Aleksandar L Krunic MD

I saw Dr. Krunic today for the first time. Which was a total of 2 min. — 3 minutes max. In & out & back in with another associate and out. Looked at rash I have for 3 weeks now sent his nurse in with RX for cream, order for soap, and powder! I had to ask the nurse my DX? The doctor said nothing never sat just walked in & out. I have worked for doctors for over 20 years never have they took a co payment and spent 3 minutes max with a patient! I paid a co payment of $ 40.00 for a nurse to hand me orders and no answers except a fungus when I had a mystectomy of rt breast cancer 2015 & now this painful and itching rash which he didn’t even consider a biopsy or culture! When a patient isn’t happy with a doctor they are always reported to the patients Health Insurance especially the time factor spent with the patient. I feel this doctor needs to look again at his video with Advocate! Start practicing what is said. I know Advocate will not be happy with the care and quality of service.
Sincerely,
Alice Rios
5-​7-​2016

My big objection with this office is how they used products. I went in for a mole on my leg that during pregnancy had seemed to get bigger. After they removed that they brought in all these moisturizers and such and I was sort of snowed into buying them. I am smart and normally don’t fall for sales tactics but this is a doctors office not a spa or a salon. So then a nurse tells you you need something and you go to check out and they’re like «OK your total is $ 125», huh? I should have just said no. I don’t know why I didn’t, it’s not like me. So, that was lame.

Listen to what everyone has to say and go elsewhere, I wish I checked Unilocal first! I went in to get a mole checked/​removed
I waited an hour in the waiting room and 45 minutes in the exam room. I said to myself I was going to get my $$ worth (was told exam would be $ 170, was charged 2-​something) I saw the doctor for no more than 60 seconds, I didn’t even finish saying «thank you doctor» before the door shut behind him.
The nurse came into the room with products that they wanted me to buy, neither one of them were sunblock. I came in for a mole, you would think that they would at least want me to purchase sunblock? I asked her a question about sunblock in general — she didn’t know the answer and didn’t say she would find out from the Dr either thanks a lot.
No handouts on sun safety, no education on sun safety… Not a word, nothing, just a $ 900 bill (paid out of pocket) and expensive products pushed on me that weren’t explained at all.
Customer service is lacking, you can tell that it’s just a job/​paycheck to everyone. I walked on eggshells so I wouldn’t piss off the front office with too many questions or because they had to answer the phone.
Please go elsewhere!

Krunic wait time is a true story lol
I’m currently waiting in the patient room right now since 2:20pm i had an appointment at 1:30 got here at 1:21pm joked around with his front desk medical assistant if There is a way I could pay an extra fee for a «lesser wait time» I will definitely put it down on top of the co pay.
It’s now 3:11pm and this is actually not that bad yet compared to last times wait. Lol

I visited this dermatology office as a referral about a month ago. I accidentally walked into Lakeview Dermatology, as they are in the same office building, and thought, «Wow. I don’t know why the reviews are so negative. This place is beautiful!» Welp. I was told I was in the wrong office and so when I made my way to the correct one, it was like walking straight out of Nordstrom and into Burlington Coat Factory. Not only was it small, it hasn’t been updated in years. There were approximately 15 seats in the waiting room and about 7 people waiting. I checked in and then had to pay my copay before seeing the doctor, which I have never done but I guess some offices work this way. I should also note that my appointment was originally for 8:30pm, but they moved it up to 7:30pm. As I sat there waiting, I noticed everyone in the waiting area was getting restless and annoyed. Then it filled up to all but one open seat. Then I watched multiple people who got there before me go back for their apt. At this point it has been about 45 minutes and I am closing in on my original apt time. This is the turning point, as I was hungry and my boyfriend was about to just grab food without me since this was clearly not going to be quick. I was about to go ask for my money back and walk out of the office. But at that very moment, the guy across the waiting room read my mind and got to the desk first. He asked for his co-​pay and then they were hesitant to give it to him. Once they did and he left, the girls behind the counter started fighting with each other, yelling and kept saying how they didn’t know how to tell the doctor about the guy leaving. They specifically said, «I don’t want to tell him. But we can’t keep him here against his will!!!» (glad they figured that part out). So once I saw what a commotion it was causing to simply leave because of the long wait lines, I decided to save myself from the scolding and stay put. It wasn’t until around 8:30 or a little after that I finally got called back. It took about 15 – 20 minutes back there and that was that. I will not return to this office for my follow-​up, simply because I value my time. I will however be making an apt with the beautiful office downstairs, Lakeview Dermatology and I suggest you to do the same, unless you want to wait an hour or more.

