Kushner Jos H MD

too bad he retired but his staff is fantastic
love him

I am sad to hear he is retiring. Until we had to move he was our pedi. He is amazing to kids and moms. He was there for us thought very difficult times.

Well, I completely disagree with the review written before mine. Dr. Joe is one of the best doctors I have ever met. Not all parents can understand. Yes, he rushes through appointments, but only with the healthy children. When child is sick Doctor stays with you as long as needed. We always had list of qustions with us written on the paper and it was much easier.
We went couple times to see other doctors, who stays with you and sing as long as you want, but both times they did really bad mistakes.
Shots: they should be fast and hursh, that way most of the kids don’t even bother to feel it.
Doctor is retiring now and i have met 17 doctors so far, none of the even comes close to dr. Kushner’s expertise.
We like that doctor never rushed with giving kids medications. He is always there when you need to call him and ask questions.
Being little rough with parents because he has a lot of sick patients waiting for him and he doesn’t want to hold hand of the Mom who is crying because her 10 month old baby pooped an hour later than usual.
If you want to ensure your child’s health pick good doctors.

My wife and I looked for quite some time for a doctor for our newborn before picking Dr. Kushner.
The obvious concern was simply his age and the fact that we were worried that he might retire just at the point when our son was getting accustomed to Dr. Joe. But this was quickly dismissed when we considered the positive side of a Dr. that had been around long enough to likely see every type of baby related issue… In the end we chose experience.
However, from the beginning we were a bit put off by the lack of time that Dr. Kushner would spend with us or our son. The drill for every visit is that a nurse hands you a paper with a list of answers to questions that you would likely have. Ok, I am all for expediency so this seems like a reasonable approach since most of the question we ask are probably routine questions of new parents. But here is where things go astray…
Namely, when Dr. Joe does arrive he literally bolts into the room with barely an acknowledgment of my wife or I and rushes through his exam. To say that he spends little time talking with us is an understatement and it’s our child for pete’s sake!
Yesterday, was the final straw and is the reason I am even writing this… My son had a shot scheduled and after the typical handing of the ‘pre-​answered questions sheet’ Dr. Joe burst into the room barely acknowledged us… asked if we had any questions… and then proceeded to manhandle our son and give him a very aggressive shot. I mean, he grabbed our very calm one year old and just plunged the needle very hard. To top it off he quipped, «it’s a good thing babies don’t remember pain at this age.» UNF$^&*^believable!!! We were in complete shock. But as we were putting our son’s clothes on and gathering our things I went out to look for Dr. Joe to let him know that I felt his actions were overly aggressive and to tell him we would not be coming back. We were told he had already left the office.
Maybe this is an isolated incident… I really hope it is… but I want to make sure that parents beware and keep a close eye.
Dr. Joe is a very affable man and has probably administered his profession with respect for decades to many a San Franciscan. But maybe his time has come. No doubt he needs to know that his actions and comment were totally inappropriate. We will contact him to discuss this and put him on notice to hopefully keep this from happening to other parents.