Trinh Hoi MD

Worst doctor I’ve ever spoke to. I’d give him NO star if I could. My father has been going to Hoi Trinh’s clinic for 10+ years. About 2 years ago my father was diagnosed with high blood pressure and he prescribed some medicine that his wife’s pharmacy had for a ridiculous price. It’s our fault that my father chose not to get it. My father had a stroke as a result from not taking med for his high blood pressure. We went back to see Trinh because my father needed to complete the FMLA form since he’s unable to work. The stroke left my dad with blurry vision and consistent headaches. Trinh’s exact words when I asked him to help complete the FMLA form, were «I don’t get pay to do that.» I asked him, «so you only do what you get paid for?» He couldn’t answer me and just shrugged his shoulders. I just can’t believe it when he also said that he is not my father’s doctor. Seriously, my father has been seeing him for 10+ years. Like everyone said, he is so unprofessional and ignorant. My father was so disappointed but due to his limited English he couldn’t say much. I’m glad we will be changing dr asap. It seems like Trinh is only interested in easy maintenance patient who is there for a quick visit. He is honestly no doctor in my book. If you’re going to see this doctor, you’re better off googling for info instead. I asked him what would be a good diet for my father and all he could said was «stay away from salt.» Trust me, any doctor is better than him.

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Honestly, this dude gets no stars and I don’t know why he is a doctor. He is truly inconsiderate and just wants to get the day over with by rushing the patient and getting them out as fast as he can. He doesn’t care and he is not a good doctor to go to. Obviously, most of his patients are older asian people, who are too afraid or don’t know what to do about him and just bares with it. He takes advantage of that and thats why he is still a doctor and was able to move into a bigger facility. What a jerk!
He is the main reason why I changed my doctor and my mom’s doctor. He supposedly said that my mom is 1 out of 10 victims in a car crash that tries to get money. I wasn’t there, but when my mom told me she was super sad because thats not how she is. She was really sick and in pain. We later got a referral to get an MRI and it turns out the car crash shifted one of the cervical disc in her spine. It was puncturing a nerve and thats why she was getting so much pain. She was also going through a depression after the crash and this fucker didn’t even try to sympathize with her or realize she was going through it. He is such an asswhole of a doctor. My mom wasn’t trying to get more money, she was trying to understand what was wrong with her. He is the one taking advantage of the weak and taking more money from them especially with his wife as hiis pharmacists. Ehhhhhhh!!!
HONESTLY! PEOPLE SHOULD NOT GO TO THIS GUY! HE WILL MAKE YOU SICKER, BY MAKING YOU FEEL LIKE SHIT! GO CALL YOUR MEDICAL PROVIDER/​INSURANCE AND ASK TO CHANGE DOCTORS! THATS WHAT WE DID! YOU WILL BE DOING YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY A FAVOR! NO ONE DESERVES THIS KIND OF TREATMENT, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE GOING TO SOMEONE THAT IS SUPPOSE TO HELP YOU AND HE MOST DEFINITELY DOES NOT DESERVE US!

No kids allowed. first thing the receptionist told me. okay?
Whose going to find me a baby sitter ??
What’s the point of making an appointment if they will take other patients with no appointment and make me wait.
Anyway they have a new office past the Asia market and it’s much bigger but the doctors English is not very good. He’s a complete pervert. Very rude nurse and no privacy when you walk to the back
Ughh
Nice thing pharmacy is right next door.

MALPRACTICE!
Previous reviews, along with my own, proves that this evil man does not deserve to be called a doctor. I am writing on behalf of my mom who went to this man for a physical and was incorrectly diagnosed with TB. She was prescribed high dosages of medication that not only was extremely expensive and unnecessary, but most importantly ones that sent her to the ER for a week. It was unfortunate that she had to go to the ER, but the real doctors there were able to correctly diagnose her. If she had not gone in, she would have continued paying for expensive meds that made her sick to her stomach for nine months, stayed quarantined to her room at home with a mask, missed the birth of her granddaughter, work and life in general.
Mr. Hoi K. Trinh not only incorrectly diagnosed her, but also made it difficult to solve the situation. He refused to sign disability paperwork (the ones she needed because of the missed work due to the «TB» that she had) and now refuses to sign paperwork to transfer her to a new doctor. This man takes advantage of people like my mom who doesn’t speak English well and does not know how to go about taking care of associated paperwork and etc.
I write this so that no one else will have to go through such misery. Please stay away from this man and also take action if you have already had to deal with his malpractice. He can’t get away with this!

