Xi Freda Gu, MD, PhD

Dr. Gu is kind, thorough and proactive. Her billing department can be unprofessional and her office staff in the past had some issues but she herself is incredible, and always available by phone or text.
Dr Gu is down to earth, a great listener, takes her time and practices a holistic approach. She relies on regular blood work and medications which have kept me in optimal health. She does take preventive care, lifestyle and diet seriously.
If you truly care about your health, she is for you. If you’re the kind of person who does not want to face facts in detail and not know specifically how every organ of your body is functioning, not so much.
My husband, my 19 year old son, 17 year old daughter and I are patients of hers, my husband and I for well over 10 years.

Doctor Gu is a wonderful doctor. She’s is knowledgeable and up to date with latest practices. She is a careful listener, asks a lot of relevant questions and is a very nice person to boot! I feel very safe in her hands.
I highly recommend Dr Gu!

The worst and most expensive service. They charge you SO MUCH MONEY for regular exam work.

Be careful! She will charge you thousands dollar just for regular blood checking! The worst place.

She is very caring
Dr Gu has become our family Doctor even calling us at home to follow up on my daughters care. As far as ordering test this is true but very prevalent in the medical field. I have had far to many procedures. And, many doctors and hospitals but the most important thing I learned was:
1. Try especially when you suspect it may be serious bring someone on the appointment it could save your life and save monies as well. Also, if you have a singular person as a gift offer your desire to be that person to go along with them. It can change your life.
2. Always let any doctor know about your insurance issues and the possible lack of coverage with your insurance. This is a great reason to always be kind to the asst. Nurse and or appt. desk person. This person is possibly the insurance expert as well. That test being issued on you could possibly save your life and money in the long haul.
3. We all need to realize that $ 10 dollars or $ 100 is allot of money especially if a person does not have $ 10 or a $ 100.
4. I had a hospital not pre approve my surgery which after the procedure was done ended up producing a $ 60,000 bill which was sent to me 1 week after. I still remember that sick nauseous feeling upon viewing the bill.
Happy life to all and stay healthy

Be careful with getting physicals form Dr. Gu. She will order a bunch of tests that are not covered and you’ll end up with a $ 300 lab out of pocket expense!
Also, her receptionists don’t know how to return calls. I’ve called 6 times about clearing up a bill and they always say they’ll call me back, but they don’t. 6 times! And I never hear from them until I call them back. They must not care about patients there– wouldn’t recommend her.

The best! She is thorough and very very good! She does not rush you and spends the time necessary. Her staff was friendly and the waiting time was not bad. Thank you.

I was referred to Dr. Gu by a trusted colleague and friend. I have no complains, she always listens and is truly interested in what is going on with me. She was very thorough when completing her physical and in all my follow ups. She will test you for everything when you go for your physical, she will even check your immunizations and vitamin deficiencies. Once you go back, she will go over it with you. If she does not or does not explain, ask her! She will gladly go over it with you, she did with me.

First I want to say Dr Gu herself was nice, knowledgeable and friendly. But I agree with one of the Unilocalers here — she did order a bunch of unnecessary tests! I went in last December for a standard annual physical, which was supposed to be 100% covered by my insurance. But she ordered like 20 tests and to the point that I am still receiving bills from the lab now — THIS IS EIGHT MONTHS AFTER my tests, just because she ordered so many tests and the lab can’t claim to my insurance at once so they claimed multiple times in the span of 8 months!
I’m not really against taking test but the thing is she DID NOT inform me whatsoever that I was being tested on those stuff. When she took my blood sample I thought it was just for standard cholesterol etc. When the bill comes the long list of tests really shocked me. There’re a bunch of things I’ve never heard of and when I call my insurance they told me that those tests are only to be done under specific medical necessities…
Also, the nurse is horrible. She knows nothing and has a very bad attitude.
I will not go back to this place again.

I just got referred to Dr. Gu from a friend. I like her very much! She is very kind, patient and knowledgable. I’m a new patient, and she asked me tons of questions and documented everything. She did not rush or make me feel uncomfortable. I had some health concerns and she listened carefully to everything I said. The only reason I didn’t give her 5 stars is because I had two nurses who saw me before she did… I think one was new, but the veteran nurse wasn’t dressed professionally like the new one was. I’ve seen more professional nurses, but they were fine and the new nurse drew my blood completely pain-​free. Also, I was able to make an appointment relatively quickly, and when I got there, I didn’t wait at all to be seen!

