Linette Williamson, MD

I am 54 years old and have been going to Dr. W for over 4 years. She is one of the best MD’s for aging in the area. Yes, sometimes you need to wait a bit in her office but that is only because she spends a lot of time with each of her patients. Well worth the waiting a few extra minutes.

Very disappointing! Underwhelming practice and their office is extremely unprofessional with scheduling & appointments.

I have never felt better in all my life! You don’t go to Dr. WIlliamson in a hurry, but you do expect that she will treat you as if you were a family member. She look at EVERYTHING! Past history, blood panels, supplements, DNA testing. There is no stone unturned. Thank you for giving me my life back!

Don’t walk, run! Absolutely ridiculous! I have 2 thyroid medications I will be taking for the rest of my life. Dr. Williamson requires the patient call in each time a prescription needs to be refilled (she normally writes them for 3 months). Because I have to take them from here on out, we agreed I would have 6 months of refills. But the way she was writing them up, Costco would only fill them for 3 months. Seems like a simple fix, huh? I literally spent a year trying to work it out. I would have to call back every other month because my 2 prescriptions had different timing on the refills. EVERY time I would call (even when I would plead) the receptionist would say, «I’ll get right on it» and the prescriptions would never be called in or refilled or followed through with or whatever was happening on their end NEVER got resolved. And they ignore the faxes your pharmacy sends, because they rely on the patient to call in their own refills. I swear, it was like the WORST dream! I feel sick thinking about it now. You are probably wondering why I stayed so long. It was SO sad and frustrating… but there was always this glimmer of hope we had finally gotten it worked out. And that seemed easier than starting all over with someone new. The final straw? I got blood work done for their ‘weight loss’ clinic. The total bill was $ 2,497.28. Well, $ 492.72 of the tests are NOT covered by insurance. When I called Quest Diagnostics and my insurance company, they said the three tests that weren’t covered are never covered and the only option I have is to pay in full or set up a payment plan. Baahh… if only I had known! I could have decided whether I wanted those random tests (that lead nowhere and provided no resolution) done. What is it they say? There’s a sucker born every minute? Soooooo true :(
As a side bar, I’ve never written a negative review on Unilocal or anywhere else of anyone or any business, but this one goes beyond the pale…

Went to this office and put up with Williamson’s lab nonsense, over doctoring, and too many tests for a healthy person. She now is hiding in a larger practice where she can push her expensive vitamins and her husband’s «nutrition» business. Patients beware, you will be made to miss a lot of work going in for unnecessary lab results, sometimes belonging to another patient. It happened to me twice… and she manages your care off someone else’s results until you point it out. She misses the important things and sends you for tests not covered by even a PPO.

If you’re looking for an office who doesn’t return calls, forgets to submit paper work to get lab work and pushes pricey vitamins, then this is your office! Doctor has poor bedside manner and staff is just not efficient. Frustrating to say the least.

Long waits. They never answer their phone. You can only leave messages for a return call. Husband works with Dr Williamson as a nutritionist but he doesn’t appear to have credentials. He will read to you from a book as opposed to speaking from knowledge. I tried to send the office an email using the address
from their website but it came back as undeliverable. I Googled Linette Williamson to find updated contact information and it appears that she now works for Kaiser. I left a message and I am awaiting a call back for adding the details of my experience with this office. So far, all negative.

I like this office and the Doctor takes her time with you. I like how she searches for the root of problems not just writing prescriptions to cure the problems. My only complaint is that they are terrible at refilling prescriptions in a timely manner.

I think this is the last time I’ll bother coming here. I’m so sick of waiting an hour after my appointment time to be seen. My time is valuable too!

I really tried to give Dr Williamson a chance, but her care was horrible and office staff was as well. She did not address my main concern at all, in fact misdiagnosed my condiition and put me on a «natural» medication which made me worse.
She did many obscure lab tests which were not covered by my insurance, would not give me the results of those tests without having me make another appointment (which opens up a whole other dimension of difficulties with office staff), and then at the appointment could not even get my results together.
Her demeanor is nice and calm, but she typically stares at the computer screen, constantly wipes her nose with the inside of her wrist and rarely makes eye contact with me,
Even getting the office to pick up the phone was a challenge, and every month kept charging me erroneously after all was paid. Very hard to deal with. After 4 or 5 visits I decided to get a real doctor.

This has been a horrible experience! I had been going here for years and it used to be a nice place. Ever since she combined her offices her practice has gone down the toilet. I’ve encountered very rude staff, consistant 2 hour waits for appointments, spent thousands on unnecessary lab work requested, was injured when having blood taken, was prescribed hormones and paid for them, only to have her take me off of them before I even started, and just all around feeling like this office is only in it for the money and not for the care of the patient. The worst doctor experience I have ever had!!!

