Hashem M Farr, MD

This review is for the office manager Erika otherwise I would give 5 star to Dr. Farr himself ! She is not a compassinate person at all. My situation is always emergency and its not like I can anticipate when it starts and make an appointment in advance ! I have this crucial pain that I have to see the doctor right away before it gets worse ! I call to the office in pain every time and she always have this answer for me to go to emergency room or go to see another Dr if our schedule is not working for you we have no appointment in a week ! How am I supposed to pay to ER every time I go through this? She even doesn’t try to contact to the doctor to get you a medication while u wait a week to see dr, so my situation gets worse and worse and I have to crawl on the floor because of pain. Dr. Farr is an amazing doctor and he has been my dr for the last 15 years, so kind, knowlegable, but his office manager is ruinning his business ! Last time because she couldnt get me (or she didnt want to) in I had to see a dr she referred who didn’t know anything about my condition ! Today I explained to her, I am in pain and I am having a surgery on Friday at least try to get me a medication to make me calm till I see the dr, she said no, come on Monday! I said I have surgery I cant come to the office on Monday! She said ur surgery is on Friday!!! Totally aware of medical procedures and the healing process !! I am RN myself working with a Dr and we have never put a patient down while going through pain ! Erika simply said bye on the phone because she needed to take her lunch and she doesnt care if you are in PAIN ! Through the past few years I tried not to leave any review for her, but today I begged her to do something for me and she said, NO!!!

Currently sitting in the waiting room for my appointment that was scheduled 45 minutes ago. I came early to fill out the new patient paperwork. Why am I still waiting 45 minutes after my scheduled time? The only answer I get from the receptionist is he’s running behind because he’s a specialist. I doubt he had any emergencies based on the type of Dr he is. It’s from over booking appointments because the Dr must think his time is more important that his patients. What a bunch of BS. Oh Ya and there’s no parking. It’s either across the street in the valley fair parking lot or down the block in a residential neighborhood.

The absolute worst experience with a «doctor» in my life. In short, I would have died if I followed his «medical expertise».
He was incredibly rude during each appointment and misdiagnosed each test and symptom. He is incredibly unqualified in my opinion! Not only did he misdiagnose appendicitis as ulcerative colitis, but he told me that I should not get the symptoms checked out if they come back because I would be wasting my money. Well, the symptoms came back and I decided not to listen to this guy who clearly has no bedside manner and in my experience, no medical skills. Turns out I didn’t have ulcerative colitis at all, but appendicitis and due to his negligence, my appendix burst and the ER told me that had I waited (like he told me to), I would have developed sepsis and potentially died.
Worst «doctor» ever.

On new years eve i went to a famous sushi restaurant and became very ill. It felt like a blow torch went off in my stomach. I really thought it was over for me. I was referred to Dr. Hashem Farr by my primary physician to figure out what was wrong. It was a great experience. He staff was very caring and friendly and rushed me in to see Dr. Farr. He diagnosed me quickly after running a few tests and immediately did a small procedure on me. 2 hours later i was pain free. This Dr. knows hes stuff. Thank You Dr. Farr.

I would normally not put bad reviews for medical facilities and medical practitioner because it wouldn’t be fair. They are bound by laws and moral codes such as patient confidentiality making it so that they can’t defend themselves against accusations that may or may not be true. I can assure you that Dr Hashem Farr is the exception. My dad was taken into the emergency room at o’connor hospital 11/​20/​2014 for throw up blood and bloody diarrhea. This is where we meet his daughter. She asked if we had a GI specialist already which we did and we gave her the contact information. This is the normal procedures so she is not in the wrong. The ER doctor and nurses stabilize the patient and contact the primary care provider to quickly and accurately treat a patient. When she left to contact our GI specialist was when Dr. Farr illegally entered the room. He did not introduce himself before going over the chart information. He was not in scrubs or lab coats so we were bewildered by why he was there. He then introduced himself as a GI specialist and proceeded to asked us questions. He had no rights to do so because he wasn’t on duty for ER from the way he dressed and he can’t barge in on another patient or take patient’s freedom to choose their provider. He read my dad’s chart and said «your dad has esophageal cancer and liver cancer and now possibility of varices and ulcers. What do you want me to do?» Well we want him to be treated captain obvious. Why else are we in a hospital? his question implied that we should let my dad die. My sister who is a practicing registered nurse told him why not perform an endoscopy to figure out what is the cause of bleeding. If it’s ulcers we can burn it and these are very common procedures. He gave us excuses after excuses that made no sense. He said there are too much blood right now and they are preventative procedures so it’s too late to do that now. He instead will prescribe drugs to stop the bleeding and wait a day then check. It will work better he said. By this time home boy finally hit the bottom of my dad’s chart and found that he has hepatitis c. You can hear the ChaChing coming out of his head. The good doctor is back in town. He asked us did we know that it’s curable now? It’s expensive but it’s your dad. it only cost about 1850 a pill. This guy… finally our GI specialist came and did the endoscopy found that they are just varices and rubber banded them to stop the bleeding. The procedures took 15 minutes. My dad was saved with some saline with vitamin K to stop the bleeding, blood transfusion and 4 rubber bands. I want people like Dr farr to be saved not do the saving. bless his little grinch heart. I would tell him to hang up his coat but he didn’t wear one. It took me sometime to get around writing this because I didn’t think much of him as a professional, person or human being. After rethinking about how my dad could have died if we followed his instructions and did not have a primary care. I want everyone to refuse his services. Please do not get scam by him your love ones will be maltreated that comes with greater risk of death. You as a patient have the rights to refuse specific healthcare personnel. Do not let their titles intimidates you.

