Dr. Karin Kirakosyan

Dr. K as she asked to be called is not professional or empathic. I went in for a physical in Jan and told her about pain on my side and dizzy spells. She told me its normal to get dizzy when I sit up and to drink plenty of water for the side pain. my lab work came back abnormal, high ulcer enzymes. She said to drink lots of water and she will check my blood in 6 months. Yet I’m still having severe dizzy spells n side abdominal pain. I never received her email regarding my lab works results. When I asked her to resend them she said she could not because the system only allows 1 email delivery per results. I’ve never heard of such a thing. I’ve been back to her four times for the same complaint and asked her to refer me to a specialist. Dr. K. was annoyed to see me back in her office and became upset and annoyed at my request to be reffered to a gastrologist specialist. She proceeded to tell me my insurance won’t cover the referral. What?! When I told Dr. K. to please let my insurance make that decision and notify me of any outside cost I may have for a specialist referral. She rudely agreed on completing the referral and stormed out of the room. It now has been 3 months since my initial request and I’m still in pain and have not received any info on the supposed referral Dr. K. completed! I feel she doesnt care for patients health or well being. It’s a shame what our health system has become.

I came in for a follow up appointment. My visit was another great experience. Dr. Kirakosyan is so patient and actually listens to what I’m saying. Ani the receptionist is very nice and always sweet. Overall I always have a great experience visiting my doctor which is very rare.

Looking for a staff who can’t turn routine bloodwork results into an Rx refill within 7+ days? Boy, have you found the right place!

Found her through my insurance’s provider list. I walted for about 45mins to see her and the doc rushed me out in 5 mins. she just didn’t have any time and patience for me to ask any questions. After I got home I called my insurance and got a better plan so I could see someone who is more responsible. Now I am paying more money for my plan but I have been getting whole another level of experience with doctors at UCLA. it’s totally worth it.

dr office was great receptionist was rudeGet ready to wait endlessly for someone to answer the phone or return calls. They don’t provide follow up calls to make sure the appointment is accurate so the day before my first visit i called to confirm. And. To my surprise my appointment was no longer on the schedule after waiting for several months and the next available appointment was 21 days away. As a cancer patient I couldn’t loose that kind of time. I am just really cautious with making any future appointments with an office who never answers or is incompetent.

Her receptionist needs to be fired! Office is disorganized. The dr. lacks empathy. She did take her time on me and wasn’t as bad as I thought. I switch dr. because I was afraid of being misdiagnosed. I just do not think people should be doctors if they lack patience and treat all these patients as if they are just numbers.

Horrible experience. I could write an entire page on went wrong in dealing with this office the 3 visits I had there.
To summarize it: Extremely long wait-​1 to 1.5 hours each visit. Unfriendly and unhelpful receptionist who only cares about collecting $ and will change you co pays on healthy office visits, knowing that they shouldn’t. Receptionist tells you one thing over the phone and different story when you get there. Doctor seems unorganized, overwhelmed and does not listen. Has no nurse to assist her or prep for her. When I mentioned my concerns/​complaints to the doctor, she pretty much told that she doesn’t need to be my doctor as she has plenty of other patients who will take my place. Complete nightmare, the most unpleasant doctor’s office experience I have ever had

Doctor K is efficient and knowledgable.
I rarely visit the doctor so I don’t mind the lack of conversation, I don’t really ask questions. I just go in for a cure for whatever ailment I may have at the time of my visit.
The front office girl, with the red hair, was really nice. I ended up losing my antibiotics prescription the day after I got it and she helped me get it refilled, no problem. (I’m sure it may have been more difficult had it not just been an antibiotic).
If you don’t frequent the doctors office and just go when it’s a necessity, I think this is a great Doctor. If you want the freedom to ask questions and discuss your treatment, look elsewhere…
Also, I love that you can park on the street for free!

The WORST RUDEST FRONT OFFICE AND DOCTOR! I don’t think they like to talk to anyone who isn’t Armenian, very racist and rude towards anyone who is not Armenian, but if an Armenian walks in they treat them like royalty but if you happen to NOT speak Armenian they don’t even crack a smile and try to give an appointment 3 months later while they only offer earlier appointments to Armenian middle eastern people. Thank you for the horrible degrading service and you should have never become a doctor, I cant even understand what you are saying half the time! Go back to Med school and take etiquette classes while your at it!

HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE!!! The doctor doesn’t seem to really care what the problem is. She’s indifferent about everything. Her staff is the most incompetent I’ve ever encountered. I never get a call back when they promise they will. It takes forever to get anything done. Because I have HMO insurance, they have to send a request for approval to insurance. Despite my plea to get it done quickly because of the pain I was in (was in a car accident), it took them 2 days just to send in the request when I was assured they’d get it done immediately. I had to call the insurance co. directly to get referral because Dr. Kirakosyan’s staff DOES NOT FOLLOW-​UP. To top it off, when I’ve called to speak to the doctor directly, I’m told that «she does not speak to patients on the phone. I’d have to make an appointment» WTH? That’s just the tip of the iceberg… they’ve been nothing but problems.