Super janky. Unprofessional. Not legit.
First of all, the waiting rooms had a beach chair for the patients to be examined in. Wtf.
Secondly, «Dr. «Hoi Trinh came in with half of his shoes on. He spoke broken English mixed with sloppy Vietnamese. I don’t really have a problem with how he spoke, as long as my grandma understood. But he is probably the most inconsiderate and uncaring doctor ever. He didn’t tend to the needs of my grandmother at all. We asked what was the problem and he avoided it. He kept pushing to give her a shot so we could leave and said «if it works then good, if it doesn’t then it won’t kill you». What the actual fuck. Every answer he gave us ended with a «maybe, maybe not». After my cousin interrogated his reasons for the prescription he just sent us off with more painkillers.
Oh. And if you do choose to come here, expect to be prescribed with 10 different medications. Why? Because his wife’s pharmacy is just right next door. They’re just feeding business to each other.
After this visit, we transferred my grandmother to a legit clinic right away.

Avoid this place like the plague. The doctor is completely unprofessional and left me feeling sick to my stomach. I have never felt so uncomfortable at a doctor’s office as I have at this location.

If there was a ZERO STAR I would put that, I can’t post a review without putting a star so I put one. But HONESTLY, I will straight up give this guy a zero. My mom went to him & he shows no respect or anything. EVERYTIME I went with my mom also, he would just yell and act really disrespectful to everyone. When he is saying something, it doesn’t even make sense most of the time. He doesn’t even care about his patients. Don’t come to him, he won’t care. It seems like his machines arent even correct. I don’t understand why he’s even a doctor. He needs his license as a doctor taken away. He doesn’t care and he’s really disrespectful. DO NOT GO TO HIM.

Let me start by saying that I am a doctor in training & came here for a physical exam. I am appalled at his lack of professionalism, compassion, & skills as a physician in general. For example, his blood pressure machine malfunctioned & read my pressure as borderline hypertensive when I’m normotensive. Common medical protocol is to retake the pressure manually to double check again. Instead, he was too lazy to retake, blamed it on the machine, & recorded the incorrect reading. Another example is that I made my appointment & arrived on time. The receptionist told me to return later in the afternoon because he was booked. The purpose of an appointment is to reserve a specific time for the patient. His employees are unprofessional & rude just like him!
In addition, his medical knowledge is archaic, meaning that he was trained in Vietnam years ago & is not up-​to-​date with his medical knowledge (I know this because I asked him specific questions that he answered wrong). He also rushed through the encounter & was very inconsiderate. He is arrogant & talks down to patients. Sadly to say, most of his patients are elderly Vietnamese people who do not speak English & do not have the means to switch doctors due to language barriers, insurance reasons, etc. That is why he is still in business. Put him in another community & he would not survive with that type of service.
Overall, do not waste your time & money to see this physician. He is a disgrace to the medical community. Properly trained doctors do not act like him. I agree with previous posts on here that his license should be revoked.

Like the 2 previous reviews wish I can give the F**king doc and their front staff star! Doc don’t know how to diagnose my mom knew she has pain on her knees. I asked if she can see a specialist and if we need to do knee surgery. Kept saying no she is not a candidate for it since she is old and she can’t really walk. Dumbass she can’t walk cuz she is in PAIN! Finally MRI came back and now he says she can have 70% recovery if she has surgery. The front desk older lady has no service and she don’t even know how to smile and no courtesy or compassion for the patients. It’s like she is mad at this whole world. If you don’t like working there then quit your job! Idiot!

I really would give ZERO stars to him. Horrible person who doesn’t deserve to be called a doctor. He doesn’t care about his patients & he definitely doesn’t care about his workers. He yells at them in front of patients & has no filter in what he says. I was there with my mom quite some time ago to help translate for my mom & was he HORRIBLE. He said directly to me that he doesn’t get paid anything because my mom has medical. He said if my mom went to a different doctor, he wouldn’t care. I was so taken aback, I was speechless. If you’re a doctor, you should BE a doctor & help others out. My mom now has a new doctor after this incident. He’s a horrible person, inhumane, & doesn’t deserve to see the life of others. DO NOT GO TO HIM! HE IS NOT TRUSTWORTHY TO HAVE YOURS OR YOUR PARENTS’ LIVES IN HIS HANDS. he needs his license as a doctor taken away & put into a nursing home.

