Timothy TK Jung, MD PhD

I really had high hopes from the two good reviews on here, but I was so incredibly disappointed by my visit with Dr. Jung. After waiting almost three months to even get an appointment, and waiting 40 minutes for him to see me the day of, he couldn’t even give me 5 minutes of his time. My doctor had told me that I had nasal polyps, so when I went to Dr. Jung, he came in and asked why I was there and immediately told me that I was wrong making me feel stupid about it might I add. What was actually wrong with my nose, I couldn’t even tell you because he told me so quickly and was literally rushing out of the room as I asked a question in which he didn’t even really answer. I paid my $ 40 copay to get no help whatsoever. I wish I’d listened to the bad reviews.

I was referred to Dr. Jung by my medical group for surgery to restore hearing loss. I waited months to get in for the initial consult, which meant I had to endure difficulty at work due to the hearing loss. When I arrived for the appointment, the parking lots adjacent and nearby were full so I had to drive further away through the nearby neighborhood to find parking, putting me ¼ mile away from the office. When I arrived, the waiting room was full and I got the last open seat. Shortly thereafter, more patients arrived and had to stand as there were not enough seats. I noticed a sign indicating that patients might not be able to see the doctor at their appointment time due to «emergent» issues the doctor might have to deal with. In response to my query, the receptionist informed me there were 4 patients in front of me. It was ½ an hour after my scheduled appt. before that number dwindled to 3 indicating my wait might be 2 hours. As I had to leave an hour and a half after the appointment time to return to work for an important meeting I could not miss, I had no choice but to cancel the appointment. The receptionist said it would be two months before I could get another appointment. I called the office of my referring physician (with Healthnet) and reported the problem, indicating that I did not have confidence in the doctor based on the lack of professionalism I found in the waiting room, and asked for a new referral. Right after, I called Kaiser (I have both Healthnet and Kaiser) and got an appointment to see a specialist in one week (compared to the months it took me to get the initial referral to Dr. Jung, and then the months I had to wait for the appointment with Jung!) As my employer and I have jointly paid months and months of health insurance premiums to Healthnet without my being able to get actual timely medical access, and my hearing affects my ability to do my job, I also reported this problem to my company’s health benefits facilitator.

Dr. Jung is nothing short of amazing! He has always been thorough, polite, and friendly every time he has seen me. Dr. Jung successfully performed a tympanomastoidectomy and removed a cholesteotoma from my ear and given me my life back! As far as people complaining about having to wait, of course you’re going to have to wait a little bit! Dr. Jung is a world renowned surgeon and is in high demand that is well worth the wait! I would recommend Dr. Jung to anyone seeking an ENT with absolutely no hesitation.

If this man is lazy why does he see endless people from opening to closing every day. I found Dr Jung and his staff to be very friendly and genuinely concerned about you as a patient. I am completely satisfied with his diagnosis and recommendations .Dr. Jung tells you what is going on and what to expect. He performed surgery on me to remove polyps and scar tissue build up in my sinus cavities. No complaints just praise for a job well done. I am very grateful to have had him as my surgeon.

Dr Jung is probably the worst doctor I have ever seen, when it comes to bedside manner. We brought our daughter in so that Dr. Jung could give a second opinion on whether she needs her adenoids removed due to constant sinus and ear infections. First of all, we had to wait over an hour before we were called in to see the doctor. Then his staff asked us how much our daughter weighed. When we responded with an «I don’t know» she decided to weigh her. We spent the next 10mins explaining to her why we were there while she typed up some notes. Then Dr. Jung glanced at her notes and began his examination. Mind you my daughter is 3 so she isn’t the most cooperative patient. Doctor Jung began asking her some pretty complicated questions that she couldn’t understand let alone answer. He seemed to be getting impatient with her. Before we could ask any questions he was walking out of the door while what seemed to be him whispering to us we should follow him to a different examination room. While in there he looked at her ears through a microscope. When he was done with the scope he began rattling off his diagnosis and treatment plan. We tried to tell him several times that the medication he was perscribing caused our child to get sick in the past. His response led us to believe that he did not believe what we were saying so he perscribed the medication anyway. After that he became very unresponsive to our concerns and questions. Several times he started walking out of the room while we were in the middle of asking him a question. Each time he came back to the room a little more aggitated and a little more unresponsive. The staff in the room started to notice that we were getting very frustrated with him so she answered some of the questions to best of her abilities.
If I were you I would not take my child to see Dr. Jung. He is very old and unresponsive. I will say he did order an additional test that our other doctor did not. We are hoping this additional test will shed some more light on our daughter’s ailment.

I don’t know if Doctor Jung is lazy, just incompetent, or is retired on duty (he has to be at least 70 years old). I have been trying for years to get throat surgery due to a constricted airway. He flat out did not want to help me at all. When I called him out of his lack of providing health care (over numerous visits) he reluctantly looked at my sinuses and recommended surgery. I went to my Primary care doctor (Sharobiem) and told him I was going to fire him if he could not do anything. He promptly ordered blood work and an MRI. The MRI showed blocked airway (exactly what I’d been telling Sharobiem and Jung) so I wanted that added to my upcoming surgery. Sharobiem’s office did not give Jung the MRI film. This is where the office staff gave major attitude– me stating there was more information they need to obtain was met with total defiance towards me. Even my wife became upset at the amount of unprofessionalism and attitude thrown at me. On date of surgery (08−02−13) I saw that ‘possible’ removal of adenoids was on my order. I wrote that this was a primary concern on that form. The nurse at Riverside Community Hospital freaked out and removed and replaced that order page in my chart. I told Jung that was why I was having the surgery, hence all my office visits. His reply was that the MRI showed a constricted airway (uh yeah, I know) and he’ll look at it. I said. It feels like someone is stepping on my throat and I want that problem fixed. As stated to him for over the last year. I want my throat fixed was mentioned every visit to his office. So when I awoke from my surgery I was informed that he did not do surgery to my throat. Obviously, I was upset and demanded to speak to him. He said, no adenoids, no surgery. I said again this is why I am there and he left the recovery room.
I’ve contacted an attorney. Hopefully Jung will dealt with as well as the Riverside Community Hospital for being complicit in me not getting my surgery.
If you want results and a professional staff stay away from Doctor Jung’s office. Again, there should be negative stars for a review…

If it were possible, I’d gladly hand out a negative rating based strictly on Dr. Jung’s front office staff. They are seriously the most unhelpful, rude, nonprofessional paraprofessionals that my wife and I have ever had the misfortune of being forced to deal with… If you call to ask a question, you’d better be prepared to get some attitude. It felt like we were putting them out whenever we had to call with a question or a concern. Seeing how Dr. Jung has the bedside manners of… um… a surgeon, it is up to his front office staff make up for that shortcoming by being friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable. As far as Dr. Jung as a surgeon, our daughter survived and is doing well. Five stars for that…
UPDATE!!! Went for the follow-​up at 8:45 (waited 90 minutes– how can they already be so far behind that early in the morning– sheesh!!) Let’s just keep this simple and sweet.
Nurse (sitting on chair): «So you still weigh 72 pounds?»
Wife & daugher (look at each other and throw their shoulders up): «Not sure.»
Nurse (still sitting): «Well, we’ll just put that she is still 72 pounds.»
Whatever happened to nurses getting up and weighing a patient?
Thank You Lord for allowing our time with these lazy, rude ‘professionals’ to be over!!!