I’ve this doctor for 3 or less years, and I’ve been there about 4 or 5 times. Just reg. check up.However, when I ask her to send me to a specialist about my bad headache, she said don’t drink coffee, sleep well, don’t stress. I’m sorry, but I know it! Am I talked to doctor or to my friend? When I came the next time, I almost yelled on her, so she can send me to the specialist. Every time I make appointments, I’ve wait between 40 – 60
bee called. I’m waiting this much time, but she spends 5 min. with me.Last time was the most horrible experience with her!!! She spent 5 min. with me nearly not talk, gave me prescription for the medicine and almost kick me out from her room. When she left I’d have to ask her some questions through her assistant, because she even didn’t come out to me. Very horrible doctor, no help at all. I just waist my insurance and time on her. I’ve to find new doctor now. I can’t stay with Dr. Karine Kirakosyan anymore.(((Btw, her first name here spelled wrong.

I am super surprised by all the negative comments. Dr. K was my doctor for about 2 years until I moved out of state. She treated my husband, too. I always thought she was professional and thorough. I had good care from her. I don’t recall having to wait a long time to see her, either.

Dr. Kirakosyan is a good Doctor, but I always feel rushed when I get my appointment with her, which is unfortunate.
Her receptionist is pretty awesome and professional. I’ve called and cancelled and/​or rescheduled with no problem.
The only thing I would ask Dr. Kirakosyan is more of her TIME. I’d like to feel like I have a personal relationship with my Doctor, and with her, I don’t.

It seems to me that whoever posts a bad review about Dr. K have some kind of addiction or an anxiety problem. I have been seeing this doctor for almost 6 years and can’t cay nothing but good about her manners or her medical expertise in general. She is always available to answer my questions over the phone and always has a beautiful smile when I see her n person. I never had any issues with her plan of treatment and would highly recommend her for a family doctor to my friends.

Dr. K has the worst bedside manner I’ve ever experienced. Not only does she talk down to you for asking questions, she also rushes through your appointment. I saw her three times for a simple bacterial infection and when I applied the prescribed ointment it became worse. When I confronted her with a worsened infection she exclaimed «impossible!» and claimed that it must be my fault. Applying an ointment isn’t rocket science. She then told me that she did everything that she could do and I walked out with no attention paid to my worsened infection (this lasted for over a month). Another doctor cured it within a week. This is unfortunately one of too many experiences like this I’ve had with her. Don’t waste your time and money on this rude and incompetent doctor.

I am very shocked to see a rating of 1 star when I had a very nurturing experience with Dr. Kirakosyan. She is very accommodating and will see patients on a short notice if it is an emergency. She usually schedules people so that they won’t wait too long in the waiting room. Dr. Kirakosyan is very soft spoken, caring, and compassionate. I would highly recommend her to my family and friends!

Where to begin… I’ve seen this doctor for 3.5 years. I suffer from depression and anxiety and need on-​going care.
Once you make an appointment you wait at least an hour before being seen. They look over your accounting while you wait and if you owe anything (in my case, I owed from 3 years back some small amount that their accounting overlooked) and she wouldn’t see me until I paid. I was unemployed at the time, so it was a hardship, when normally her office sends invoices, and thus also not my error it was hers. In my chart (which i had her pull) I have a history of paying on time EVERY time. She proceeding to see me and give me the third degree. I fell and pinched a nerve and had loss of feeling in my thumb and no mobility and she rubbed my arm and gave me a really high dose of Motrin (800mg) to take 3 times a day! Which never even helped the pain. I ended up going to another doctor and within 2 days the pain was relived after dealing for weeks with Dr. K and not getting any progress.
She’s rude, hurry’s through your appointment, and will call and cancel appointments as she closes her office whenever she feels like it.

Don’t go see this doctor unless you like to be insulted, verbally abused, ignored, and mistreated.
I was hoping I’d like her; the office is close by, and I had wanted to believe that a woman doctor would be nurturing.
Close by? Yes. But I had to endure her receptionists loud radio in the waiting room while I always waited over 30 minutes to see the doc. Nurturing? NOT!!!
The first time I saw Dr. Kirakosyan she gave me the third degree and a major ‘tude about giving me a much needed prescription for migraine medicine that had been prescribed by 3 previous MD’s for the past 10 years. Without this med, my days are lost due to debilitating ice pick headaches that last sometimes 3 or more days without pharmaceutical intervention. I practically had to wrestle this doctor for the ‘script. Having to defend myself with her gave me a migraine!
Like a fool, I gave her a second chance a year later when I injured my shoulder, couldn’t lift my arm, and couldn’t sleep from the pain. My HMO at the time wouldn’t let me see a specialist until my primary– Dr. K. would give me a referral.
Instead of giving me a referral, the same doc who had accused me of being a drug addict the year before then gave me prescriptions for muscle relaxers, Vicodin, sleeping pills, and God only knows what else that left me bombed out of my mind, but never relieved the pain so that I could lift my arm without wincing. Along w/​refusing me a specialist, she wouldn’t send me in for an X-​ray or other diagnostics even though I had been in pain and my shoulder had been immobilized for weeks.
When I returned to her office the following week, informing her that my pain had not improved her pills weren’t only not working but making me want to yak, the doc just shrugged and said, «What do you want ME to do about it? I’m not a miracle worker, and you haven’t let the pills work.»
Need I say more?
I’m so glad I found new insurance so I could go back to my previous doctor.
I don’t care if she’s the last doctor on Earth, I’d rather fall off the planet than return to Dr. Kirakosyan.