I had a very very bad experience at this Doctor Krunic office. He is rude and his staff are rude. I waited for 30 min outside and for another 30 min inside and when i was about to leave then they called him and he came see me for 10 seconds and he left. He called his nurse to do my Mole removal. They wanted to charge me $ 360 to remove a small mole. When i said I don’t have time today she walked out of the room and throw my papers to the lady in the front desk and told her to charge $ 170 for nothing. I had to pay $ 170 for waiting over an hour and seeing that Doc for 2 seconds. I did read some bad reviews about him but I didn’t believe that until I had my own bad experience. Please take in consideration all the bad reviews Doctor Krunic has and please stay away from this Doc. He only cares about money, he doesn’t care about his patients. I won’t give him even 1 star.

I also wish I had read all of the reviews posted here. My visit to his office was the most ridiculous doctors apt I’ve ever had. The receptionist was rude, I waited over an hour for a «drive by» exam and was really not explained anything. I wish you could review zero stars on Unilocal.
I went to a Northwestern dermatologist the next week for an entirely new exam. What an entirely different experience. The entire staff was courteous and explained everything going on.
Do not go to this guy!!!

As some of the other reviews noted, I too have waited an extremely long time in the waiting room. 5 stars you ask?
Well, I have been going here for several years now and the second time I was very upset at the wait, like the rest of the people. So upset that I finally left. The doctor himself called me and asked me to come back and apologized. I returned to him because he is one of the best doctors in the area (more on this later).
Skip forward a couple years. Made an appointment to have him look at a new mole that appeared during pregnancy. That one was fine, but saw a couple others he wanted to remove and test. I get a call from the doctor HIMSELF a few days later. One of the moles was melanoma!!! He made room for me in his schedule to have it further removed and tested. He stated the lab told him it was the earliest they had even seen melanoma before! Lucky? maybe Good? probably.
So after several visits and several long waits, I now know why they waits are so long. If he sees you for a 5 minute appoinment, and finds something, he is taking the time to take it off that day, not another appointment. If you get the dreaded melanoma diagnosis and he wants to cut a chunk of your skin off, he is making time for you! And thus, the long wait times.
He has been voted best dermatologist in the area in Chicago magazine several times and peers vote on this. That means if they have a mole or acne or whatever, they are calling him!

Dr Krunic is a great dermatologist.
He was voted by Chicago magazine this year to be one of the best in Chicago and I don’t think they give out that award without gathering a LOT of information.
He removed a nasty cyst of mine last summer and he and his staff at UIC did a great job.
He was so smart that, just by a cursory glance, he knew to the year that I had had work done on it before which didn’t «take.»
I had tried to just have it drained (sorry if this is TMI) and, sure enough it came back worse than ever. He said — you had that drained about 10 years ago, right? Absolutely. I would go back to him in a second — he is very thorough, too.

Extremely rude and office front office assistant. Advised me to remove a mole that has been on my face all my life even though i said that it did not bother me. Despite that she advised me to do it again. The doctor is all about making money with expensive procedures not to help you, but to take money out of your pocket. Dismissive and rude when spoken to. Never will go there again, after consulting another doctor in Evanston about my acne.

Why do you have to give 1 star on Unilocal?
THIS GUY IS BOGUS. Makes you wait an insane amount of time, does a poor job, his assistants chastise you. I was charged $ 84 for a «follow-​up visit» where they removed 2 stitches. Mind you they made me wait 1.5 hours after my scheduled appointment, removed stitches in 2 seconds, dr. came up and scratched his butt, and then made me wait before I paid. I loathe this office.
PLEASE DO NOT SUPPORT THIS «MAN»

I have visited the UIC dermatology department in the past. I needed to have a mole removed but due to many years of not having insurance I was not able to. After waiting 3 months for an appointment, I saw Dr. Kuric on 12/​19/​2013. The wait time was not long as usual. As soon as I was called in, I saw a resident who checked the size my mole. Dr. Kuric came in for 5 seconds and confirmed her diagnosis. They asked for me to wait. 15 minutes later I was transfer to another room. There the nurse asked me to removed my clothes from the waist up. My exact words to the nurse were wait what are we doing today? The doctor and I have not discussed anything. I freaked out because the dr did not talk to me about the type of mole I had or what where the next steps we should take. The dr came in and was arguing with me that I needed to have this removed because I had waited so long blah blah blah. The nurse asked him to leave and she talked to me and calmed me down. We decided to schedule the surgery for a month. Thankfully that was the Dr’s Last day so I will be seeing a different Dr. I don’t understand how someone so unprofessional and heartless can work as a dr. I seriously think he was doing it for the money since now I have very good insurance that does not require pre authorization. Thank god for the wonderful staff. I was ready to have a meltdown.

I had several bad experiences here. I felt like my time was not valued. I waited in the waiting room for a long time and then was abandoned in the hospital check-​up room for a long time too. The staff generally had a flippant, rude attitude and made me feel disrespected.
I hope things are different now (because I haven’t been in for awhile). So maybe refer to the most recent Unilocal to see if anything has improved. Good luck to them. Hope they can turn it around, but I will not be returning.

