Nazli Ahmed, MD

Dr. Ahmed is a wonderful doctor. I have been seeing her for many years and absolutely trust her with my health. She is the most kindest, compassionate human being you can ever come across on this earth. I highly recommend her to anyone.

I have had Dr. Ahmed now for over 30 years, and i just think she is best doctor ever, caring gentle, and listens to you. I would not change doctors for the world. I do miss her having her own office, but at this time in her life she need a rest.

As a general rule, doctors scare me. But Dr. Ahmed is so kind, so helpful, and so genuine I just adore her. She cares about her patients, remembers all of their names and is just a wonderful person in general. She is extremely smart and I trust her judgement.

Dr. Ahmed has been our family physician ever since my parents moved to California around 20 years ago. While not a pediatrician, as someone wrongly suggested below me, she does make an excellent doctor for adults. I have recently moved to a new city and found that service at a well known hospital does not even compare to the type of service that was typical at dr. Ahmed’s office. Even during emergencies that occurred out of office hours were attended to by dr. Ahmed in a few hours, whereas other doctors we have known have taken days to respond to us.
You should know that she does have a different philosophy towards prescribing medicine than other doctors though, and usually will not prescribe you anything unless you really need it and have taken the time to see her at her office.

Im flabbergasted by the review that was posted. If anything this doctor is a amazing person and is always trying to help her patients in any way she can. The staff. is always willing to fight insurances, laboratory on the patients behalf so that they do not get charged a unfair fee. They even take on other non medically needed responsibilities and go out of their way to help their patients.
Dr Nazli Ahmed is great person. And a great doctor .you can ask anyone in her medical group and they will tell you she is one determined doctor when it comes to her patients.
There are no words that could sum up what a great person inside and out Dr Ahmed is.

I am writing this review after reading the horrible review written earlier. I have been a patient of Dr. Ahmed for over 20 years and she has always been professional, compassionate and knowledgeable. She is prompt with returning calls, upfront about care options and always takes her time. Dr. Ahmed has even called me in prescriptions while I was out of the sate. Her office staff are sweet, competent and professional. Always happy and smiling, willing to do what ever it takes to make things happen. They do their best to work you into the schedule when its urgent and are great about reminder calls!
Because of the great care I have received over the years my husband, son, daughter, niece, brother-​in-​law and good friend are all patients of Dr. Ahmed as well. They all rave about what a great doctor she is and how loving of a person she is as well.
I am fortunate to have a DR. who is professional, loving, knowledgeable, and reliable! But more than that I have a DR. Who loves me and my family far beyond us just being her patients! I

I used to use her ten years ago or so, and while it wasn’t anything special, I didn’t have any health problems, so I didn’t mind the wait, etc, for my annual well-​womens’ check, may be a flu, etc.
Several new job, kids, etc, later, I picked her again, because I had already been there, and again, other than seeing my OBGYN, I don’t go to the doctors that often. I knew she wasn’t reliable to use for my kids, so I found a different pediatrician. My husband also picked her as a primary care physician (HMO).
I went in to see her for a routine physical, and because they thought there was a problem with my insurance, they wouldn’t see me. While standing there, I had called Blue Shield, waited on hold for 40 minutes, with my 3 year old in the waiting room, while the younger nurse/​receptionist roller her eyes at me, and only after they talked to Blue Shield did they see me. In a hurry, now running late. I was slightly annoyed, and had planned on changing to a different doctor.
Fast forward to an ear infection (first one in more than 25 years), and I literally flew to the office (because I still had not changed Dr’s. duh). I asked for a stronger antibiotic than Amoxicillin, because I had a RAGING ear infection, but Dr Ahmed said it wasn’t necessary. (Weeks later in Urgent Care a doctor said he doesn’t use Amox. for these types of infections anymore, because he sees so much resistance, and he certainly wouldn’t use it on an acute infection.) But whatever.
When I called a week later with the same in thing in both ears, she was out of office for a week. There is no on call doctor, they just referred me to another Dr. My insurance didn’t cover him, so enter Urgent Care. She was also out of office part of the next week, and although they said they’d paged her, she never called me back. Although the staff did call me with insurance questions. (While my head is exploding, and I’m asking that they call in a steroid pack Urgent Care recommended if their treatment didn’t work). I said I would call Blue Shield.
Dr Ahmed called the next day, after a few more messages, but she was also concerned about my insurance. Who at this point have sent them letters, they, in fact, do cover me. Because she hadn’t received her monthly HMO fee yet, she wouldn’t be able to see me. Nor would she call in the steroid pack. She didn’t even ask if I could pay out of pocket, because, you know, when your head is exploding, you’ll pretty much pay anything, and hash it out with insurance later. She suggested I go to urgent care again, until I could give her something in writing from Blue Shield.
Never mind that my husband is also assigned to her, she received an HMO check for him monthly, and he NEVER goes to the Dr.
Long story short, I went to a different Dr, who looked in my ear, called in the steroid pack, and his office called me a few days later to see how I’m doing.
Had I picked a different Doctor, I likely wouldn’t have had to spend 3 weeks, nearly deaf, with fluid blocking both ears, vertigo, pain, etc.
There were other things, like they kept insisting I schedule my well women’s check with them, when I kept telling them I prefer to do that with my OBGYN now, (a) because that’s who I’ve been using last couple years, and I really like, and b) because he doesn’t extort me for money) Then they wanted the records from the OB’s office, for some sort of insurance audit? Certainly if my insurance wants to know where I had my pap smear, they can look it up?
While I was waiting for Dr to call me back, they office called me twice to ask me about what Urgent Care I’d been to. They had called three of them in the area, and couldn’t find my record. I don’t even know why, it just annoyed me that instead of working on finding me a Dr, they’re chasing down my Urgent Care visit record?
And that the staff said she wouldn’t call in the steroid pack until she saw me (which is hard, because she’s normally out of town). When I said they could use the Urgent Care doctor’s assessment, they said it wasn’t good enough. They HAD to see me (my copay, obviously). Honestly, the Urgent Care Dr seemed more competent and knowlegeable, and my options for treating a clogged head were pretty limited. I didn’t need her to charge me $ 30 to drive to her office to look in my ear again.
I get that most Dr’s offices now are all about copays and money. Times are hard. But not this hard. A decent Dr should at least pretend that they care a little bit about you.
On a side note, my kids pediatrician looked in my ear, and offered to call in a steroid pack. Because sometimes people are just kind. My OB is also absolutely amazing. And then there’s this place, aggressive, disorganized, and kind of sad.