Hajaliloo F John D MD

I wish I had seen the earlier reviewers. I have never done a review on Unilocal but feel it is my duty to warn people about him. I agree that he seems like he’s running a bit of a scam. His assistant’s have made comments to me when he wasn’t around that implied their own disgust with the way he does things. I have waited over an hour most of the time, with the last visit waiting 1 ½ hours. By the time he came in I was dying to just get out of there, so he lucked out because I kept it short. He has never really helped me. This last (and final) visit he said something like, «It’s not like I think it’s just in your head.» I felt like just because he couldn’t figure out what was wrong, he had to make a subtle jab at me. Not very nice.
When I first went to his office I was impressed by the myriad of certificates and diplomas on the wall. But I realized at subsequent visits that all the rooms have copies of the same diplomas. And they’re also posted in the hallway. That kind of disgusted me, and it should have been a dead giveaway that he’s a bit of a phony having to put on an image to impress people. He didn’t help me much with my problem. I would not recommend to anyone.

Dr. Hajililoo is as good as they get! His knowledge is impressive and he is incredibly caring and compassionate– qualities that are difficult to find these days in medicine. The first reviewer must not have much experience in the medical field and insurances, but costs for md appts, etc are costly as it is very costly for doctors to run offices these day with all of the staff they must have to deal with the hundreds of insurances that they have to deal with on a daily basis. Of course he needs an xray to diagnose abd treat an orthopedic condition ! He does not have xray vision! I take my children to him when needed and recommend him to everyone I can. Thank you Dr. Haj for your awesome care of our family!!!

I’m not a regular Unilocaler, but I logged into my account for the first time in years because I feel like I have to share my story.
I don’t know where Dr. Hajaliloo got his M.D., but he definitely has a Ph.D. in scam artistry. I don’t have health insurance, and I needed to get my collarbone fracture looked at about a week after the night of my injury to see if it was setting okay. All I needed was an x-​ray and maybe a prescription refill, because I was downing Vicodin like crazy to dampen the excruciating, agonizing pain.
The first sign of Dr. Hajaliloo’s scam artistry was the fee. He wanted $ 250(!) BEFORE examining me, BEFORE knowing what I needed from him, even BEFORE learning what my injury was. The second, and more egregious, sign was the lack of an x-​ray machine at his clinic. For $ 250, he told me that he couldn’t tell me anything about my fracture without an x-​ray and that I needed to go to another location (when I was in seeing-​stars pain from taking three steps, let alone sitting in a vibrating car) to get x-​rayed elsewhere at my own expense. I understand that x-​ray machines might be expensive, but HOW DOES AN ORTHOPEDIST NOT HAVE AN X-​RAY MACHINE? If your job is to look at bones, how do you do that without an x-​ray machine in your clinic?
So during the FIVE-​MINUTE CONSULTATION for which he charged me $ 250(!) — because this man has to gall to charge his patients $ 50/​minute — he told me NOTHING about my injury and added insult to my injury by instructing me to get the x-​ray elsewhere and come back next week for the x-​ray results in another five-​minute visit, for which he would’ve charged me ANOTHER $ 250. He then left before I could ask him about the prescription refill. I told a nurse that I’d like to see the doctor again because I didn’t get to ask all of my questions and I wanted to offer the doctor some constructive criticism regarding his brusque bedside manner. The nurse came back five minutes later to say that the doctor refused to see me again.
Needless to say, I never returned. I had a MUCH better experience at Dr. Philip Sobol’s clinic in Westchester. It was admittedly a lot more crowded than Dr. Hajaliloo’s office, but they had several doctors in attendance, all of whom had impeccable bedside manners, and more importantly, an x-​ray machine in the clinic. It also cost $ 170 (NOT $ 250) for a thirty-​minute visit, and they only charged me AFTER my consultation, based on what I needed from them — an x-​ray reading, a nerve damage test, a new shoulder sling; my x-​ray cost extra ($ 55). I can’t recommend the doctors at Dr. Sobol’s clinic enough, and I can’t recommend Dr. Hajaliloo less.