Foot Clinic

I came in on a weekend with a toe infection that had been bothering me for a while. I was finally fed up and made my way to the Foot Clinic. Dr. Lim was my doctor. I was seen very quickly and Dr. Lim was pleasant and extremely quick. I highly recommend Dr. Lim.

I had a great experience at the Foot Clinic. My wait times were short and my doctor attentive. I was given my options, without being given the runaround like I have gotten at a lot of other Mickey Mouse operations. After I was consulted, and I have my options right in front of me, I was helped to make a reasonable decision. I am very happy with the two doctor there and will return should I ever have feet troubles again.

I was recently seen by Dr. Lim for an injury I didn’t feel was fatal, but needed to be seen because the pain was something I’ve never experienced. He explained all of the pros and cons clearly and I felt really confident in the decision I made to go there. He’s a great doctor with an awesome personality and the staff was also super friendly. Easy parking, no wait and excellent care.

Ok, so after reading some of the reviews I feel like I have to speak up. I’ve being seeing Dr. Lim for like five years now. Almost every foot problem you can think of he fixed. He isn’t a customer service representative, what he is, is a darn good doctor. The best way to describe him is «comic book guy» from the Simpsons. Nerdy and sarcastic. If you’re a hipster pansy from Hollywood I can see why you feel sad and need a fancy overpriced coffee after. The banter is best enjoyed back and forth. Talk to him about science fiction, ask him why become a foot doctor and then make fun of him for buying an iPhone 6 plus with only 16GB. I hadn’t seen him for a while, he kinda remembered me at first. Then he recalled our previous visits. That’s when the smack talking started. After calling him a dork, I told him I had an ingrown toenail that wasn’t bothering me until I banged it at a water park. He looked at it, said it’s pretty bad and he recommended yanking it out. I said ok, he numbed the heck out of my toe and fixed the issue. I freaked out when he poked me with the needle, he called me a wuss and continued to work. So, no hand holding, smack talking and the finest foot care anywhere. Seriously, thank you Doc.

so im back this time its an ingrown damm they are painful!!! once again dr lim you took care of my foot. thank you!!!

This place is hands down the worst foot clinic in LA. Unfortunately, a couple years ago I made the mistake of going forth with surgery with Dr. Lim & Shmuel. I had a hammertoe correction surgery performed on my fourth toe that left my toe floppy and rotated on its side. They actually made my toe worse than it was to begin with. In my case a piece of bone was removed and was left to heal by itself. Who does that? So basically I was left with a toe missing a piece of bone which left it unstable and wobbly. I’m finally writing this review because I went to see another doctor who made me realize how bad of a job they actually did. Fortunately he said he could fix it and would have to put in an implant where the bone was removed.
This review is a warning to anyone considering coming here. Do your research! This is not the place for quality care. These doctors are care more about getting paid than giving their patients the best treatment. There are way better doctors out there. I learned the hard way.

dr shlomo rocks!

I had my guard up based on the other reviews written on here, but it’s starting to seem after my own experience that Dr. Lim truly is surgery-​happy. He actually admitted that he leaned towards surgery in the spectrum of treatment for foot ailments, while other doctors might not. It’s just questionable with the horrible state of the American healthcare system, where doctors have an incentive to rack up procedures and bill as much as possible.
Contrary to the urgent care and PCP I’d seen in the days leading up to my visit to the podiatrist, who all claimed it was a minimal fracture and that it shouldn’t be a big ordeal, he seemed quite alarmed during my consultation. I should add, I spoke to two podiatrists over the phone prior to my visit to Dr. Lim and they both advised that a cast would be necessary based on what I had told them and without having seen my X-​rays, of course.
Dr. Lim recommended within the first five minutes that I needed surgery and thus a screw in my foot due to a Jones fracture in my fifth metatarsal. This was due to the fact, he said, that the fracture was more than 1 mm wide (it was around 2 mm). To boot, there may be complications as surgery is never a sure bet. He also offered the option of having a cast or just using a CAM walker, so basically I walked out of the consultation with three options, none of which seemed reassuring, which isn’t really what you want to hear from a medical specialist. They outfitted me with a CAM walker when I left (so that I felt like I was at least getting something out of it) and the attendant told me that I could take it off as I needed to, without really knowing my diagnosis. I never did because I felt really insecure in it, and from what I heard from the next podiatrist, taking it off is not something you should ever do as you need to keep your foot at a 90-​degree angle to your shin.
I wound up going to Dr. Alan Snyder at Los Feliz Foot and Ankle, who had glowing reviews. He said that surgery would have been overkill and that it was recommended for fractures at least four or five mm in width. To boot, he said that Dr. Lim had read the X-​ray wrong and that I had an avulsion fracture as a Jones fracture would have been farther up my metatarsal and thus in the wrong spot. He seemed steadfast in his decision that a cast would suffice, and that was precisely what I wanted to hear.
Thus be prepared for a misdiagnosis, a misread X-​ray and likely surgery going to Dr. Lim.

