Michael Eshaghian MD

I would NOT consider this doctor. First off, I do like Dr. Eshaghian as the doctor. He is nice and makes you feel comfortable.
However the reason I am giving this doctor one star is the office and their management. First you will have a 1 hour-​2hours wait for your visit. Countless times they have messed up writing the wrong prescriptions or denied perceptions written days prior by the doctor (its bc. how hard is it?!). I have repeatedly called where I am always on hold for extend amounts of time asking them to correct their mistakes which they still seem to not fix. This office is nothing but a huge headache. I tried giving them the benefit of the doubt, but in the 2 years I have been a patient my experience has not changed or improved.
In the medical field you can find many people who do Dr. E’s job, its the staff and customer service that really makes a good experience– something they are greatly lacking.
Save yourself the long waits and multiple frustrations and go else where!

Terrible bed side manner. He was actually on the phone while giving me my test results. He ordered the nurse to give me a blood test. I told her I was nervous and I needed to take a few deep breaths before she started. She sighed and got on snapchat! I put my jacket back on and left. Between the rude front desk staff, his careless flippant attitude, and the nurse I had a terrible experience and will never go back. I ended up saving up to pay out of pocket for a top notch gyno who ended being more than caring and welcoming. With this new insurance you clearly get what you pay for which is nothing.

This review is long AND overdue. I’m now 8 months pregnant (5 wks to go) & stopped seeing Dr Eshagian w/​15wks to go. I didn’t tell him or his office I was planning on leaving & haven’t heard ONE word from them since. They have not called to check to see what happened to me or why I haven’t been in in months. The last contact with them I had was me leaving a message asking to reschedule an appt. Needless to say, I never heard back.
I found another doctor and office who has bent over backwards to help me and provide the PROPER attention and professionalism I deserve before I was even a patient. They know me when I walk in after 2 visits unlike here. I understand that in reality I’m just one of many patients for Dr Eshagian, but I should have never felt like a number – particularly because I raised this exact issue to Dr Eshagian&his staff previously. I reached my final straw after being more then patient and more then my fair share of second chances.
TIMELINE OF ISSUES:
1^st 2 visits seemed great. The staff seemed nice enough as did the doctor. He spoke softly and shook my hand softly. The staff calls you honey every time (in person and on the phone), which I find personally grating and disingenuous, but I tried not to let it bother me.
The 3^rd visit I waited over an hr. And the dr went over exactly what happened the first previous visit. I chalked this up to nothing major but made sure to ask what to expect the next visit. I got my blood taken and was told I’d get genetic results back at the next visit.
I got sick and called to ask what I could do to ease my symptoms. I had to chase him down for 2 days to get him on the phone. I told him I was coughing and felt really ill and had been like that for 2 days but felt a bit better day 3. The doctor recommended a medicine to me that when I went to pick up the pharmacist warned me was Schedule C, which meant it was only tested on animals, had not been tested on people and the FDA did therefore not approve it to be used by pregnant women –AND only cut the length of sickness down by a day or 2. The pharmacist said if I was feeling better day 3 it was probably unnecessary to take at this point. The pharmacist was right. I was better the next day and Dr Eshagian gave me no such warning or information on the drug. That was my first impulse to find another dr and I wish I had listened to that instinct.
The 4^th visit what I was told would happen did not. They said there was in fact another blood test to be done before I got results back. I waited an hour and a half because they were running behind but instead of filling in late people with those on time they just went down the list as is.
My 5^th visit, my husband took off work unnecessarily because they did not do the proper paperwork so that my first ultrasound was delayed.
My 6^th visit I was running a little late so I called to inform them only to be told they had no record of my appt, at which point I realized they never called to confirm any appts. After asking my name again they asked if I was pregnant. That’s when I realized they have too many patients to manage properly or are simply unprofessional. I’ve seen other posters mention this and I have to agree that it does seem like getting as many patients as possible is their primary goal. I made them squeeze me in that week instead of waiting 2 wks when they wanted to.
I had a sharp stabbing pain in the middle of my stomach that no website or pregnant friend seemed to give any solace to. I called the office that Thursday and and left a message. Did the same that Friday. The pain subsided by Sat evening. I called Mondsy about it. No return call. I called on Tuesday and finally got someone on the phone. In my 2^nd and 3^rd message I also asked for them to confirm my next appointment. On this Tuesday call they said I missed my appointment, I was pissed and asked how that was possible — they said they had no idea. They claimed they never got any of my messages. I made another appointment and decided my 7^th visit was my last test. I told Dr Eshagian what had happened and he defended his office (which I understand to a certain point). He told me I should’ve gone to the ER if it was an emergency. I explained I had no idea if it was, and in fact it was not. He then said: well we get 100 calls a day, it’s hard for the girls to keep track. I said: are you telling me there is no point in calling and leaving a message? Then why do you even have a machine? He said: let’s call them now. We sat in the exam room while he called the front desk & sat awkwardly as no one answered. He got defensive and I felt uncomfortable. I tried to make 1 last appt but was never called back, so I left.
Luckily, my baby is healthy. But you deal w/​an office as much as dr when pregnant. The nurse at this office is the only saving grace. She’s competent & at least feigns knowing you. If you have a choice GO ELSEWHERE. I realize now the «niceness» is superficial & not the same as attention.

