE PLANET!! They are pleasant warm and welcoming! They both make you feel totally at ease even if you have an intimidating diagnosis you know they are going to do everything possible to give you the absolute BEST CARE, to give you the best outcome, They both make you feel as though, they have done everything medically and humanly possible to take care of their patients! They research all possibilities for the ones that are in their care, The clinical environment is beautifully decorated and very professional! Dr I as he is professionally known, has so many awards and was a teaching medical professor!! Dr I was recognized for his clinical leadership, teaching and compassionate care. His honors have included Intern of the Year, Resident of the Year, Chief Resident, Fellow of the Year and Chief Fellow. He also received the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award. Dr. Iraninezhad is passionate about medicine. As a person that was trained from John Hopkins graduate school of public health, I know good healthcare and excellent bedside manner and both of these physicians have those attributes. I highly recommend them!

I had a good experience here today and I want to thank Darlene for doing my DEXA screening and…read moreJeralyn for doing my mammogram on Wednesday, 4/22/26. Thank God everything is normal! The cellphone reception sucks here but the staff is great and they are very efficient and wonderful

Excellent care, listens, very knowledgeable. Responsive to requests, very professional. Usual wait…read moretimes within 10 minutes of appointment time. Would strongly recommend.

I always feel heard with I'm meeting with Dr. Krafcik. Many doctors don't take the time to really…read morelisten to their patients. She never rushes through the appointment either. She has an excellent bedside manner, is so professional and overall she's just a wonderful doctor. Her staff is friendly, helpful and very efficient. I highly recommend them!

i've been a long time patient of Dr. Maziar Zamani & like many of his patients, after he left his…read morelast location, it's been difficult to find where he moved to. His last group he was with has refused to give his patients his new contact information. I found his new location yesterday and actually made an appointment. I just wanted to share this with all of you still searching for him. He's in the black building behind his old office, and the address is 24022 Calle Dr La Plata, Suite 405, Laguna Hills, CA 92653. New Phone: (949)404-5647 So happy to be able to share this with all of you! What a fabulous doctor he is and he has openings right now, probably cause nobody can find him. Cheers!

Dr Zamani is an excellent doctor, however, the office staff is very bad. They have been giving us…read morethe run around for over a month for a simple referral for my mom. They either have a poor work ethic or are mentally incompetent and can't do the simplest of tasks. All we needed is for a referral to be faxed, they can't do anything right; literally, every step of the way, there is an issue. Plus, they lie or just disconnect the call. Save yourself the frustration and avoid this office; it's not worth it, there are other options out there. Unfortunately, we as a family will no longer be going to Dr Zamani, and will be switching. I will be telling my friends aswell whom I have referred in the past.

On the good side, Dr. Siu is personable and has good bedside manner. My problems with him were…read morethese: He gives your diagnosis with long stories leading to the diagnosis punchline, which can be interesting, but when you've brought a list of problems you're having, you might get to 2-3 of them. I'm not in great shape so I really need to go over everything in the short time that's allotted. I wrecked my shoulder pushing a 125 pound Casper box bed up a staircase. Dr. Siu didn't feel like I needed it checked, and instead told me a story about how he and his friends play competitive tennis every Christmas. 4 minutes into it he got to the punchline: They were all getting old and all had tennis elbow, which is what I now have. "Take 2 Tylenol before bed every night, cause that's all you can do." During this time, he sent me to a therapy place he (and they) swore were in my network. They had me doing all kinds of improvised nonsense without an MRI or a confirmation of what was wrong first, and of course made things worse. Went 3 times, knew it was a bad idea, quit going, then a $632 bill arrived because no matter what Dr. Siu or they said, they weren't in our network and just wanted the business. After a year of horrible pain and not being able to lift my hand higher than my shoulder, my wife scheduled an MRI. I have two 1 inch rotator cuff tears and I've needed surgery since the day I told Dr. Siu. I could almost let that slide, but near the end of 2023, I felt my job was in jeopardy, and I told his office that it'd be hard to get down there in the day for a routine checkup. They countered with, "The doctor says he's not refilling your prescriptions until you see him." I take like 16 pills every day, including heart and diabetes drugs (4 Metformin daily) that ran out of refills Nov-Dec. I told this to my new (as of 1/1) doctor who started by meekly defending the holding of my meds hostage: "Well, a doctor really shouldn't give you meds without at least meeting you." "I saw him multiple times!" "Oh! Well then, never mind..!" I won't even mention how a shirt of mine got ruined (blood) when his young staff hacked off skin tags with a dull Bic razor for an EKG ;-) Anyway, that's my novel. Probably a great doctor, but best to see him if you're already in good health.

