Valley 420 Evaluations

This place is a joke & they will treat you as one … Gets worse every year. Better off finding somewhere else to go tbh

This place is a joke, good luck with the failing business. Smh talking in a normal voice. Is obviously not a human right… Anyways still renewed my card w/​o their help… Save your self the time and the decency of being treating like a normal human being an not a number and cash cow…
#happygrowing

ZERO STARS. Pretty much the same experience in other reviews. Dr pinto is not friendly at all nor his staff. I asked why I needed to have my insurance card or provider info if he has my files from last year (renewal). His response was «better to not ask questions.» He looks nervous and his staff does too; like they are doing something illegal. Won’t be returning to this sad excuse for a medical pro. Also cash only which makes it seem really sketch when everyone else accepts cards.

If I could give zero or negative stars I would. I’ve been treated poorly by cashiers and employees of businesses before but to be treated the way that I was by Dr Pinto was disappointing to say the least. Never have I been treated so poorly by a so called health care practitioner. His «bedside manners» are nonexistent. Never again will I darken this miserable individuals door. There are many other options available and I will utilize them. I strongly recommend that you do the same.

I wanted to bring my mother to get her license reviewed. Wanted to call and check their hours since it says they’re closed by 10am.
Some one answers the phone: hello valley 420 can you please hold. Thank you and click!
Lol didn’t even have time to blink before she put me on hold. Your service sucks!!!

Doctors legit… gave me my card with no problem. Last lady that helped me was pretty nice… helped me pick out my hello kitty card. Basically treat it as if it was a reg doctors office. Only reason why I didn’t put 5 starts cause my card doesn’t really say what my limit is. Other than that they are good.

Been a patient here for 3 years. This is how I see it… The ladies and the doctor got jobs to do and rules to follow. It’s business, they use us for money, I use them to legally use cannabis in Fresno. The doctor could be more kind I agree. He’s practically mocked me for being there too, for no reason. Unfortunately that’s the way it goes, and Valley 420 Evaluations shows it.

This was my third visit and I will not return! I was treated horrible by the «Doctor» I don’t know what is going on with him. I’m so mad I can’t even think to write everything down that happened. Just the blatant rudeness and disrespect he has for his patients. Ugh!!!

SKEPTICAL — UNTIL I SAW IT MYSELF.
Third time seeing this guy, started 2 years ago, wonderful experience, ez-​pz, Showed him my bottle of Norcos, then with a smile and devious gleeful look in his eyes, he said, «hopefully with lots of refills!». That’s a fact — just immature, unprofessional, but — whatever, it was $ 50 and 2ez.
Fast forward 17 months later, rec 5 months expired, I figured probably another $ 50 — nope only $ 40 for a renewal, and 5 months late! This time easier than the first. Doc came in, looked a little exhausted than a year earlier, asks «everything the same as last year?» — yep! «OK, hopefully we’ll see you next year» ABSOLUTELY — done. Less than 2 minutes with the doc. He’s awesome, i recommend him.
Renewal time, google to check the hours — they changed — NO BIG DEAL. What are these Bad reviews? Read them, and it just seems like he’s trying to tighten things up, the DEA & FDA are clamping down on drs that keep loose records, so he’s probably trying to avoid that. NO ISSUE with that. Especially after reading the ‘NOT RECOMMENDED’ review by ‘Mark P’ himself. I surmise these bad reviews are just annoyed people who are upset with the doc being more diligent or for changing hours, and not accepting walk ins, so I go after making an appointment ON SATURDAY.
Arrive 10 minutes early, provide a compete 2 page record of my last PCP Dr visit a month earlier, verifying my condition. Fill out the paperwork, (page 1 is poorly designed, lots of info that normally would be on 2 or 3 pages scrunched into 1 page), both the girls that worked there were super great, courteous and professional. The older 1 looks over my form, walks me in, tells me what the Dr will ask, what to say based on my form I filled out. So far SO GOOD. Here we go!!!
Looks at my form, asks me if I am allergic to any meds — NO i say. «You didn’t fill that out on the form» I apologize, but after the 3 minute consultation, I’m thinking: HEY DICK, the question read ‘ARE YOU ALLERGIC TO ANY MEDICATIONS — LIST’ — I didn’t list any –therefore by deduction NO ALLERGIES!
WAIT IT GETS BETTER.
«So how long have you had back issues?» — (My form stated knee/​ACL-​1983 then back-​1991) I say 25 years, but «the form says 32» — I apologize again #2…YEAH DICK, 32 yrs FOR MY KNEE, 25 for my BACK — do the math!
«and what else have you taken besides cannabis for pain?» — OK, well I’m assuming you READ MY FORM — YOU CAN SEE THE Norcos — I used to take Alleve, but not anymore. BAD ASSUMPTION on my part. No Alleve written on the form!
He mumbles something about if «I can’t fill out the form properly» –I APOLOGIZE FOR THE THIRD TIME — and then says «this is my livelihood» REALLY… for a split second I think he’s going to make me leave — (despite him having a hard copy of recent visit to my PCP who doesn’t write MMJ recs, which he obviously was too tired to look at), but no worries, he’s a greedy whore (as the $ 10 increase in fees shows), signs it and he tells me to find someone else next year. doctor, if you want people to actually fill out a form completely and correctly here’s a couple ideas:
1 — Get someone who can actually use MS Word or Excel to create a form that doesn’t look like it produced by your 11 year old kid. Use some delineation between questions so they don’t all run together.
2 — On the form try this catch phrase: IF NONE WRITE None or N/​A
SUMMARY:
All the bad reviews are true, except that the girls up front that I dealt with were professional and polite, unlike the Dr. They just need to tell xtra chromo to follow the script too. I feel bad for these girls having to work with such a prick. The Dr is out -, me thinks when you signed up to become the cheapest pot-​doc in Fresno, you made your deal with the devil, those deals are unfortunately difficult to renegotiate.
Find another doc