Do you want a doctor who does not listen to you and doesn’t call you back when you have a concern? Do you want a doctor who does not give you any information about your health even though it is your right? How about a doctor who rushes you through an appointment and does not answer your questions since he has already billed your insurance company and is on his way to getting the money? Well, this is the doctor for you! He actually told me today that he does not have time to talk to me. What?
I have serious health concerns and I cannot even speak to my doctor. He does not call about the results of my ultrasound and other test results. I have to chase him down. He kept pushing for me to come to the office because he wants to bill my insurance company. He is money hungry and is the worse doctor I have ever encountered. He does not know how to speak to women. He lacks compassion and any type of tact.
Oh, and be careful! He will order tests for you that may be unnecessary. Be very careful with doctors who do this.
After reading the other negative reviews, I am astonished how similar my experience is with other Unilocalers.
If you are not comfortable with your doctor, you must trust your gut and switch doctors. Just because they have a medical degree, it doesn’t mean that they know how to be respectful and treat their patients with dignity.

Dr. Michael Eshaghian is the best! He delivered my baby with greatest joy! He is very patience and helpful he walked is through the whole process as soon as we got to the hospital. It was like the movies only everything worked out beautiful! Dr is amazing he is very knowledgeable and educated us in what to expect and what to do and what not to do. 5 stars because he’s caring, professional, calm, and loving. Most doctors are not so sensitive to every situation but dr. Eshaghian understand that every person has there needs and he try’s to cater to his patients as best as possible !! Don’t read the negative reviews I think they are just people who had a bad day. I read most of the Unilocal reviews and it didn’t make sense someone left him a negative review because her insurance was not accepted !! How does that make him a bad doctor. Or she waited in the office to be seen for too long, well she didn’t have an appointment or something. All I’m saying is I had an epic experience and I couldn’t see his faults and it will continue to use him as our doctor/​ob. Thank doc! Keep up the good work! See you soon

I feel like this review has been over due.
In 2014 I had my 39 week appt with him. That morning I had bloody discharge coming out (mucus plug, now I know it’s normal) and contractions. I went to my appt and he said «go to the hospital, so we can see how big the baby is» i went to the hospital and they did an ultrasound and the technician said your baby might be 8 – 9 maybe 10 pounds. That’s when he called the nurse and ask to talk to me. This man told me your baby is to big if you have a natural birth like you wanted you might end up hurting him. You can cause him damage. That scared me so much. I decided to go for the c section. He never took the time to tell me about the c section complications after birth. Till this day I have pain around my scar.
Now let’s talk about my paper work. I turned in all my paper work for EDD I gave it to the lady in the front desk to fill out because it had to be turned In by them.
Well I called EDD about my maternity leave and they said they never got the paper work. I called the office and the lady with the accent said «oh honey you didn’t give it to us.» Well the last time I went to the office and the doctor opened my paper work guess what I saw? My EDD paper work and it wasn’t even filled out!
The last time I saw these horrible people the Dr had missed diagnosed me and gave me medication I didn’t need. Told me I had Pelvic Inflammatory diseases.
I looked it up the symptoms for PID wasn’t the symptoms I was having.
I had to go to the Emergency room because of the pain It had turned out I had a cyst on my left ovary (and its common especially after a c section.)
If you were scared into having a c section by him like I was and feel cheated because you will never have a natural birth… THATS NOT TRUE you can have a VBAC.
The more you know the better.

