Dr Oliva prescribed Effexor for my menopause symptoms because I was unable to take hormones. There was never any mention that this was an addictive drug and the withdrawal from it would be a life changing experience. It has been devastating. Please research Effexor before taking it. Effexor should be taken off the market. Doctors should not be prescribing it. read more

Have to give her a one star because 0 stars isn't an option. I had been going to Dr. Olivia for YEARS and had no problems but went in for a check up, was prescribed a antibiotic (mind you I told her and asked was there anything else I can do my body does not to well with antibiotics) she said nope this is it. Well after taking just one pill on my flight to Washington DC for my 22nd birthday I landed myself right into the hospital 2 times in 2 days for severe fainting, blood pressure 60/30 something, 104 fever, was in a wheelchair for 5 days, bladder infection, severely dehydrated, not to mention my skin felt like it was eating itself. Oh the list goes on. Come to find out the was something else I could have done and wouldn't have fucking done that. Mind you when all of this was going on i called her to ask for her help, what was I supposed to do because things were getting worse. She said " I don't know go see an OBGYN" (it was 10pm on a Sunday) and HUNG UP on me!!!! Never once heard from her to this day.... AWEFUL!!! Do not recommend read more

Let me start out by saying that I am a nurse and that none of the shit at this office should be tolerated or allowed. Her receptionists have no clue what they are doing and are completely incompetent, the rooms are a total HIPAA violation because I could hear EVERY WORD of the exam going on in the room next to me, and she uses flimsy hand-made curtains to shield your naked ass from the hallway. COMPLETELY unprofessional and disgusting, really. So, I went to see Dr. Orlino in November for a simple birth control prescription that I had already from a different doctor in Southern California. When I came in she gave me four months of free samples of a different pill and told me to call when I needed a prescription to be sent to the pharmacy and it would be "no problem." About two weeks before I was finished with the samples I called her office to get a prescription. I guess they have abnormal business days because no one was in the office, so I left a voicemail. Four days went by with no response. So, I called the office again and the receptionist and she said that "she would have to talk to the doctor and call me back." Surprise! No one called me back. Then, I called the next day and she said the doctor was not there, even though it was during normal business hours, and that nothing could be done until next Tuesday. I called again the next week, left more messages with the receptionist, left more voicemails, but still no prescription. Great, now I have no birth control. Luckily, I had one more refill left at CVS, so I still had one more month. So, I decided to keep trying to get a prescription and called the office again. The receptionist, who clearly has no freaking clue what the hell she's doing, told me that since the prescription I wanted was an IUD, another doctor had to do it. What the fuck? I asked for Loryna, a birth control PILL, NOT an IUD you complete idiot. Confused, she said that she thought Loryna was an IUD. So, not only had she not LISTENED to my phone calls telling her that I needed my birth control PILL, she also probably ignored all of my voicemails. What kind of business is this? Apparently, one that doesn't listen to their patients, ignores their phone calls, and has no knowledge of medical terminology or typical prescription names. Do NOT go here unless you want to talk to a doctor that has been bought out by pharmaceutical reps and cannot and will not prescribe you anything but their products (which even the best insurance won't cover, by the way). Complete waste of my time and money. read more

I got in quickly, not much of a wait! Dr Oliva was professional and thorough, also kind. So far so good!

Very satisfied and happy with my choice to come here for my fourth pregnancy. Dr Oliva is a down to earth and straight forward doctor. She has been delivering babies for over 30 years. As long as you are healthy and not a high-risk patient I would recommend Dr. Oliva. For me, I have already done this successfully three times, and jut need a doctor to guide be through te process once more. Dr Oliva has been nothing but professional and thoughtful to me through my pregnancy and we are now on our seventh month. read more

This place is a joke!!! Not only did I get charged for the one visit I wasn't able to show for last minute $103!!!! Apparently I also signed a paper agreeing to pay $140 to send MY chart notes from their office to a local office!!! SERIOUSLY!!! Who pays to have their own medical charts sent!! They are my health records. Unreal! Robbery! Seriously I just want to cry! I don't have money to just throw at unnecessary bills! read more

Wow...Where to begin? I went to Dr. Oliva with some "female problems" -- fibroids causing issues, etc. She was cold, totally uncaring, dropped the possibility of cancer on me like it was nothing and seemed annoyed that I got scared. She also seemed annoyed when I asked her some very natural questions -- actually checked her watch with a frown. Her answers to my questions were completely unsatisfactory and left me more confused than informed. She just seemed to want to rush me into the idea of a hysterectomy. She has to have the worst bedside manner of any doctor I've ever seen in my life, and I've seen a few! I am now hunting for a second opinion, as I really don't want to go back to her, EVER. read more

