Kenneth S Vereschagin, MD

I have had my kids see Dr. V since they were born. I was so selective that I received referrals from friends and then even asked for a consultation. He was so enthusiastic that I decided he was the doctor for our family. He came to the hospital for the birth and has always been there for our kids. He is that rare country doctor type. I remember once when he told us to cancel our vacation when my daughter was sick and he was absolutely right. Her recovery was solid.

Dr. Vereschagin has cared for my 4 children for almost 14 years. He is attentive, knowledgable, caring, relates well with children, explains treatment options, follows up with phone calls in a timely manner, and he pursues avenues to be actively involved in the world of medicine. He goes above and beyond what is required of a pediatrician. After moving a half hour away from Santa Clara, I have continued to make the drive to his office for the past 6 years because he is worth the drive.

I have seen 8 other doctors in this practice, all without issue. As for this doctor? Not impressed. Actually, even worse, I left feeling insulted and offended. I took my infant to this doctor since our standard pediatrician within Palo Alto Medical Foundation was unavailable. Both my 2 year old and infant had been sick with croup. The previous night, I had taken my infant to our local ER in the middle of the night due to his rapid breathing. We had tried cold night air, sitting in a steamy bathroom, etc. It wasn’t working and his breathing was scaring me. Our local ER happens to be at a hospital that this pediatrician doesn’t have rights with. He lectured me for taking my infant there instead of driving 30 minutes to El Camino Hospital. As if in the middle of the night, my primary thought should be the physician’s convenience in reading over the treatment the next day??! He chided me that «Croup isn’t exactly the type of illness that requires you to rush to the closest hospital in the middle of the night». Let me add, my older son has had croup 3 times and I’d never taken him to the ER. I think I am able to identify when an illness becomes serious for my children. He also was incorrect about the length that a prescribed steroid should last, telling me the doctor at the ER was completely off. Well, Dr. Vereschagin was actually the one who was incorrect.
He was also completely uninformed about another very common issue that my baby had. After making a few other nasty, mocking kinds of remarks to me he basically stormed out of the room. I hadn’t even been confrontational so the whole situation was surprising. He needs to be more thoughtful of how a mother, with two sick children, who had spent the middle of the night prior at the ER worried about her baby, may be feeling. Instead, he was exactly as other reviewers described, unprofessional, arrogant, and condescending. I will NEVER take a child of mine to see this doctor again, and I have considered leaving the whole practice over this doctor’s behavior.

Avoid this dr he does not care about children’s health.
I can’t say any thing about his sports medicine practice but as a pediatric doctor he was awful. If I could give him zero stars I would. We had lots of problems with my son constantly spitting up and loosing weight for his first 8 months. We constantly voiced our concerns about the weight problem and spitting up issues. Was told weight was not a problem and he would grow out of spitting up. My son was spitting up so bad he was not holding most of his food down which was causing him to not gain weight properly. I told the dr my niece and other members of my family had problem with dairy but he did not care to listen. He always gave excuses of why he should not be on Soy Milk. When ever we went to him he never looked at our chart to see what was going on and what we discussed in previous visits. I felt like I was always having to repeat my self over and over again at every visit. He constantly talked down to my husband and I. The last visit we had with him was enough for me. He was talking down to me when I brought my son in for being extremely skinny. He was so skinny you could see his rib cage.
I did not like how my son and I was treated so we went to a different dr for a 2^nd opinion. She was greatly concerned with his weight and not holding food down. We found out through the new dr that he was down to the 3^rd percentile in weight for his age which normally means they are not thriving as they should be and he is allergic to dairy is why he could not hold food down. I can report after going to his new dr he is doing great with his weight and holds food down now that dairy has been eliminated from his diet.
A good dr is going to listen to your concerns and try to help you. Plus they will look at your chart to see what was discussed in the past to make sure things are going ok or if they have to change some thing for you to start feeling better.
Again avoid Dr Kenneth Vereschagin and find a doctor who will care for your child

I have to say that I am shocked to see such low ratings with this physician and I agree with the stars from the latest reviewer Gillian R.
Dr. Ken was my physician through middle school, high school and even through college. He became my physician after a favorite doctor left the medical group. Since I was an athlete thought a doc in Sports Medicine /​PEDS was a perfect fit for me. I was in his office all the time for sports related injuries and general kid ailments. He is compassionate, attentive and cares about his patients. He has always treated me with respect, knowledgeable expertise and a kind heart. Even so much as to invite me to his church (when I was older-​in college).
Today I would use Dr. Ken, because of the quality of care he provides and I trust his judgment more than any other doctor. If I had a child I would not hesitate in the least, taking them to him for great care.

My kids like going to his office. He is good at understanding our specific concerns and addresses them accordingly.
Good clinician and very knowledgeable!