Dr. Eshaghian is so amazing! I would give him a thousand stars if I could! His office is such a professional, clean, and comforting environment. From the first appointment with Dr. Eshaghian, I could tell he is very experienced. Both pregnancies ran so smoothly, thanks to Dr. Eshaghian and all his amazing staff. I will forever be thankful for his work and will never consider another obstetrician or gynecologist. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Love you Doctor!

This is the Worst Doctor ever don’t walk run for your life if you value your health!!! Dr. Eshaghian is a heartless clueless doctor with no compassion for his patients he is definitely a robot that’s strictly about making money off his patients. And those front desk women are horrible one named Annette keep calling me honey how professional is that I definitely don’t think you should address a patient as honey. Then I was rudely placed on hold for 30 minutes and had to hang up needless to say the phone stayed busy after that. If you value your health and want a doctor who cares about his patients do not trust your care to this doctor!

I did not meet him until I was 8 months pregnant. This was in the Van Nuys office, were I was going to regularly and seeing his assistant. He sent me to get tested on my sugar, and see if I was Diabetic. I didn’t have it before and the results came in as 2 – 3 points high. I was induced at 39 weeks because he was «concerned». I was 30 hrs in labor. Ended up getting an emergency Cesarean. Afterwards I found out that, all pregnancies have sugar levels higher than when not pregnant but depending on family history and eating habits it can be higher, which my family does not and I was watching everything I ate. They scared me and said that I had to be induced because my baby was in danger. My baby is fine and healthy, and I honestly think we would have been fine when the time came naturally.
The entire time I was in labor, he called and I didn’t see him until they pressured the C-​section option.
I have to say in general, the medical field is a business, they really do not care about your health. And this DR is the WORST doctor.
I went once to his Encino office because it was urgent, but instead of giving me answers to my questions and attending to my needs, he immediately asked me why I went to his Encino office.
His Van Nuys office front desk employees are rude, and UNPROFESSIONAL. They gossip!
DO NOT SEE HIM!

I had the worst experience with this doctor. I wouldn’t send an enemy to him. He botched my results to a biopsy he did, and then tried to charge again to redo it. He finally agreed to redo on his dime, then transferred me to his Encino office where he charges triple, than the Van Nuys office. I have been very sick and he has given little to no advice on what is happening with me– he would not even let me have test results, which I think is against the law. Finding a new doctor. He was awful.

We have had a great experience with Dr. Eshaghian. He is very patient with our questions and has put us at ease throughout our pregnancy. Highly recommended!

I couldn’t be happier with Dr. Eshaghian. When I found out I was pregnant, I wanted a doctor near Sherman Oaks but who was based out of Cedars. Not only did they get is in quickly, they were very accommodating to our schedule.
My husband and I are both a bit of worriers and the doctor has put us at ease since that first visit. He kindly answers all our questions, gets us in and out of the office quickly, and all the girls in the office are very kind and helpful.
They’ve also been really helpful with all my billing questions and insurance concerns.
Can’t wait to deliver in October with Dr. Eshaghian!

Go somewhere else! He literally called me and said, «Hi. Is this _​_​_​? Your child is retarded» …to tell me the results of my first semester blood results. I told him my period was very irregular and that I knew when I got pregnant but he insisted the testing be based on my period. He referred me to genetic counseling and caused me unnecessary stress. I went to another doctor and am happy to say my (now 3 year old) child is perfectly healthy.