If it’s possible to put zero stars, I would. I’ve never met a more horrible uncaring doctor in my life. It makes me wonder why some people want to be a doctor when they have zero compassion for humanity. There would probably be more Unilocal reviews if his patients didn’t consist of mostly older asians in South Sac who speak little to no English, let alone know what Unilocal is, like both my parents who go to him. My parents are typically healthy but elderly and their insurance plans only allow them to see him as their primary physician. Each and every time they’ve NEEDED to go for something, Dr. Trinh just seems to not care and made up some excuse for them feeling unwell like «oh, you are just getting older… blah blah blah» rather than actually giving them a real examination. He prescribes some pain medication or other and send them on their way, dismissing any real symptoms that constantly pains them. My dad has so much pain in his shoulder which he sees the doctor for but Dr. Trinh just gives him some pills and says that my dad is getting old. Maybe, my dad is. But for pain that constantly aggravates only one side of his body, shouldn’t the doctor at least examine him first? Dr. Trinh’s examines usually consists of a whole bunch of talking, little examining, and writing whatever pain prescription he feels necessary that day. If it doesn’t work, he ups the dosage. I tell my parents to never take meds prescribed by him without looking twice because he has given them the wrong kind of prescription before. (If anyone needs a time line of events or exact story, feel free to message me and I will email you my family’s story.). Below is my mom’s harrowing story or Dr. Trinh.
My mom who has never gotten into an accident or had surgery before in her life, got into a bad accident last year. She was in constant pain and started to develop depression. Being from a foreign country where depression isn’t much talked about, she didn’t even know what it was or that it’s perfectly normal post-​accidents for many people. She thought she was going to die soon from the pain in her body and didn’t understand why she felt the way she did. Dr. Trinh usually just prescribes her pain meds and sometimes meds for blood thinning then sends her off. She begged Dr. Trinh to refer her to specialists and asked if it would be possible to get MRIs or X-​ray her body. Instead of being compassionate and doing all he could for her, he said she was just old and her body would be in more pain then someone much younger. Now, mind you, my mom’s been pretty healthy all her life and she still looks like she’s in her mid 40s even now in her late-​50s. He later even went so far as to accuse her of trying to get money through the accident like «so many of the old asian people here in Sacramento». He says he sees it all the time, people who try to get money from accidents. My mom cried, as did I. Never in her life has anyone said she was a lazy selfish conniving woman. She has worked hard for everything she has ever gotten, and though it’s not even much, she’s still proud that she worked for it. She went home that day crying, feeling like she was useless. She just wanted to get better because she needed to get back to work since my siblings and I were in school still and she wanted to provide for us. She’s always did her best for me and my family but Dr. Trinh crushed her spirit. I write this review through tears thinking about the unjustness she suffered. Anyone who love their parents would understand.
My family ended up hiring a lawyer and a chiropractor for my mom. We didn’t get money from the settlement which went through medical and lawyer bills but it was fine because we got my mom examined at hospitals with real caring doctors and even a neurologist who diagnosed her with depression. Her MRI results showed her neck had a dislocated disk which pressed against her nerves that caused her pain and affected her function on her left side. I remember her neurologist was upset that she had been prescribed blood thinning medication at such a high dosage from Dr. Trinh since it could potentially cause my mom to bleed out if she fell and cracked her head. It was also making her quite dizzy. She stopped taking those pills and her neurologist prescribed her some anti-​depression pills for a couple months and even did acupuncture to relieve some pressure in her brain and body. She is doing much better even though she still isn’t as spirited as she use to be but her being alive and healthy is all I can ask for.
But if we had just listened to Dr. Trinh, my mom would never have gotten better. He really truly doesn’t care about his patients. My parents rarely go see him now and only go if they truly need it. My family is planning to apply for new health insurance and transfer to anyone but him. I’m still young and may not know the world, but I know what it’s like to be a good person and a compassionate human being. Dr. Trinh is neither.