I try to avoid the Dr. s office, but I had to come in for a follow up on some blood work. My appointment was at 1:15pm. I showed up at 1:00 and it’s 2:30 and the Dr. Still has not made an appearance. I feel like I waited so long that even though I am not sick, I could have easily become sick from sitting in an office full of germs this long.
The wait time is a common complaint for this office! Every time I have a visit, it’s always the same thing. I am definitely going to change my primary care physician asap! This is not acceptable of any business.

I never leave bad reviews but, today I have to say I am so dissapointed. I was actually looking forward to seeing this doctor as, it had appeared that she she was good and that her staff was compassionate. I go there today, after waiting 2 weeks for my appointment, to be told that I do not have an appointment. I could not believe my ears? They had my husband’s appointment correct, but where was mine? They told me I had to make another appointment — meaning I need to wait another 2 – 3 weeks! Really? I had read some of the previous reviews and was hoping that this was not the case — but, unfortunately it is so. Really bad customer service :(

Dr Williamson is awesome! Yes sometimes you have to wait awhile to see her but you usually do with the good doctors. She actually takes time to spend with you, listen to you about your concerns, explain to you whats going on and not hurry you through a visit. Because of her she figured out a serious medical issue that 2 other doctors didn’t even notice or address that should have known better. Thanks to her I am feeling healthy and fabulous!

I should mention that I am writing this review from the waiting room… I came in as a first time patient and showed up promptly the full 30 minutes before my scheduled appointment time, which I was told was critical to fill out paperwork. I spent about 2 minutes on the paperwork and did nothing with the remaining 28. Another 40 minutes later I’m still sitting here. The front desk staff appears to consist of three people, none of which can provide an answer to how much more of my day they plan to squander. This will be the first and last time for me.

Cudos to the people that could even get an appointment with her! Now that this practice is a part of Covered California I was told that they could see me for my first appointment in 5 weeks! When I told them that I had a really bad sinus infection they offered up an appt in 20 days! They then told me that 20 days was too long for a sinus infection so I should go see urgent care or the ER!
The ER for antibiotics, really? As a practitioner you have a responsibility to stop taking on new patients when you can’t deliver an «acceptable standard of care».

Terrible terrible terrible. I have been at Coast Medical Center for years and it has gone into the toilet recently. The last 3 appointments I have waited for over an hour before being seen. Last appointment was rescheduled twice and then I was given attitude for being a few minutes late to the rescheduled time and day. Staff is rude and they keep losing the forms. Going elsewhere

I arrived on time to my appointment at 10:00 and was told that my appointment time was changed to 2:15 and that one of the nurses left a voicemail informing me of the change (later i saw the voicemail was left at 8:30 that same morning, not nearly enough notice). The woman at the front desk initially apologized and said that they could fit me in now into their schedule. I told her that I had to be somewhere around 11:00 and she reassured me that it wouldn’t take too long. No other patients were in the waiting room and there seemed to be plenty of staff. And so I waited. It wasn’t until 10:45 that I was abruptly told that the doctor could not see me now because she was busy and that I would have to return at 2:15. Waiting 45 minutes to hear this was very frustrating and unacceptable. From my chair I could see that they were scrambling to organize their work and it seemed like no one really knew what was going on. What do they even do back there?
On another, earlier occasion, I called to see if my lab results had been received from Quest Diagnostics. I was told that they were «working on it» and that I would receive a call within an hour. I received no call for 3 hours, so I called back and no one picked up. The next day when I called again, the woman failed to give me a clear answer on whether or not the doctors office had my results yet which should have been received 2 weeks prior directly from Quest. I kept asking her why there was so much confusion about finding my lab results, until finally she said «ok we’ll let you know» and hung up on me. really???
I would like to add that the staff was extremely apologetic when I returned to my 2:15 appointment and treated me very well. I very much appreciate that, but I should be treated well every time I enter their office. These are just 2 isolated instances of many more smaller frustrations. I will soon be looking for a new doctor.

Just awful! The front desk staff are unprofessional and uncaring. Do not go here.

I did like a previous Unilocaler and searched my insurance website for a provider and took a chance (well… after reading the Unilocal reviews :). It’s been easy to schedule appointments, and I have been to the office a few times, only once I had to wait. Communicating with the office is a breeze — I prefer email over phone and Lori at the front desk is always quick to respond. Dr Williamson is great, I felt comfortable with her right away and didn’t feel rushed.
I docked a star because I just wish this was an all-​in-​one clinic — they send you all over town for things like blood work and imaging.