Steven P Seizer, MD

INTEGRITY! Dr Seizer postponed a lucrative procedure because he felt it wasn’t needed yet. He has a very friendly and professional manner.

I’ve been to Dr. Seizer for 15+ years and I can’t really ask for more from a doctor. He’s sharp, knowledgeable, relatable, trustworthy, and gives me the down-​to-​earth answers I need. Professional and friendly assistants. Highly recommended!

Dr. Seizer is all that Zane B. said he is. He is a too-​rare MD: professional, knowledgeable, and as people used to say «full of the milk of human kindness.» He’s simply the best.
This is a really long review, so if all you needed is a great recommendation, read no further.
However, there is a lot to be said about one staff member in terms of caution when making an appointment with Dr. Seizer. It was only because a UCLA medical appointment email did NOT show the appointment that I had just made with Dr. Seizer that made me call his office to check why that was. I was told I did NOT have an appointment.
I don’t know if this was a careless mistake or a purposeful nasty action by a male staffer. i had to ask if he was wearing a headset and then repeatedly ask him to adjust the microphone because his voice kept fading in and out, making it impossible to understand him. He made no apology for the problem and was clearly irritated with my requests. He gave me an appointment for the next week –my schedule is flexible, so I took the first available appointment.
When I called back to make an appointment with Dr. Seizer, a pleasant and professional female staffer apologized for the «mistake» and gave me the very earliest appointment for 2 weeks later. When I saw Dr. Seizer he told me he was going on vacation the next week but he had a cancellation for the next day. I hadn’t eaten since the night before, so I could do the 24 hr. prep before the colonoscopy. I actually took it because I would have had to wait for a colonoscopy for more than a month and didn’t want to screw up my own vacation plans early the next month. Incidentally this was a routine colonoscopy that I wanted to get out of the way because of vacation. I had no reason to fear bad news from the colonoscopy because I was entirely without pain or symptoms– which is common with colon cancer – that’s why it’s called The Silent Killer!
Thank God that I made that decision because Dr. Seizer found a malignant mass, which he said «, should come out ASAP.» Before giving us the bad news he had already talked to my family MD who sent me for the colonoscopy and he & she agreed on the best surgeon for me. This MAJOR abdominal operation is called a hemicolectomy or «colon resection.» This is serious stuff involving a lot of pain and a fairly long span of time before complete recovery.
It is now a couple of months after that operation and I was very lucky that the cancer did not
spread. Only God knows if I had not taken that next-​day cancellation appointment for the colonoscopy & had the surgery quickly whether it might have metastasized. Blessings on both Dr. Seizer and Dr. Childs for being the kind of doctors they are.
Of course, no one wants to go for a colonoscopy, but it truly is no big deal. You do a 24 hr prep while fasting and go to the place in the morning (that’s best because you wake up & go to the colonoscopy place. Immediately after, you can eat. After you arrive & get gowned up, you relax on a hospital bed, answer a few questions, get your vitals taken, are given an I.V. sedative and literally, the next thing you know, you’re waking up in recovery. You’ll be groggy so you absolutely have to have someone to pick you up & drive you home. No taking a taxi. They want to see the person who’s driving you home… or to breakfast or lunch! :-)
As a result of my experience, several of my friends and family have gone for their first colonoscopies. Others have been prompted to see to it that they keep their 5 and 10 year colonoscopies on schedule.
First-​time colonoscopies are suggested at age 50. Recently I’ve been hearing that it should be earlier… maybe even at 40, especially if there is any family history of colon cancer. So go get your colonoscopy if the above descriptions apply to you, and have a good healthy life!

My family has been going here for 20+ years. Since they were taken over by UCLA they have steadily gone downhill. Today I was told I didn’t have an appt when I did. After several transfers and no reminder calls, I was at the front desk and told I got there after 10:20 and was too late to see the doctor.
He wouldn’t even come over and see me despite just having procedures in both toes and being in a lot of pain.
Best part, see the photo proof I was there at 10:16 am. Parking tickets don’t lie.
AVOID

I first saw Dr. Seizer at age 50 to get the recommended colonoscopy. Because polyps were found, he recommended I have the procedure done every three years. Today I had my third triennial procedure. No polyps were found today (hooray!) so I don’t have to go back for another five years.
Despite what is clearly a hectic schedule, Dr. Seizer somehow has remembered me on each of my subsequent visits. He is calm, humorous, professional and — above all — compassionate. He never fails to greet with a warm (usually two-​handed) handshake. After each procedure he personally takes the time to speak to me and, again, warmly put his hand on my arm to reassure.
Steven Seizer is a rare find in the world of modern medicine: He actually cares about people. I suspect he is deeply spiritual, if not profoundly religious. And if he isn’t, he gives me hope that great depth and kindness may be more universal than I’ve suspected in the past.
Highly recommended. God bless you, Dr. Seizer.

OK, so I have a groin pull that’s been getting worse instead of better over the past 10 days, and though I love my doc, she was on vacation this week, so I finally caved and went to Urgent Care at my doc’s office, Santa Monica Bay Physicians, last night. I went right after work and got there about 6pm, which is probably when everyone else was able to get there from work too, so I ended up having to wait about an hour, but when I finally got in there, Dr. Seizer, who I’d never seen before, turned out to be the doc working that night. He was great. I know people don’t write many reviews on doctors, and I think they should. Aren’t they really more important than restaurants after all? They’ve got your life in their hands! Anyway, I wasn’t sure what actually was wrong with me at that point, and the pain was pretty bad by the time I saw him with this problem, and I hadn’t slept well for two nights, so at least on the inside I was kinda freaking out a little. Wondering if I had a hernia– if I needed to go to the hospital, etc.
Anyway, the doc came in and asked what was going on. So, I described it, and he listened carefully, he took notes, he put on gloves and gently examined my painful belly. I really, really appreciated the way he sort of thought out the process out loud– like, well it’s not this because your urine is normal, it’s not a cyst because it’s the wrong time in your cycle; I don’t feel a hernia (he checked two ways on that)… I was so happy to hear how he was thinking it out, vs. someone who might just say, well it sounds like this– and just prescribe me something and send me on my way– it was a relief to hear the thought process so I could agree with it– like, ok, yeah, I can believe he knows what he’s talking about– ya know? So, we had this good exchange, and he told me what he thought, and he told me to start hammering this thing with anti-​inflammatories, which I hadn’t yet done, and he also said if it was indeed a groin pull that it would respond quickly to that, and bingo– he was right! I still have pain– obviously, something is jacked up and needs time to get right, but I had a way better day today over yesterday. The main thing too is that he calmed me down. I went out of there knowing I did not need to run to the hospital and I trusted his diagnosis and so far it also appears to have been the right one, and his «prescription» for Aleve was a good one. He also told me I would probably need to follow up with my doc, and maybe she’d order more tests if the problem lingered, but he said all the notes he was typing up would be there for her. He gave me a warm handshake and smile on the way out and told me to feel better.
I am very grateful that Dr. Seizer happened to be the guy on duty the night I needed him, and would be looking to see if he was accepting patients if my doc retired or moved.

great doc. cares, knows your history, calls back! like the old days of medical care. he is awesome.