Prasanna Menon MD

We went there initially and while i wasn’t super impressed with th first and second visit we decided, it was just enough post that.
Cons: —
1) Does not bother to look at what tests she ordered or was done on the patient even though she has the test results in front of her.
2) She talks in medical terms where most of the time i am gaping at her or doing a google search to find what the hell she was saying.
3) She says one thing now and something else at the next appointment.
4) She will ask us to take a test and then ask us why did we take it?
5) Front desk is as disorganized as any one can be.
I am glad we found another OBGYN.

I looooove her. She was my obgyn for my first pregnancy. My birth experience was fabulous and it is completely due to Dr Menon. She was very respectful of my choices but also told me when I was wrong. She is well informed and very competent. I was induced and was worried about being rushed. She was very patient with me. She let me labor for as long as I wanted without any unnecessary interventions.
During my monthly visits she would give me tips which I found quite useful. She is a bit unconventional in the way she speaks sometimes but she genuinely seems to care. The advice seems to come from a good place. There are some delays in the waiting room but that said if I decide to have another I will be back waiting for Dr Menon.

Dr. Menon is a very wise and good doctor. She is the doctor who correctly diagnosed my condition of endometriosis. If it weren’t for her, I would have wasted many more years in the dark. I am truly grateful for her. As for her not spending enough time or not knowing her patients, I find that also not true at all. She recognized me after years not seeing her, because she left Camino Medical Group, and I couldn’t continue to see her.

We have seen Dr. Menon for first few months of my wife’s pregnancy and our experience has not been good. We started seeing her on a recommendation of our friend who helped her deliver her baby 10 years ago.
The main problem with her is that she takes in too many patients and consequently she spends too little time with each patient. We see her once a month and each time she spent no more than 10 minutes with us (except for very first visit). She checks the heartbeat, but does not tell us how much the beats per minute is, unless we explicitly ask. She checks the fundal height, and gives no indication of what the number is. She is always in a hurry from the time she steps into the room. Her answers to the questions were most often a single word or sentence with no explanation. It feels embarassing for us to ask for more details for every question. And yes, like a lot of other reviewers pointed out, you are stranger to her every time you visit her, and she does not even read the test results properly before entering the room. Couple of times I had to remind her that some of the test results she thought are still pending are already available, even though they were right in front of her on the first page. She has never discussed any of the test results properly with us, and we have to get our own copy to interpret the results ourselves based on google search.
Anyway, we have now switched away from Dr. Menon after 20 weeks of pregnancy and are happy with our new obgyn who spends some more time to clear apprehensions of first time parents.

I’m surprised at the negative reviews for Dr. Menon. She has given excellent care for both my wife’s pregnancies. In my first daughter’s case, the labor was very long. When she finally came out, the umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck, and her oxygen was dropping. Dr. Menon’s lightning quick response saved the situation and she deftly unwrapped the cord with the baby partially out, and quickly delivered my daughter. I believe she turned what could have been a terrible situation (oxygen deprivation, potential brain damage) into a minor hiccup.
Yes, I had to wait with my wife past the scheduled appointment time several times. But come on — she’s a doctor with babies to deliver, so that’s to be expected. And yes, she gave us advice unprompted, but we thought it was really good advice and we were thinking it would be nice if we could go to there just for advice.
But I will tell you this — given what I saw her do in the delivery room with my first daughter, there is no one else on the planet I would want to be delivering any of my children other than her.

I have known Dr. Menon for 30 years. Extremely caring and calm doctor.

I recently started to see Dr Menon and really have liked her. I went to her for the Mirena IUD.
She can be a bit informal (eg. making off handed comments on generalities of having a boyfriend vs a husband) which caught me off guard at first because I was more used to the dispassionate /​formal type of MD who would never make a comment about one’s life outside of the clinic that could be misinterpreted. But her manner is light and friendly, and to me it makes her seem like a real person, so I ultimately found it endearing and refreshing.
I also found her to be compassionate in a non-​invasive way, which I think is a really hard balance to strike. Two examples of this :
1) because I have not had children, the IUD insertion was somewhat painful for me. After the procedure Dr Menon rested her hand on top of my belly and took a longer time to calmly talk me through what to expect — my sense was that she was doing it to comfort me as much as for the information. And, as she said, within ~10 min after the procedure I was not in any pain and I have loved the IUD.
2) I’m a 35 yr old woman who doesn’t want kids and isn’t married. Dr Menon raised the topic of children in a way that did not feel intrusive. She said that many times we are so busy running around in our lives that we don’t think we want children until it is too late. She encouraged me to set aside time sometime in the next year to get away by myself, have a weekend of quiet, and think about what I want. She wasn’t prescriptive, didn’t say that I’d suddenly realize I want kids or anything, she just said that it’s important to give yourself that time and space to consider what you really want, and the answer will become clear. I was struck by the compassion in this — she voluntarily brought up a topic that risks offending someone or making someone upset, but she brought it up so that I would be fully informed. She encouraged me to figure out what I wanted and what was right for me. I thought it was really above and beyond to proactively address a topic that I hadn’t raised but that might be relevant to me later, and she did it without pushing or preaching. Just very brief, matter of fact, and caring.
Highly recommend her!

I am a patient of Dr Menon and I like her a lot. She was always nice and respectful to me. She also taught me a lot of things about my body… which any OBGyn ever told me before!
She has been really helpful on many matters and she always called me back very fast with tips, and prescriptions — when needed.
What I really like is that Dr Menon is always aware of the latest available books, apps, meds, tips etc.
Her staff is nice, friendly and knowledgeable too.
I used to have some problems with their billing system but they have been taken care of.
I am very happy to have found Dr Menon and her staff.

