Cronin Kathie L MD

This is the rudest most arrogant physician I’ve come across. When my 86 year old grandmother was looking for a new PCP she thought she might like a woman. If your looking for a female doctor do not choose this one. She treated us terribly. Shame on Sutter Health for employing her.

I agree completely with Liz I.‘s one-​star review.
Dr C. seemed to be in a completely different space (and I do mean SPACE!) between two visits only a few days apart. She listed a completely different set of reasons (symptoms/​problems) for the second visit and addressed none of the ongoing problems we’d discussed in the first. She seemed to forget most of the things she told me she would be checking for between the time she started her «complete physical exam» and when she finished.
She insisted that I take a megadose of a vitamin daily, based on a blood test that showed me less than one per cent out ofo the ideal range — a blood test whose frequent inaccuracy is well documented. Then she treated me to a long rant about how she couldn’t renew a prescription for a drug I hadn’t said a word about asking for a prescription for. I tried to interrupt several times to tell her that I don’t WANT a prescription for it, as I take that drug it so occasionally that I had several years supply. It was as if I were not even in the room: she just kept on and on.
I have an implanted device of a certain type; Dr. C. kept telling me I had TWO of another type, even though I gave her the card for the device, which showed its name — with a picture yet– and clearly said ONE had been implanted. She did not seem able to register that the device I carry inside me was not the one whose name she knew, nor that the two distinct parts of my device were ONE device (this could be life-​threatening in a hurry if the inaccurate description goes into a permanent record!).
I was sent home with a printout which was full of errors. Problems I’d never mentioned (and don’t have) were listed, most of those we’d discussed absent.
Scarily, the printout had changed my allergy list from several rather common drugs to a drug I’d never heard of and which so far as I could find is used only on premature infants. That drug will be the only one that any doctor will see until I get it fixed, but it’s the other half that has me worried — where did my allergy list go? Is it on some poor preemie’s chart? What if a poor allergic premie dies because my list and not the baby’s is on her chart? I seems to be quite routinely given to premature babies.
I can’t imagine what on earth is going on with this doctor. If this how she normally practices I can’t imagine why she’s still practicing.

AVOID! This doctor nearly killed me. I got a major misdiagnosis from her and ended up in the ER lucky to be alive. She has the personality of a door knob and NO bedside manner. You can’t talk to her about multiple problems either; if both your arm and head hurt you better pick one, because she won’t address both. You’ll just have to make another appointment for that. How else can she collect that insurance money? Horrible, horrible person.

I’ve been fighting a cold since the day after Christmas. I thought I had it beat, minus the persistent dry cough. On Friday it returned with a vengeance. I started feeling a lot of tightness and pressure in my chest, which can be signs of heart problems.
I’m definitely not at risk for a heart attack (I’m young, thin and usually quite healthy), but I was still quite concerned. I made an appointment STAT with Dr. Cronin.
Even though my oxygen saturation levels were normal (100%, can’t get better than that), Dr. Cronin listened to my lungs. She informed me that I was wheezing and my lungs were in spasm. Yikes! She had the medical tech give me a breathing treatment right then and there. After the treatment, it felt like a huge weight was lifted from my chest. I was able to breath with much more ease. She also gave me prescriptions for some anti-​inflammatory meds and told me to use my inhalers more often.
I know I will start feeling better again soon. I’m tired of feeling icky!