I dont even know where to start. She was the worst doctor I have ever dealt with in my life. If it hadnt been for dr oliva's lacking care for the severity of the complications I had during my pregnancy my son probably woild have made it past 24weeks and would probably be alive today. My complications started very early on, 7 1/2 weeks, I went to the er, was told everything was fine, I was bleeding but the baby seemed fine, a week later was my first apointment. At that apt I was rold that I had miscarried a twin, but the other baby was perfectly fine, nit to worry. When hospitalized at 21 weeks due to the fact that I was bleeding to death she told me that I had a placental abrubtion that she told me about in my first apt, and had been updating me on it every apointment. Never had she mentioned a placental abruption, instead every time I went in scared I was losing my son because id be bleeding she would make up an excuse. EVERY TIME. My contractions started aroind 16 weeks, she said it wasnt contractions, just gas. I was admitted into st Elizabeth's in red bluff at the end of my 19th week, I was contraction every 5-15 minutes. I went into see her the next day, she said not to worry, its probably just braxton hix. I was outraged. I would leave her office with out answers, so she blatantly told me that if it is contractions theres nothing she can do, I needed to just go home and wait and see if I miscarry or not. And if I start to, not to even bother calling her office just go to the hospital, they could deal with it there. She didnt believe me that I was passing blood clots the size of my hand, she just shrugged me off. I was hospitalized that night, severely bleeding out, in the hospital she was even worse. She convinced me that my son had no chance of being born alive (he was) and she would tell me one thing, leave the room and do the oppsite. She didnt want to deal with me. She transferred me to ic Davis while I was wayyy too unstable, and changed my due.date just so she could get rid of me as a patient. No joke I have nightmares about this woman and how horrible of a person she is. She had horrible bad side manner and would get irritated about me asking questions about my own health. Please, if tou care about yourself and the well being of your unborn child, DO NOT GO TO THIS HORRIBLE WOMAN. NO ONE DESERVES WHAT SHE PUT ME THROUGH. read more

one of the WORST doctor experiences I've ever had. I'm 38 weeks pregnant and I came for prenatal care. I got there at 12, my appointment was at 12:30. I wanted to get there early because it was my first appointment here and I knew there'd be paperwork. Got called back at 12:30. The nurse was super sweet and kind. She said the doctor would be there at 1 and told me to get undressed and put the gown on. I put the gown on at 12:55, sat and waited until 1:40 for her to even show up. She was running late which is understandable, I was not rude but instead, she was rude to ME! We went over my medical and family history. I had turned down my glucose test and she was rude and sassy to me about that and made faces about it, like as if I'm stupid. She was going to do my group B strep test and I told her I did not want her to check my cervix for dilation because it causes cramping and I did NOT want that, she said "I have to" and did it anyway. I did NOT give her consent to do this, and I cried out in pain. Then she said I had a lot of discharge so they had to do a Pap smear. She used a speculum which shouldn't have been done during pregnancy, they can do it without a speculum. I cried out in pain even more and she continued to do the test. After all of that she did the group b strep which is the ONLY test I wanted done originally. I couldn't stop crying. I felt violated. I told them at the front desk that I don't want to see her again because she did a test against my consent. They said it's fine... it's not fine. That's assault. It hurt and it was horrible. She was rude to me and her nurse which is completely unnecessary. read more

I have been going for years , every time I wait over a hour to see her. There is no follow up done by the staff you have to call and get test results , apt etc. read more

Dr Oliva was cold, rough and vindictive. I say cold because she showed no compassion, empathy or even basic professional connection. From 34 weeks she started to push for scheduling a hospital stay for induction, despite the fact that I had specifically requested not to be induced on three occasions. The young receptionist is a sweet and caring girl she does her best to make up for the interpersonal short comings of dr Oliva. However, medically Dr Oliva is rogue, she swept my membranes without my consent during a physical examination. When I challenged her about it she made no apology for her intrusion into my body and right to choose for my delivery. At my husbands request I followed her medical advice and did schedule an induction when told to, however this was after she told me I'd greatly regret not following her advice sooner. My daughter was born at 3:23am, the nurses called Dr Oliva when they realized that I was in constant pain on the pitocin and despite increasing dosages was making no progress for 3 hours at 8.5cm. Dr Oliva had gone home despite the fact that she had insisted that I schedule my induction at a time she was on duty at Mercy. The nursing staff at Mercy were incredible, but I was left with the option of a c-section and there were no staff on duty including my own doctor. In hind sight, if Dr Oliva had simply looked at the ultrasound she ordered for me just a few days before my induction she could have seen that the fullest part of my daughters head was stuck in the narrowest span of my pelvis making a natural delivery impossible. Having sneered at my avoidance of pain killers, i endured 18 hours of pitocin enhanced back labour completely unneccesarily. While my husband scrubbed in for the section, Dr Oliva berated him stating that "this is all your wife's fault" referring to the need for a c-section. My daughter was induced just 7 days after her due date which according to Dr Oliva was a problem being that she wanted to schedule an induction the day after her due date and insisted that I had waited too long for labor to begin spontaneously. When I returned to have my staples out she asked me how much of my pain relief I'd taken to which I informed her that I wasn't taking it and felt I was recovering well with little pain. Dr Oliva said "you're going to regret that" and proceeded to yank at the staples, which naturally was going to be pretty tender. I have a healthy baby girl, the c-section was performed adequately well, but every other marker of professional behavior escaped Dr Oliva, she is rude, cold, rough during physical examinations and does not value patients wishes or require their consent to perform procedures. I am currently pregnant again, I will not be returning to Dr Oliva, I had hoped for better from a female obgyn, clearly a woman's right to choose for her body doesn't extend to the business of giving birth! read more

the worst patient care i have ever received! i went for a laser liposuction consultation and she didn't even ask me what areas i wanted done. she didn't ask if i had any questions and her receptionist was rude and insulting. she might be one of the only doctors in redding to offer laser lipo but please do yourself a favor and drive to the bay area or even LA to get the work done. there are plenty of places that offer more professional and courteous care. and do you really want to get plastic surgery from a doctor who can't even show you before and after photos of previous patients?? read more