Vijaya Jujare, M.D., FAAP

she is my kids peadiatrician. she is a good doctor. she listen to us and answer our questions patiently. she is so kind and nice.

The doctor is very particular about weight gain of the baby as per «charts» and doesn’t take into consideration race, breastfeeding etc. she kept pushing us to use formula when we wanted to exclusively breastfeed, even though the baby met all developmental milestones. We ended up changing the pediatrician

The receptionist/​head nurse is so rude and unpleasant that I am currently looking for a new Pediatrician. She is rude, condescending and lacks social skills. She ignored me when I walked in.
My pet peeve is when people are «too busy» at their job to do their job. If you are busy at least say… I’ll be right with you.
I don’t believe she communicates with the doctor at all and just thinks she can make uneducated decisions on her own.
I felt bad for The other receptionist/​nurse, you could tell she was not enjoying being bossed around by the miserable head nurse.
Also there was no one waiting at all, but she wouldn’t even see my son that day. She’s making me wait 2 days for something that I only need a nurse for, don’t need the doctor.
It’s a pediatricians office! You are dealing with babies and children! You should have a smile on your face.

The doctor is friendly and knowledgeable. I take my 3 kids to her and have never had any problems. She listens to us attentively and discusses alternatives before proposing medicines. She is also encouraging and sympathetic — something we really need as parents of twins.
One thing that I really like about her is that she finds time for us at a very short notice if we need to see her for an emergency.
Some people here have comments about the receptionist/​nurse. Well I have never had any issues — they are very friendly and helpful and fun. I do sympathize with other reviewers. But remember, sometimes it can be just a lack of communication. Sometimes you just get back what you give.
Once I was out of insurance and the doctor worked with me nicely on fees.
There is one reviewer who «kindda didn’t like her». Well, that’s a funny reason to give 1 star. She is not very appealing? Huh? I don’t know what to say to that…
I do hope that she starts giving a one page summary of each visit — for my records. Also, the office could benefit from more computerization and the interiors could be more fun.

5 stars for Dr. Jujare, –3 stars for the receptionist/​lead nurse, bringing the total down to 2.
Dr.Jujare is nice and polite and she goes through a checklist of inspections even for routine visits. She is methodical and doesn’t miss anything. However I took my kid out of here since the wait times are unbearable. I’ve had to zip down El Camino at 60mph once to make it to an office meeting after spending over an hour waiting beyond my scheduled appointment.
On top of that, the lead nurse is super antsy, diabolically rude and talks down to you about being on time! (The younger nurse is laidback and friendly but you have to count entirely on your luck to be dealing with her)

Dr. Jujare saved our little girl’s life when she was two months old; she is six now and very healthy. Dr. Jujare was the ONLY doctor who diagnosed our newborn with a weak femoral pulse and sent us directly to the pediatric cardiologist. It turns out that our daughter had a congenital heart defect that was completely correctible with surgery. However, out of almost a dozen doctors who examined our daughter after she was born at El Camino Hospital, and spent a week in the NICU, the only doctor who could figure out what was wrong, who was thorough enough to check the femoral pulse, was our pediatrician, Dr. Jujare. How incredibly lucky we were to connect with her.
Dr. Jujare is extremely smart and thorough, and she always returns my calls if I have a question about my daughter’s health. We don’t go to Dr. Jujare’s for a five-​star waiting room, we go for five-​star pediatric care.

Update 12÷22÷09
We had billing problems with Dr. Jujare’s office couple years ago but their new billing office manager called and apologized. They reviewed our account and found it was fall into one of those crazy Insurance/​Group loop hole. Promised to refund all the money we paid a year ago.
I truly thank them for looking into this matter again for us.
America truly needs health care reform!

THIS REVIEW IS ABOUT DR VIJAYA LAKSHMI JUJARE
My son was born here in US in 2007 and I am an Indian by origin. i had no clue about good/​bad doctors and i had no body to guide me how to look for a good doc. i chose her because she was on El Camino Hosp panel of pediatricians and she was close to my residence.
well to begin with only i kindda dint like her. She was not very appealing, though polite but dint come thru as a convincing doctor … I dont get he right vibe from her. i cannot explain y I dont like her… its like from some doctors u get this intelligent feel whom u feel would know things … i dont get this from her… shez average…
now 2yrs later finaly i have decided to leave her and go to some other pediatrician as they dont maintain time. with a prior appointment which goes back as much as 20 days advance the standard wait time is 45 mins… and for what a doctor who is not convincing… last to last appointment i waited for over 2 hrs… just imagine waiting with your sick child in a clinic trying to keep him busy for 2 hrs… its insane …
the staff is rude .esp the receptionist (the old one lusie wwas a darling but this new lady sucks… she has a IKnow it all attitude … she is really rude
i hate going to this place… and wud suggest fellow Unilocalers to avoid it.