Christie Clinic on University

They really get you in & out of there quick! I didn’t even have the chance to describe all of my symptoms! At least the doctor seemed friendly. Hopefully their quick assessment will yield some solutions.

Updating because I have had a year of outstanding service from Dr Zabaneh and his staff. They are friendly and professional and Dr Z. Is very knowledgeable. I highly recommend he and his staff. Just for the record, I also work in healthcare, just not at Christie.

Avoid going here at any cost!
My experience actually started quite positive. I had a broken foot and my initial doctor was not sure if I need a surgery. So she sent me to one of the doctors in Christie Clinic to just look at my x-​ray and see if i need a surgery. I was there for 10 minutes and he just ask some information from me and looked at my x-​ray and told me I don’t need a surgery. A month later I received a claim for 600 dollars saying that I had a doctor visit and a surgery! Which they did not do! I filed a complaint with their business office but they said your medical record shows he did that and that (which again he did not!). Very rude and unhelpful staff when it comes to complaints!
I asked couple of other doctors in the field and they all said this is overcharging for the service they provided.
There are lots of other places in CU that can take care of your injury! Just save yourself lots of follow-​up problems with billing and go to another place!

My previous review was for Carle Hospital. Not sure how it showed up here. Please fix.

This is a horrible place. Doctors want to charge you more and do some unnecessary test like CT, x-​ray, etc. even after they have already known you are healthy.

I saw Dr. Samuel-​Parks at the Mahomet location to discuss weight loss medication. I am a veterinarian myself, and I have completed nearly identical medical education to her. I expected some level of professional courtesy, or at the very least not treating me like a layperson. Dr. Samuel-​Parks was condescending and dismissive. She told me right off the bat: «I don’t believe in diet pills.» She patronized me, told me to stop drinking sugary coffee drinks (I don’t. I hate them. I drink my coffee black. She just assumed I drink 700 calorie frappes.). She didn’t even perform a full physical on me. Then I got a bill for $ 130 for five minutes of being talked down to and a TPR. I found another doctor who actually listened to me, treated me like an intelligent person, and with a diet and exercise program and a phentermine prescription I’ve lost 20 lbs.

I don’t go to the doctor all that often but when I need convenient care and don’t want to argue the efficacy of antibiotics this is the place. My primary is here too and no hassles there either. Watch out though because they run their employees through some weird Orwellian cult crap so they will do all they can to make the doctors rich. «Building wealth» is a frickin pillar of their values. Just an FYI.

Definitely leaves a lot to be desired. Although there are some good doctors here, the receptionists have made so many serious mistakes that I don’t know where to begin. I have 6 full pages of complaints about various mix-​ups that the receptionists have made, including some who gave me bad advice or their opinion when they should just be scheduling an appointment.
The clinic on Windsor and Mattis is much cleaner and pleasant to be around than the one downtown.

This is just a review of the facility. Healthgrades is probably way more helpful in determining if any given doctor is all that and bag of pills. You can also Google them or even go to
and see if they are getting sued.
The Christie facility is well-​designed, in a good location, and well-​staffed. You can park in the main lot or you can park in the Busey lots across University if you are sly about it. MTD gets you there easily, too. You enter in through the main door and go to any of a bank of receptionists on your left in the back by the elevators. Give em your last name and your co-​pay and they’ll send you up to see the doc with your receipt. For being ‘just’ receptionists, these folks are remarkably helpful and knowledgeable about various aspects of the confusing and never fun process of getting medical care. They make it (ahem) as painless as possible. You are not alone, after typing that last one I hate myself too.
Anyway, with receipt in hand, head to the elevators and find your doc on one of the upper floors. I have never waited long at Christie Clinic, either in the waiting room or in the exam room, but there are TVs tuned to depressing daytime programming in case you do. Take care of biz w/​your doc and you’re off. If you were given a script, the pharmacy next to the door is fast, well-​stocked and seemingly pretty cheap.

This place is filthy. The doctor I had was completely negligent in correcting a problem she had created. I found a doctor in Bloomington and had to undergo surgery to correct what was done terribly wrong while I was a patient at Christie Clinic.