How dare he call himself a doctor! He clearly doesn’t care about helping his patients, but rather helping himself to the money his patients provide him. He does not listen to anything you say & then just schedules you for an unnecessary procedure that will not help you. This is also the first doctor I’ve ever been to that has his staff overbook patients so that what ends up happening is that you are in a full waiting room & wont see the doctor for at least an hour to an hour and a half after you were scheduled & then see him for approximately 3 minutes… During those 3 minutes he doesn’t listen to your answers to his question. He may ask, «Do you feel full all the time?» and you answer, «No. Quite the opposite actually. I’m always feeling starved.» and then he just goes, «OK, so you feel full all the time.» and then when you say no again, he just ignores you while scribbling on his paperwork that is for the unnecessary procedure he intends to schedule you for.
On the followup I brought my fiancé with me because I felt like the doctor might listen to a man better. I say this only because I honestly felt like he had some kind of cultural bias against women (disrespectful) or he’s just a sexist jerk. If he ignored me, maybe he’ll listen to my fiancé? Well my fiancé sat there quietly until after about one minute, the doctor quickly told me that there is nothing wrong with me and that I have mental problems. He claimed that I had nothing wrong with me after feeling my stomach with his hand. At this point my fiancé asked 2 or 3 perfectly reasonable questions related to my symptoms and the doctor became frustrated and angry looking as he insisted to me that I am either pregnant (which I had explained was impossible already) or is hyperventilating and should blow into a bag. These comments once again made me feel like he thought of me as some crazy woman. Then he mocked us saying, «You should go to Stanford.» As my fiancé walked out of the exam room ahead of me, the doctor grabbed my arm & made one final insult saying, «You being with him. You’ll be sick forever.» I couldn’t believe how casually he could make such a cruel statement… I was stunned & then thought to myself something along the lines of, «Well any diagnosis coming from you should be ignored.»
Bottom line:
Completely unprofessional, disrespectful, uncaring, and mean.

90 min wait time after being given appointment. The doctor seemed to be good. Next time thou, I will go out little late

I had come in myself for abdominal pain. I was seen real quickly compared to other gastro doctors my doctor referred me to. A procedure was quickly scheduled and during the follow up he also gave me plenty of samples of different medications saying which ever I think works best is the one I should consistently use and be prescribed.
Overall, I will concede I am a bit biased, my grandfather was a physician and I find it entirely unfair for any negative reviews to be posted on Unilocal or anywhere due to the doctor patient confidentiality issues. Basically, a «patient» can write a bad or good review but a doctor cannot comment either way. Unilocal should be about «consumers», not «patients.»

Staff — friendly. A few years ago my gf went in for a endoscopy and when we arrived at Good Sam, they told her she had to wait FOR HOURS b/​c they did not have her in the schedule. This was not the fault of Dr. Farr’s staff, which was Dr. Farr’s office claim.
I wonder if it’s true b/​c had another appointment a couple years later and I called in for gf since she couldn’t talk yet after the procedure and scheduled it for her.
ME: It’s urgent. When can she come in?
STAFF: We can squeeze her in today or schedule next Monday at this time.
ME: Ok, let me speak to her about scheduling today and I’ll call you back, but just in case, please schedule her in next Monday at this time.
STAFF: Ok.
Next Monday comes, we check in and the same lady I spoke to says she misunderstood me and did not add her to the schedule. Another confusion at this office.
Professionalism — Dr. Farr is interesting and funny. He got straight to the point w/​my gf. She has something wrong w/​her esophagus and he got her in in two days to do the procedure. Lets see what happens during the follow up appt. What needs to be improved is Dr Farr’s follow up immediately after procedure b/​c no patient should wait 2 weeks to get results. He should at minimum call and let the patient know any information, if possible considering it is an urgent matter since she has been vomiting, choking and unable to breathe properly.

This is hands down the worst doctor I have ever seen. He seemed nice enough at first, though he didn’t seem to listen or recollect any of our conversations. Nevertheless, he was in my insurance network so he performed some testing. As soon as he had my $$, he was done treating me, though he discovered nothing. He kept telling me I was fine and to see him again if the problem came back. To which I replied «came back? I’m still having problems». He literally told me to go home and that he can’t/won’t help me. I’ve since seen a new doctor that (surprise) immediately diagnosed the problem. Dr. Farr is a scam artist. Don’t see him!