Christine Huynh Tran, MD

We switched to Dr. Tran earlier this year for our sons; we found her to be judgemental, rude and unprofessional. When her recommendation of warm compressed didn’t heal the cyst on my son’s eye and we asked for a referral to the specialist. She then asked us if we still doing the warm compressed. We said yes but admitted that it has been difficult the last 3 plus months — we try our best to do the recommended 3x a day, 20 min each time. He screams, and the crying actually made the cysts worse. She said to us: «you are bigger than him aren’t you? why can’t you forced him down? if you can’t handle him now, how will you later?»
We will be switching doctor.

Dr. Tran has seen my son since he was born in the hospital. He’s 1 now and still sees her. Overall, I like her and so does my son. I’m pregnant and she will be the pediatrician of my 2^nd child.
Office: The office is fairly clean with a few wall toys, one small puzzle box toy, chairs, benches and a TV. The office has no cushioned chairs and so feels like a sterile office.
Appointments: They call you a day or two before to remind you of your appointment. When I have an appointment, it’s usually a 20 min wait. Then we get called in where they take my sons temperature and measurements. We then get sent to one of 3 or 4 rooms which the wait is about 5 – 10 minutes. Approximately in 5 min, she assesses him, gives advice, sometimes shots and asks if I have any questions. Total amount of time spent is usually 30 – 45 min
Doctor: Knowledgeable and gives you options to how you want to deal with a situation/​illness. Also allows you to asks questions and you don’t feel rushed.
Staff: Half are very friendly, the other half are indifferent. When they are busy, the indifferent ones get edgy and don’t like it when you stand at the window.
Take Note:
Appointments: They do take walk ins, but prepare to wait an hour as they are trying to squeeze you in. Also I believe they are closed from 12−2pm. The plus side is her office opens on some Saturdays.
Aside from the one review also in 2016, all the other reviews are from 2014. A lot can change and improve in 2 years.

The doctor is friendly and nice that she and the office is just so busy that I never can call her to ask about my baby sickness which I know doesnt to go to have a visit.

I have kept this doctor for quite some time now, but she is NOT someone I would recommend for your child’s pediatrician. Here are the reasons:
1. They always tried to charge me for a copayment at every singe visit no matter if it was a regular checkup, immunization, or whatever. Per my insurance policy, any «preventive» service DOES NOT require a copayment. Do they pretend that they don’t know general insurance policy?
2. I have left several messages for the staff to have the doctor call me back for whatever concerns that I had for the last three years, NOT ONCE did the doctor ever call me back. But if I brought my child to the office, paid a copayment, just to ask the doctor one or two questions, she was always there and available. Strange huh?
3. When my child was about one month old, I called the doctor, was able to speak to her, I described to her my child’s symptoms, I was told to bring my child to the office. I went to the office, paid a copayment, I again had to describe the symptoms, just to hear the doctor agree with my own diagnosis. She took one look at my child and told me that because my child was only a month old, she advised me to bring my child to the nearest emergency hospital. She could have told me that over the phone when I called and spoke to her and save me my copayment and time instead of telling me to visit her office and then ask me to go to emergency.
4. There are many «services» that this office provide on the spot if you are willing to pay CASH. For example, you can buy compound formulated medication at the pharmacy in the same building, (the doctor’s mother is a pharmacist) with cash; you can get a blood test right there and then in her office paying with cash, if you are too lazy to visit the laboratory by referral and have to wait some more somewhere else… They don’t take insurance so your only option for these services is to pay with CASH.
5. She has too many sick patients that visit her office and if your child is simply there for just immunization, the chance of your own child contracting sickness from her other patients just by visiting her office is kind of high and that has always been my concern whenever I brought my child here. I really hate bringing my child to her office because of that reason.
6. I asked the doctor to refer my child to specialist a few times. Out of all my requests, I have gotten one referral for the past three years and it took several months for them to process one simple referral.
Medical Knowledge = Sufficient ³⁄₅
Bedside Manner = Decent ³⁄₅
Specialist Referral = Slow or Fail to refer as promised = ¹⁄₅
Waiting Time = Fair ²⁄₅
Staffs = Generally Incompetent = ²⁄₅
Money Greedy = YES ⁰⁄₅
Recommend Doctor = NO
Overall Rating = Below Expectation ²⁄₅

Like all new moms, I did extensive research for excellent pediatricians locally. At that time, Dr. Tran’s office was in Anaheim. She took the time to explain everything, even drawing examples from her own family experiences. I was happy and I stayed at her Anaheim location for a little over a year.
Once she moved to her Garden Grove location, I followed. Waiting with my sick kids in her office for periods of over 2 hours or more became normal-​for every single visit!-even with an appointment.
Overbooking and understaffing is not a way to run a successful business. Success is measured by how happy your customers are.