Doctor and Staff are RUDE, OBNOXIOUS AND HIGHLY UNPROFESSIONAL
I scheduled an appointment several days ago and was told if i didn’t arrive exactly on time i wouldn’t be seen. So i took an earlier bus in order to arrive well before the appointment. [I am handicapped and cannot drive.] After arriving 35 minutes early I needed a place to sit down because i have spinal stenosis and cannot stand more than 5 – 10 minutes without suddenly collapsing when my leg gives way.
Both staff and Dr. Pinto himself refused me entry on my arrival. Dr. PInto was exceptionally obnoxious and crude when i timidly knocked on the door to request a place to sit – even after i showed him the completed form his office requested i prepare and bring along with documentation of my health issues. Told me they wouldn’t let me in until they opened in another 10 – 15 min.
This is my first encounter/​experience with the medical marijuana industry. My primary doc as well as the orthopaedic specialist i’ve been seeing for years told me i could either submit to epidural shots into the spinal nerves and surgery for my stenosis and chronic pain or .the alternative, which is medical marijuana. The belligerent behavior of Dr. Pinto makes even surgery attractive. It has been so unpleasant that if i weren’t experiencing continual pain as well as resisting the surgical alternatives, i’d give up in disgust. Dr. Pinto is a disgrace to medicine.

WARNING!!! WARNING!!! WARNING!!! Very serious.
I don’t write reviews very often, so when you see a review from me you know it’s got to be something seriously wrong with a place for me to take time to WARN others.
They TREAT PATIENTS LIKE DRUGIES. This place has become a horrible. The staff here are rude and act like they are doing you a favor by seeing you. I would avoid this place at all cost. He doesn’t deserve to be in business.
Look at the other reviews there hasn’t been one in awhile. It’s obvious either no one has the time to complain or no one has anything good to say about this place.

I have been going to 420 Evaluations for a couple years and the service has definitely gone down. I have referred over a dozen people and many of them have complained that the doctor treated them rudely. I’m very disappointed and will not be using nor recommending them again!