I actually go to a different Dr office but this was the only one I could find to write a review so let me start by saying Dr Michael Eshaghian is the best Dr I have ever had. He is smart knows what he is talking about and gets the job done. I always hated going to see the doctor until I met him he is polite respectful and has great bed side manner I am glad I have found such a great Dr. He did my cecerian almost 2 weeks ago and I am healing perfect he did a wonderful job I couldn’t be more pleased. I had two other cecerians before and had horrible experiences. Thank you Dr Eshaghian

At the beginning I had a good experience as the doctor is nice and the staff is very sweet. I went in for my annual pap smear and he felt something on my left ovary and asked if it hurt when he pressed on it. It didn’t feel great but I hadn’t experienced any pain before. He told me to get an ultrasound which freaked me out and also put me back $ 230 but I wanted to get it checked out in case it was anything! 3 weeks of panicking thinking that I had an ovarian tumor later, I went back in and sat down in the room only for him to say that everything looked normal. He could have called me for that but whatever.
4 months later I just got a call from collections about an unpaid bill. I went in for my annual exam which is covered by insurance, why was I being charged?! Not only that but I never received a bill in the mail nor got a phone call. I asked the medical billing office and they had my correct address so why did I never receive anything?! They said that on the office visit notes it states that I went in for pelvic pain therefore it was not a well-​woman annual exam and that he found something and «diagnosed me» so I was being charged the $ 100 office visit. Isn’t that the point of preventative medicine and annual exams, to catch things and find things wrong before they get bad? So anyone who they «diagnose» gets charged a visit?

Thanks for saving my family! God bless you Doctor.
I’m not going to write details here, it’s too personal. This Doctor vent above snd beyond to save my kid’s and wife’s live!
Thanks again, I hope more people with positive experience will rate you here, cause Unilocal is slowly converting to a complain desk.

I’m just going to tell you a whole story. I went to this Dr. because i had an ovarian cyst and i needed a surgery. It took 3 months until his office stuff discovered that my insurance doesn’t work with him, so I changed it. Than it took 3 more moths to discover that for approval of surgery i need to go to my primary Dr. office. Finally after 6 – 7 months i got my approval and all this time my cyst was getting bigger. He told me hi is sending me to see an oncologist to make sure this is not a cancer. My luck he sent me to a good Dr.. The other Dr. office stuff was disappointed, they told me I need a new approval with new Dr. name, because he will do the surgery. I was stressed and scared, because i taught I’ ll need seven more moths of pain and fear that the cyst can rapture. I really want to have kids and his irresponsibility could give me the future without kids. By the way i got approval in tree days. I called to Dr. Eshaghian’s office. They calmed me that they both will do my surgery together and gave me a new appointment. Dr. didn’t remember that he sent me for the test and he told me he is not available the day that surgery was schedule.
I’m happy that my surgery did other Dr., even tho he took out my ovary, because of the size of the cyst and this all the fault of Dr Eshaghian and his office staff.

Bad 1^st impression! Drove from Pasadena to the location listed on Unilocal to find out their office moved. Not only that, when I called the office, the receptionist told me my appointment is at 2pm not 11 am! No one has the courtesy to call the patient that the appointment has been changed!

I would give 0 stars if I could, first of all his staff is unorganized and rude they will have you wait 30 minutes after you have arrived on time for your apt to say Oh you need to fill out some paper work, we’ll if they weren’t so busy gossiping about their weekend plans I wouldn’t have had to wait that long, I can’t stand any of them so inconsiderate, to make matters worse I gave them my new phone number 3x and when I went in the doctor, in a very rude tone says why didn’t you give us your new number??? I couldn’t believe he was raising his voice at me if his staff spent less time gossiping and actually working they’d have my new number!
The doctor is horrible, he is unsympathetic, money hungry and disrespectful. He had the audacity to question my boyfriend faithfulness to me (we’ve been together for 4yrs), asking me if I was sure he’s only sleeping with me and not other women (I went in for a simple annual check up, not interrogation) I couldn’t believe my ears I was shocked. He then tried charging me hundreds of dollars for an ultrasound I didn’t need claiming I had abnormal cells.
I went to planned parenthood and they told me everything was fine and not to spend $ 600 on something I don’t need. I called his emergency line bc of what I needed to talk to him about was an emergency to me but clearly not to him, he got upset yelled at me and said call the office tomorrow during regular business hours, um Hello? What’s the point of an emergency line?
STAY AWAY, FAR FAR AWAY.

I chose this OB doctor because he was the only one listed on my medical group on my insurance. I read these Unilocal reviews before I went in & was scared.
I’m not sure why he got such bad ratings. He and the staff have been very kind and warm to me thus far. I’ve been in their office at least 3 – 4 times. In fact, my insurance has since changed & I’m trying to make sure I can go back to this office.