Dr. Gu herself is an acceptable doctor. She will order a bunch of unnecessary tests and want you to be vaccinated for everything under the sun — which if you’re into that it’s OK. Don’t go to her if you’re fat because she will make assumptions about your lifestyle that personally I find insulting. I was going to get foot surgery (I needed a GP on file so I could get the surgery) so when she was asking me about my activity and I said I was going kayaking, hiking, walking, yoga, biking, rafting — but not so much now that my foot has really started hurting. Her response to that was ‘oh any excuse to avoid exercising’ — no — it’s a medical condition *I’m going to get surgery for* — were you even listening or just gazing upon how fat I was? After getting poked and prodded and told I was being lazy for having a painful bunion and being fat, *of course* my blood pressure was high. She then wanted to put me on BP meds after *one* high BP reading!!! This from a woman who is anti-​supplements and vitamins! She also threw in an assumption that I was eating a lot of fast food and candy — I barely eat sugar and after that whole pink slime fiasco and that Taco Bell employee crapping in the beans I won’t touch fast food. But I’m fat. So I must be chowing down on all that stuff, right? Then — the blood panel — when it came back she was super surprised that my numbers were so amazingly good — probably because she saw me — saw I was fat and assumed I was lazy because my painful foot was keeping me from exercising — she probably assumed I’d have all the hallmarks of metabolic syndrome but Nope! No I am perfectly healthy other than the fatness (hint: it’s not the sweets and candy that made me fat. It’s because I like beer and I can’t go on 10-​mile hikes anymore with a painful bunion)
So my overall experience from the doctor specifically is two stars max. She is a knowledgeable doctor but has horrible bedside manners — maybe she would be a good doctor for you if you are skinny and well-​dressed.
But this brings me to the one star — It is her utterly incompetent and unprofessional staff that get zero stars — if Unilocal had negative stars they would get negative stars. Ask them to send a fax and they won’t send it. I have spent a full two days trying to get them to fax paperwork to my other doctors. I had pre-​op paperwork that had to be sent to two doctors. I left *written* instructions. Despite this, neither doctor received the paperwork. I called again and they needed the fax number again (what did they do with the written instructions?) and they still didn’t send it! I went over to the other doctor’s office to have them call — same fax number — and the receptionist at Dr Gu said ‘oh that’s not the number I received before’ — bullcrap. you just didn’t send it. It took a doctor’s office calling for you to do anything. Because Gu’s office couldn’t figure out how to send the fax to the third doctor, I just had my other doctor fax the info to the third one. I had to have a fax with other info sent to a fourth doctor and instead of having it sent with anything indicating it was from a doctor’s office, they just sent some random numbers with my name scribbled on a page. Have you even heard of letterhead or a cover page? So I had to call them again — and once again they needed the fax number (are you literate? can you write anything down or is it all oral tradition for you?) and had to *tell* them it needed to have some identifier it was from a doctor. I would like to be able to get my prescription but these guys are so utterly incompetent you cant even get test results sent to another doctor! BTW, I left a message with the fourth doctor to confirm if they had sent a second fax and *no* they had not. I will have run out of my Rx by the time those monkeys can figure out letterhead and a fax machine and how to do their jobs. terrible. terrible. terrible.

Dr Gu is extremely thorough, caring and devoted to her patients whom she goes to great lengths making sure receive the highest standard of medical care. She is swiftly becoming an icon in Tribeca where she maintains a general practice. It gives me a great measure of comfort knowing I have a family doctor like Freda.

I can’t praise Dr. Gu enough — she’s kind and patient, listens to everything you have to say and can agree to disagree on things — rare for a doctor. I’ve been going to her for over 2 years now and she’s gotten busier and busier — certainly a good sign! Yet she manages to take time and follow up via call or text and do her best to not make patients feel like just a number. I can’t praise her enough and the fact that you can book an appointment on zocdoc helps as well. Great neighborhood doctor!

I like Dr Gu.
I think she is very knowledge, she listens, she is sincere and is very polite.
She knows my medical history very well, and she won’t recommend treatments just based on profit — I suddenly developed an allergy to egg white — and she said I shouldn’t get a flu shot because it contains egg. Rather she recommended preventative procedures, and said let’s slowly start to introduce egg back into your diet to see if your body has changed again.
When I was sick I called her office (quite late), she still called in a prescription for me.
If anything, I have to complain about the wait time. 30 min plus is too much to spend on wait time for me, especially because it’s hard to take time off of work on weekdays. Other than that, no complaints.

I wasn’t very pleased. I had a list of things to address and didn’t get to a point where I felt comfortable really talking to her. She ran all these tests and it was very weird for me. I also told her that I needed to get started on a weight loss regimen and needed her to «kick my butt» to get me started and she didn’t. She doesn’t seem to believe in vitamins and also harassed me about getting a vaccine that I didn’t want. I tried to call in to get an albuterol refill and couldn’t get it without seeing her again… which btw was one of the things I wanted to address the first appointment anyway but never got to. It wasn’t awful but it wasn’t for me. There will be no next appointment.