I’m glad I checked the reviews first, this place is horrible, the «dr» has an ego and the receptionist is no longer hot, I think they’re boning on the side. Fuck this place

always fast and friendly here. not sure what the complaints are from sounds like just trying to steal customers lol its $ 40 comparable to all other similar dr’s. renewed here in less than 10 minutes wow i wouldn’t care if they are rude (which they are not) get me in and out in ten minutes good deal. took my aunt to a newer doc same price and they wanted dob, ssn, urine ph, last bowel movement, wtf just give me my rec and kick me out while i still need one

I’m glad I checked for reviews. I’ve heard they are lenient about who gets a card so I didn’t want to patronize them; but now that I’m renewing I need to save money. I called on Tuesday to ask if I needed an appt. They were closed (around 3 pm) and the recording said the hours had changed. Frustrating. I called back on Thursday only to get a recording saying the office was closed that day. This is not a professional operation. Their recklessness hurts the medical marijuana community image.

Yes she is right !!! WORST DR EVER HE SHOULD NOT!!! BE DEALING WITH THE PUBLIC. He’s one of thoes Dr that thinks he is GOD evidently!!! Same thing happend to me!!! Identical reaction. My friend and husband recommend & kept telling me for 2years to go to valley 420 evaluation so with great recommendation I had to go to Fresno so I was actually really excited and nervous to get this done! I walked in, there was nobody in the waiting room. The girl asked if I was new or renewing I said New she said oh ok we’re done taking new patients you have to be here at 10:00 am Monday –Friday and only the first 20 get seen. I said o ok well I just drove here form out of town it took me 4 hours to get here, she said well you can come back tomorrow at 10. I said ok thank you but I’m only here today Ya we just changed hours. So walked out and told my husband he was upset so he said well ask her about Saturday’s. So I went back in and said I hate to ask you but are you open on Saturdays she said NO!, I said Ok I just work Monday — friday she gos well take time off like everyone else ok… very rudely… I said really there’s no way to ask… she said no i said Ok do you know of any other places I could go Im sorry I’m only In town today for a meeting. This man came running out of the back out of no where. Yelling at me yes yelling Google it im tired of everyone complaining since we changed our hours. I said Sir I’m not complaining I didn’t know anything about your hours I was just asking questions he said no your not your complaining you can take your business some where else you get out of my office. I said how can you treat me like this he said because this is my office I can as he is leaning over the counter like hahaha. Go Google it take your business somewhere else. Dont come back other places will take your business. I walked out crying… Because how can any human being treat a customer or a person like that for just asking questions I wasn’t even being bitchy or have an attitude. I was simply asking questions I’ve never done this before. I was already nervous to begin with. So I cried like my father and mother had just yelled at me… Go to GREEN DOCTOR around the corner DR. PATEL & HER STAFF IS ABOUT $ 20. MORE BUT WELL WORTH EVERY EXTRA DOLLAR. The whole experience was AWESOME!!! They are POLITE, CURTIOUS AND RESPECTFUL and you feel comfortable like you have met them before they also give you an $ 5 referrel credit. !!! he was seriously the soup Nazi and I wish i could shut his office down. I wouldn’t want him to be an example of …or… standing next to anyone in Our circle of helping our country legalization be very successful sorry so long but please stay away from him. Oh and after I looked at his website what a crock!!! They literally changed there hours and days on February 16 and today is the 19 stupid huh… I picked 1star because you can’t pick no star or –star

Went here to take my son to renew his card and I was standing outside waiting talking on the phone and this lady comes out and tells me” I have to be in my car to do that ?!! «Are you serious I have to be in my car to talk on the phone How stupid Lol and they don’t even own the sidewalk they own the building !!!

WORST DOCTOR EVER!!! DO NOT GO HERE!!! Kicked me and my disabled veteran husband out for no reason!!! I asked my husband if he wanted to sit down, he never had a chance to respond but the Dr Pinto over reacted, charged out of the back office and started going nuts and said we had to sit down or get out and then kicked us out for no reason. Girls in office looked like they had seen it before. Went outside where he contonued to follow and telling us to leave with no explanation just a crazy person. He needs medication not prescribing it!!! If you want a card for no reason and can stand his crazy go ahead but BEWARE OF BIPOLAR CHANGES AND ATTACKS!!!