After seeing a couple negative reviews on Dr. Menon, I feel it is my MORAL obligation to defend her, not because she is my doctor, but it is MORALLY the right thing to do.
Let me first tell you that I am an extremely hard case — never pregnant at an advanced maternal age pushing 40 (back then), precancerous uterus, gestational diabetes when I did finally get pregnant, and a relapse of my precancerous condition. Without Dr. Menon, I would not have held my very first, very cherished biological baby in my hand. She was the captain of my ship when I sailed through all this darkness fighting for my unborn child and my health, and after all these years, I can only say I am honored to have her on board.
Our relationship dated back to 2007 when I just got married and tried to conceive. After a series of detailed workup, I was diagnosed with a severe pre-​cancerous uterine condition which typically called for hysterectomy right away. At 38, childless, you could only imagine how desperate I felt at that point. She worked with me on conservative hormone therapy to preserve my fertility, and she urged me to go with IVF right away when the situation cleared up so I did, and got pregnant on first try.
My pregnancy was not a breeze, because I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes in the third trimester. Unlike the usual protocol that called for C section if the doctor was afraid of taking on reasonable risk, she was my advocate and I had the most wonderful and easy vaginal birth experience — my baby was born only after 8 minutes of push.
While pursuing a sibling for my daughter, I found out that I had a relapse of my precancerous condition and this time I decided to go through with hysterectomy and take the surrogacy route instead. She did an amazing world class operation on me, with only ONE 2 cm incision on my belly button where the scar is to be completely buried, and I was back to my normal self by day 3 — cooking, doing normal house chores and walking in the park. People around me were simply amazed at how fast I could recover, thanks to her marvelous operational technique.
My dad was an obgyn, my aunt is a retired pediatrician, and I come from a family line of doctors. When I see a good doctor, I know it. A good doctor, aside from excellent judgement, which she has displayed throughout my difficult journey, must have a heart, and she has a BIG heart. She genuinely cares for her patients. I often got calls after hours from her informing me of the latest test or biopsy results. She could have waited till the next day, but she chose to relay to me the minute she got it, because she cared. Dr. Menon is also a great listener, a skill often lacking among doctors, because she often proactively seek feedback about treatment and other referred doctors from her patients, so that she can pool all this wonderful knowledge together and benefit her other patients.
I worked with her office very frequently, as you can imagine, due to my multiple issues, and they often respond beyond call of duty, but you need to be patient with call back, because as I understand, they often have to handle more urgent or medically complicated cases.
Right now I am working with her on a sibling project for my daughter through surrogacy, and I feel so blessed despite my medical issues.

Dr Menon has been my ob/​gyn for over a dozen years. She is a rare breed of wonderfulness. Being in private practice, Dr. Menon takes the time that is needed for each individual patient. And according to El Camino Hospital’s profile, she did her residency at Stanford and at Emory.
I have had multiple health issues. Dr. Menon is an excellent doctor with open mind to mind-​body support. She is funny and relaxed, and doesn’t dramatize things. She has been right every time I was worried about what turned about to be nothing, and she has been right every time she felt there was something to look further into. She just has so much experience in addition to skills … she just «knows».
Of course, because babies arrive when they arrive, this sometimes interferes with her office appt schedule, as it does with any obstetrician’s schedule. It’s actually charming, because she returns right to her appointments, happy to report a healthy new baby in the world. Once, in the middle of my annual exam, she had to head over to the hospital for a birth. She said if I had time to stay or return in about an hour, she’d be back because she knows so well the mom of whose children this is the fourth she was delivering. Sure enough, Dr Menon was in the door 50 mins later. She knew the delivering mom’s body so well, she knew the delivery would be simple, quick, and problem-​free as it turned out to be.
Dr. Menon has admitted a couple of times when she didn’t know what was going on with a medical issue of mine — now THAT’S a confident doctor; one who is so secure in her knowledge and experience and self that she doesn’t fake knowing when she doesn’t; like so many other doctors do.
I so appreciate Dr Menon’s non-​dramatic, deep compassion, and her seemingly unflappable ease. My only worry about Dr. Prasanna Menon? … that she’ll retire before I start menopause. :)

I have worked with Dr. Menon for 9 years and we have been receiving several positive compliments every day in the office & on Unilocal.I am very surprised and disappointed to note all the positive comments deleted on this Unilocal site. I wonder if this is because, we do not have a paid account with Unilocal!
This is a great place to work and a wonderful & safe place to have your care!!!
Elisha

Unless you’re an Indian woman who is fresh off the boat and have only had one sexual partner in your life, DON’T GO TO DR. PRASANNA MENON.
1. Totally disinterested in what I had to say
2. Made me feel like a dirty whore
3. Made me feel like a bad daughter for being a dirty whore: she actually said the words, «does your mother know about this?!»
4. Is homophobic
She should have her license taken away.

Dr menon is very absent minded and does not remember any of patients history or records. After multiple visits she will still ask some basic questions about the past as if she was never aware of it. The least that she can do is atleast read the chart before she meets the patient.
If you are looking for advice dont expect much, its better that you do your homework before you go to her.
Also Jeniffer her assistant is bad at answering calls. I have sometimes called atleast 5– 6 times on different days just to find out if my test results have come back, Not sure who is slow there Jeniffer or dr menon, the response i would get is that Dr menon still needs to looks at my report.
Overall very disappointed with this place.