When we moved to the Valley in 1997 we needed new doctors. We knew no-​one. We had 4 boys ranging in age from 4 — 14 yrs. I checked out the doctors list on my medical insurance online and the first local paediatrician we tried I did not like because I remember thinking her unclean. I went back to the list and discovered Dr. Vereschagin, who was a Paediatrician/​Sports Medicine Doctor. I heard his name mentioned at our High School’s Football team’s games as he was the attending Doctor at the time. He has been absolutely awesome. Throughout the years my boys have had many different sports injuries and he diagnoses right on the money before having an MRI, Xray or anything else. He really knows his stuff. My boys all had their shots there. I have one son who has seasonal asthma and whenever he needs medication he will have it phoned through for us to pick up. My boys have always respected him and never had any issues going to see him. He helped them through their adolescent years. When they were in High School they would drive themselves to see him. He knew how important playing sports was to them and if they were injured, he would time the check up prior to being released on the nail. If you asked them now what they thought of Dr. Vereschagin I have no doubt you would get a 100% positive response from him. They all had their yearly physicals with him and he would prescribe for them what ever they needed and I trusted his judgement, as I had been going along with them to the appointments for many years. He has always been there for our family. Even though he was not the attending Doctor at the boys high school he showed a great deal of interest in knowing that their injuries were being looked after at school even to the point that miraculously a trainer would appear when they were without one. There have been many medical situations during our time with Dr. Vereschagin where he has gone out or his way to make it right for our family and I will never forget his attention. I remember an issue we had with physical therapy that some how he found out about and he made it right. He totally deserves a 100% and I would question anyone who judges his ability as a doctor. He is extremely busy and his appointments are back to back all throughout the day, day in day out. I was surprised to see his photo mounted in El Camino Hospital as the CMO, when I was in there for an xray prior to surgery, and when I next happened to see him he was extremely humble about his position. I would honestly say that anyone who puts their family’s health in his hands and treat him with the respect he deserves will receive unbelievable support from him. This man is a very busy family man with children of his own and on top of his very busy practice he has proven to me that he is very interested in the local community and he doesn’t talk about it he does something about it. Actions definitely speak louder than words with this gentleman and he has proven time and time again to me that he is a man of action and a man of high character and integrity. If I have seen these things, then what comes to my mind is what more is he doing for everyone’s heath that I don’t know. He is not flamboyant and he is not pushing his own pedal he is doing what he loves and has helped so many people during his lifetime get what they want. He has an enormous amount of experience under his belt and I am extremely thankful that he continued to support my family. Even now, I know my boys (now men) would not hesitate to make an appointment to see him if they thought they had a problem with their health. Thank you Doctor Vereschagin for your honesty and everything you do. :-)

If there was a way to give less than 1 star, I would.
This guy is unprofessional, arrogant, and talked to us like we’re idiots. He’s part of the same practice as our usual pediatrician, but we ended up seeing him bc it was during the weekend after-​hours clinic.
We took our baby in to get her severe cough checked out. He told us our daughter wouldn’t be sick in the first place if we didn’t have her in day care, and that she was never going to get better if we didn’t stop sending her there.
When we told him that our 7-​month old daughter threw up after a coughing attack, he asked why we fed her in the first place. I said «well she needs to either eat or drink to stay nourished». He looked at me like was an idiot and said «no she doesn’t». Then he just stared at me like what were you thinking to feed your 7-​month old baby who has a cold. He proceeded to tell me that «when a baby’s in the hospital, we don’t feed them. They get an i.v.». So what’s he saying exactly — don’t feed my kid because she has a cold. Since people don’t put in iv’s at home, and a cold isn’t quite hospital-​worthy, we fed her as normal. I didn’t *know* she was going to throw up.
Later he asked about a medication that our usual pediatrician has prescribed for the coughing/​wheezing. Then he said «oh — i know Dr. xxxxx. I work with her. She likes to treat parents like they’re not capable of making decisions so she prescribed that. But she shouldn’t have. She’s wrong».
Then told us that the «young doctors in our practice» dodn’t know enough about when to prescribe certain meds. What a totally unprofessional way to talk about his colleagues.
If our daughter wasn’t struggling so much, my husband and I would certainly have walked out in the middle of the appointment — we seriously considered it.
We found on later that she has asthma — which, by this guy’s theory, will be fixed if we get her out of day care?! wtf? last i checked, asthma isn’t contagious.
Stay far, far away from this guy.

He’s a good clinician, and no doubt very knowledgeable, but needs to work on his bedside manner. If you want a touchy-​feely pediatrician look elsewhere. He might be someones cup-​o-​tea, but not ours.

We have selected this pediatrician for our new born. Took us 4 visits to figure out that he is NOT a good doctor. He is too harsh even for adults, you can imagine for kids. He thinks his patients are stupid. I would say, try to look for a better doctor !