When my mother became a resident at a board and care facility in Mission Viejo, he became her…read morephysician. All his visits were done virtually via video calls. On the positive side, he is very responsive to phone calls and did call back promptly whenever I had questions and he did spend time to discuss things. I was honestly surprised by how quickly and consistently he would get back to me. On the negative side, he was grossly overconfident in his video-call diagnosis skills and erred on the side of over-treatment even when stated family and patient goals were to be palliative. My mom had all the tell-tale signs of middle-stage dementia. He gave her a diagnosis of "mild cognitive impairment." My mom could not remember the thread of a conversation for more than 20-30 seconds. Still "mild cognitive impairment." At some point, our family discussed tweaking one of my mom's meds to help her mood. He adjusted the medication dosage up. Shortly thereafter, my mom was not able to physically get out of bed. Dr. Siu said we needn't worry. This was a known side effect of having dosed too high. We would just reduce the dose and there would be no long-term effect. It took nearly two weeks before my mom was able to get out of bed. That means she was close to paralyzed in bed for two weeks in her mid 70s. This led to the loss of almost all her remaining muscle mass. I raised this as a possible major issue. He said it was nothing to worry about. Let's be clear that muscle loss is a MAJOR issue if you expect to be able to move without assistance. The loss of muscle means you are no longer able to balance your body and prevent falling and hurting yourself. So at the end of this episode, my mom could barely walk more than a few feet on her own. He did not seem to weigh the risk of being bed-ridden and total muscle atrophy against whatever benefit a tweak in medication would make. Had we known this was a risk, our decision process would've been much different. As my mom's dementia and physical condition worsened (since she now had ZERO muscle and she was having concerning shudders, shakes, and mini seizures), we asked him about evaluating her for hospice. On the basis of a video call in which she displayed "flat affect", he told us that maybe her "flat affect," lack of balance and shudders and shakes were the result of potential Parkinson's and maybe we should take her to a specialist to see if we could get her on some kind of Parkinson's treatment. My mom did not have flat affect in person. But placed in front of a phone for a video call with someone she did not actually recognize, yes flat affect could be a thing. But when I raised this with him, Dr. Siu would not consider that family and caretaker observations might be more accurate than his video call assessment. He pushed for seeking out a specialist to investigate possible Parkinson's. I pointedly asked, "are these symptoms not ALSO a part of dementia? Does it not make more sense that dementia is the larger issue here?" He downplayed this and said "If it were my mom, I'd take her to get treatment. It could help. Couldn't possibly hurt to try to treat it." When we started with him, we were very clear that my mom's wishes and our family wishes were to err on the side of LESS treatment and less invasive medical care to reduce any possible unnecessary suffering. I then listed the ways in which taking someone with obviously bad dementia out of their comfort zone for a dizzying array of appointments, tests, and overall confusion might NOT be worth it and could be actively harmful. All this would be an enormous drain of time and energy, particularly if all the issues are more likely explained by dementia. This would be subjecting a fragile person with incontinence issues to torturous explorations for the hope of what exactly? I pushed for hospice evaluation. At this point she was already having notable trouble eating (though he could not see that through video eval). He said hospice would be unlikely to admit her because her dementia was not far along, but he would make the referral. He made extra effort to point out that once on hospice, we would close the door on any parkinson's treatment/eval. We got hospice evaluations done. Within a month she was admitted to hospice. She died of dementia within two months. I do not expect doctors to get every answer right. No human can or will get every answer right. But his overconfidence in his own assessment, dismissiveness of caretaker and family observations and preferences, and bias to over-treat at end of life was not at all comforting in an already difficult time.

My husband desperately needed a new PCP and after being disappointed with (and misdiagnosed by) the…read moreDrs. available at Hoag (for primary care), I searched for a geriatric-internal medicine doc and found Dr. Nguyen at MemorialCare (fortunately we have a PPO). My husband has multiple issues going on, and at this point I accompany him on all his appointments to make sure his symptoms and history are clearly understood. Dr Nguyen listened and ordered a series of tests, and we could not be more pleased!!!!

Best Internal Medicine doc! Smart, responsive, caring,…read moreavailable, experienced and a really nice person.

Doctor Ali Tabatabai was my mother's Doctor at Laguna Hills Health Center. I was very impressed…read morewith his tender loving care he demonstrated when he came into her room and mare his medical observations of her weekly without fail. Other Doctors were observed seated behind tgeir desks pushing paperwork & depending on Nurses observations. They never cane to see their patients unless it was a dire necesity. His Dr Tabatabai's case, he personally observed, took care of my mother weekly for tge 12 years she resided at tge heakth center and suffering from Alzeihmers besides other conditions. I was so impressed with his care that I volunteered to make him my physician. Every year I get my yearly physcals with him. Plus any other time as needed. He has a very professional staff at his cleaning who make tgeir patients their priority. They immediateley take care of you as you step in at rge reception. You see Doctor Tabatai and litsens to my concerns with kean interest. Observes. Makes his recommendations. He is a masterbin his Medical Profession. I thrust him with my life. I am so glad the guiding hand lead me to him. He gets 10+ out of 10 points in his Medical Profession.

I had fever for several days before I decided to go to the doctor Tabatabai MD he immediately wrote…read morethe x-ray order and put me on an antibiotic to get rid of the fever. he's a very considerate and a good-natured personality. I have been going to him for several years. His office staff are very friendly, and helpful.

Doctor Sweetser is the best doctor I have ever had. I have never had a medical care physician who…read moreprovides me with as much time and genuine care as she does. She actually listens to my concerns and has never once made me feel like she was in a rush to end our appointment. I'm a bit of a worrier when it comes to my health concerns and she always helps me to feel at ease and talks me through options and concerns with a patient and calm demeanor. It is very clear that the well being of each and every one of her patients is important to her and that is rare to find. I feel so grateful to be under her care and confident I am in great hands with Doctor Sweetser. To add, I'm so happy with her new location at Hoag Medical in Foothill Ranch. The lobby is beautiful, the patient suites are clean and stylish, and the service is helpful and friendly. Going to the doctor has never been more fun!

I received results from a PSA test over the weekend and was concerned (freaked out) about what they…read moreindicated. I called the Hoag answering service and was told that my Dr. wasn't on call. So I was connected to Dr. Sweetser who was. She listened patiently to my concerns and asked me what the test results were. In a soothing manner she assured me that there was nothing to worry about. If I lived near Aliso Viejo I would switch to her as my PCP in a heartbeat. Thank you Dr. Sweetser!