I wish I had paid attention to the reviews on here — or at least to the vast majority of them, painting this guy and his office out to be what it is: a load of scammers with no professional manner, only in it for the money. I’ve had 3 problems with these people:
1. His office staff are terrible. Front desk woman was rude and condescending, and his medical assistant (a man) looked at me and spoke to me as if he knew me. It felt dirty and weird. He (the medical assistant) looked over my chart at my previous medical history, and read the checked-​off things aloud, giving an interested «Oh really?» type of reaction to each one. It was so uncomfortable.
2. Like someone else who reviewed this doctor, I also went in for a minor skin rash and was told I needed to have a dark freckle removed. Not even a mole — had it my whole life, no change — and it left a pink splotch in the middle of my chest. He would have hacked out another one in a follow-​up appointment — another one that a qualified dermatologist told me (in a 2^nd opinion) wasn’t harmful at all — but I came to my senses and canceled the 2^nd appointment. Which brings me to my 3^rd gripe…
3. After those idiots in their office didn’t keep track of cancellations properly, they have sent me bills for my «failure to cancel appointment» — and when I called and explained that I refused to pay it and that it was a false charge, it seemed dropped… only to have it resurface in the form of a collections agency! The original «bill» (which I didn’t even owe) was $ 40. Now they are charging me $ 100, and telling me they’re sending it to the Credit Bureau, they’re going to ruin my credit, etc. They’re harassing me for $ 40 that I never even owed!
STAY AWAY FROM THIS PLACE. I don’t criticize lightly, and I warn you: STAY AWAY.

Dr. Krunic is HORRIBLE and IRRISPOSIBLE! Forget about the long waits… he completely hacked out a piece of skin from my chest that had only a small freckle on it to have tested for basal cell carcinoma.
I was completely unprepared for the kind of procedure he preformed on me. No one explained what was going to happen and the severity of the incision he gave me. (If I had an understanding of it I never would have let him do it) I had a huge crude looking Frankenstein stitch on my chest for 6 weeks and I now have a scar on my chest about an 1 ½″ long. When I went back to get the stitches out he told me that it was absolutely nothing and that these things can «come and go» He is a hack of a doctor, completely rude and unprofessional.
Years later, I was working on getting another insurance program and this incident came up for my insurance and they tried contacting him for the report. He actually tried to insist that I make another appointment with him to get the papers from him! Basically so that he could charge me for a visit and give me the proper report for the insurance. He a SCAMMER and should lose his license.

Dr Krunic is kind of a jerk. He does not care about his patients he only cares about them dolla $igns!
He crams as many patients as possible into the same time slot so he can make that moolah — therefore your appointment suffers because it is completely rushed and you have to wait 45 minutes to have the guy only give you 5 minutes of his time, IF that. The waiting room is always a madhouse.
He does not listen to you. A skill most dermatologists lack for some reason. Maybe cuz they’re blinded by all them $$$ in their eyes. The quest for a good dermatologist ensues…
Oh yeah, and watch out if you purchase any of the RIDICULOUSLY priced products he «recommends» and sells in office, because if it doesn’t work out for you, he will not only refuse to refund your money, but try to make you feel like crap for even trying to return the product in the first place. Because, ya know, the Doctor is always right (yeah, right.)

NEVER GO HERE!!! If I could give 0 stars I would! It was my first visit here and I waited for over an hour to see the doctor. When he finally came to see me, he hadn’t even read my chart. He wanted to put me on an antibiotic (that I was allergic to) and when I told him I didn’t want to be on antibiotics he said, «I’m the one who is a doctor and you come in here and think you know what is best!» AWFUL BEDSIDE MANOR!!!
He then spoke very fast about all the products I have to use. He pushed 3 products (from their office) and 2 Rx. He didn’t even tell me how I was supposed to use them and just left. There were also alot of random people in the room observing who never introduced themselves or asked if it was okay for them to be there.
I WOULD NEVER GO BACK!!! I had an awful experience and wanted to cry when I left.

Unfairly long wait times and once you see the doctor it’s an «In-​and-​Out» visit. After six months of seeing the doctor and 13 antibiotics (with no improvement) and a couple of random mole biopsies later, I went to see a Northwestern Infectious Disease specialist who has treated without a single antibiotic.
Will not recommend. Will not return. Please be advised.

Long wait (over an hour). Dr. Krunic will barely take the time to see/​talk to you and the removal left a worse scar than the problem I had. Bad experience overall

If you like to wait over two hours to see Dr Krunic for 3 mins than by all means make an appt with him. My appt was for 10am and he did not see me till almost noon. When I questioned his nurse about the long wait she said he had to go to the hospital to visit patients that morning.
My husband had a seperate appt with Dr Krunic and waited close to two hours to see him.
My insurance was billed over $ 200 for a 3 min chat with the Doc. I spent more time with the nurse and the bulk of it was to discuss why I had to wait so long in the lobby.
Good thing I had a nice big book with me and my Starbucks coffee.
Chicago is filled with dermatologist, don’t waste your time here unless of course your time is not as important or significant as the doctors.