My kids were her patients for almost 3 years. It took a long time to leave because quite frankly, I’m loyal to a fault. I am finally writing a review because I want to help others.
As all new moms, I did my own research for my kid’s pediatrician. I was very happy when I first met her in her former Anaheim location. She was respectful to me, explained my kid’s medical concerns patiently & repeated as many times I needed her to, even giving her own personal experience with her own children for me consider. When she moved to her Garden Grove location, I gladly followed suit. This is where the nightmare began…
At first I thought it was just because her new location was taking time to get situated –wait time in her waiting room was around 1.5 to 2 hours long with an appointment. I started to DREAD going to her office when my kids were sick. My hubby complained that I was lazy to take our kids to the doctors lol! It got to the point where I PACKED a LUNCH because I knew the wait time would be over 2 hours long!
This was a horrible experience when my kids were sick & coughing, because her waiting room was always, always CROWDED & PACKED with other sick & coughing patients! Her small waiting room was a hot bed of germs & viruses! If you left your seat, another momma or her kid would snap up your chair. Some parents had to stand outside to wait. It was like this ALL the time! I’m surprised the other Unilocalers didn’t talk about this… The wait time just progressively got worse– longer and longer. For about 2 more years I faithfully stood by her because when it was my turn to be seen, she would make it up by taking great concern for my kids. The last straw was when I waited over 3 hours with an appointment.
Dr. Christine Huynh Tran blatantly overbooks appointments, takes on too many patients and is understaffed. Also, don’t even waste your breath asking for your child’s medical records when you leave. My kid’s new pediatrician asked for me too, only to have her office refuse. This alone should show Dr. Tran’s true feelings for her young patients.

My daughter is 2 months old so we’ve been too this office three times! I’ve read the review before from a gentlemen where the nurses that worked their confirmed the wrong prescription for his son! Anyway so decided to stay because dr. Huynh is a friendly, informative doctor that repeat her answer for our concern in viet for my mother in law.
I still have a photo of her receiving her hepB shot from her 1 month. They were about to give her her shots which I was told long ago was 4, I saw a lot of bandages so I asked how many is she receiving, the nurse said 5! I asked what for, she respond Blah blah, hep B bc she didn’t get it at her 1month visit… Uh no? I ask her what other shots were giving at the one month bc she did receive a shot, she went to check and proceed to say I was mistaken… When I still have a video of my daughter getting that hepB shot… She almost gave my daughter an extra shot!!! The dr is nice but honestly they’re dealing with newborns and toddlers it’s just scary knowing they continuously mess up dosage they’re putting into a child’s body!

We love her. She takes the time to hear our concerns and give us guidance. Staff is wonderful.

I have been coming to see Dr. Tran since she was at her old location in Anaheim. She is a wonderful physician and my children and I love her. Unfortunately the wait is always more than an hour and walk ins always seem to go in before us. Frustrating… But she’s worth the wait.

Even with an appointment, we waited for over an hour until the staff called us in to the first room to be checked (e.g., weight, height, blood pressure, and temperature), and then it was another 30-​minute wait in the patient room to wait for the doctor to examine my child. Finally when she arrived to the room, she wore a sour expression on her face. I told her my daughter was experiencing pains and she checked the area for less than 5 seconds and exclaimed nothing was wrong. When I tried to ask her a question and explain what type of pain my daughter was having, she interrupted me and told me nothing was wrong. I was shocked to say the least and so very upset. Then she said to take a urine test and was done and left the room. The exam was so very rushed that it lasted less than 5 minutes. She was unprofessional, rude, condescending, and abrupt. Perhaps she shouldn’t take on too many patients as that may be the root of the problem – But that should say a lot about her and what’s important to her as a physician. Awful experience, we will never be back there again!

I have been going to Dr. Tran since she was at her old location (about 9 years). She is very patient, friendly, and diligent.
I had a previous review on here and decided to edit since the office has made some positive changes. I had issues with wait time before but now things seem to be running a lot smoother. I decided to stick it out and stay with Dr. Tran as she’s really a great doctor and shows she cares about my children. I text her to address urgent issues when they come up (rare) and she responds timely. I’m about to have baby #3 and she will be this new baby’s Pediatrician as well.
I always say if you have any issues than communicate (nicely). I did and now I see a big improvement.

This place and Dr are horriable!!! There are so many things at this Dr office that are disturbing starting with the staff there so rude. It doesn’t matter if you have a appt. Here you will be waiting at least 2 hours let’s not talk about if you walk in its the whole afternoon. The Dr use to be good I stuck with her for many years even though a lot of things bothered me. She doesn’t show she cares or is good with my two year old she cares more about the insurance or billing. This place has really gone down hill she over books patients. as soon as the Dr goes in the room she is out the room she treated my son like just another patient to get through. she never would tell me when I had to bring in my son for his next set of shots. Any concerns I would have she would make me feel like it wasn’t important. This place is no good I definitely already switched my sons dr. Don’t bring your kids here not good for the kids. I now have a Dr for my son that shows they care and the wait time is not ridiculous and its not just about the insurance I have or billing that matters and garden grove pediatrics are not gentle or nice with the kids either. As a parent having a Dr and staff that is gentle and friendly is very important to me and this place isnt the place. Don’t waste your time here cause if you do try this place out it won’t be long that you realize how bad it is.

We have had it with this office, we started going to dr Tran 7 years ago when she was still in her old location before she moved to Garden Grove. We really liked her back then but then the last few years things started to go downhill, the office always overbooks, 1 – 2 hours wait is normal even when you have an appointment, her new husband always tries to take over and he charges a lot more because he’s a specialist but he doesn’t do anything extra, we’re looking for a new doctor for our kids.
Oh, the staff are also clueless hence the overbooking.

I completely disagree with the past review. Dr Tran is the only doctor at this office, yes it gets crowded but she is a medi-​cal doctor as well. Very knowledgeable. Anytime I had a billing issue they always took care of it. Overall she’s a great doctor, even gave me her personal cell # if we ever had an emergency.