Never again! This place is the pits. I went here last week because I thought I broke my toe (they were one of the only places open on Saturday). I waited a long time in the waiting room, which normally I don’t mind, but it did take a while. Then the doctor came in and did xrays. He didn’t offer to help me walk to the xray machine in the next room or use crutches. I couldn’t walk on my foot without serious pain. Anyway, my toe was broken and he recommend that I get surgery. He wanted to put a wire in my pinky toe and he wanted to do it soon. He said that he would be in touch with me the following Monday after my insurance was verified. He didn’t really explain much to me, just that he wanted to put a wire in my toe and put me under anesthesia. It seemed like a pretty aggressive approach for such a little toe, but what do I know? I’m a lawyer, not a doctor.
So Monday came, I called 3 times, the staff was not helpful. Then I called Tuesday 2 times, no call back from the doctor. Then I called Wednesday… still waiting for a call back. So I didn’t know if I needed this surgery because I didn’t want my foot to be messed up. So, I ended up getting a second opinion at a MUCH BETTER PODIATRIST (Dr. Snyder). And I don’t need surgery!
I think it is terrible when a medical (or any other) professional fails to call you back. I mean, he recommended surgery on a broken toe, it’s not like I was calling because I had some weird wart. I think this place is totally unprofessional and fails to provide good care. I would not recommend this place to anyone.

In Silver Lake, the sign outside this place is the stuff of local lore. Not the place, but the sign. It is a rotating marquee of a happy, smiling foot on one side, and on the other is the same foot looking like a victim of police brutality. Jacked up! The hipster fable states that the future of your day is determined by which side you lay your eyes on first. Happy foot = awesome day. Beat up= bad day. The power of the foot sign is not something I challenge, I just don’t look up at it.
I had to pay a visit to the good doctor’s at Sunset Foot Clinic because I have injured the arch on my left foot. Stupid ailment I know, but with old age parts of my body that I didn’t think could cause me pain, have been attacking me as of late. I had payed a visit the day before but the unavailing duo at the front desk informed me that the in house Podiatrist’s were not present for the day. So I made an appointment to visit them the next morning and went and got a mani/​pedi across the street instead.
I hobbled to the receptionist to check in and got a stiff, unsympathetic reaction. I was the only patient there, but it still took them 30 minutes to see me. I finally am acknowledged and have to interrupt the trance that the magazines from 2008 had put me in. As I am waiting to see the Doc, I can hear the good Dr. crossing swords rather loudly with the receptionist. Apparently the Dr. feels that she has attitude. Why must I be subjected to this episode of in house bickering? I wasn’t really disturbed by it, but being a boss myself, I know not to reprimand my subordinates in front of a client, something that the Dr. might want to pay me $ 85 to counsel him on. This is not the Dr. who attends to me unfortunately, I was looking forward to giving him some feed back.
I didn’t have the correct insurance card to get the full experience at Sunset Foot Clinic. The Dr. who did attend me was a young, friendly nerd from the valley. Our chinwag was a witty duel of who could be more facetious with their retort. I liked him, he is the reason I will go back because my foot still hurts.