Thipa Urgent Care

Outstanding service!!! My son, now 4 years old, has been seen several times for reasons ranging form EMERGENCY, to simple stitches… every visit has been excellent. The doctors are VERY thorough. In 2012 my son was brought in with sever vomiting and abdominal pain, Dr. Michael Tarnay was amazing! Dr. T quickly diagnosed my son with intussusception (a serious but treatable intestinal fold). One call to the ER and my son was seen and treated at Torrance Memorial Medical Center without a wait. I can not say how grateful my husband and I are for Dr. Tarnay’s expertise, knowledge, and his extraordinary caring personality to go with it!
A second visit brought us back to the urgent care a few months later. My son fell at the mall splitting his ear open. Again, the doctors and staff quickly stitched up my boy and we were on our way in no time.
Just recently, actually on St. Patrick’s Day my son was sick again :-(. We went to the urgent care on Sunday then his symptoms first began, and again the doctors were very thorough. Unfortunately we did end up in the ER on Tue, but the advise Dr. Hasek gave us was very reassuring, which helped my husband and I know when to panic and most importantly when not to.
I really want to recognize when good efficient care is given (being a mom of 4, trust me I know). I really want to commend the doctors for having such a wonderful bedside manner. Family and kids mean everything to you, so it is always nice when you come across caring doctors and staff that make a world of difference when your loved ones are ill !!!
The Zeller’s :-)

The woman who examined me was great — she gets a ⁵⁄₅. HOWEVER, it seems a common practice for the front desk staff to ask you verbally, in front of the whole waiting room, the purpose of your visit. This is the third time they have done this. This is ridiculous and a violation of privacy no matter how mundane the reason of your visit is. If their reason for doing this is they’re going paperless, great, then give us an ipad or a laptop to fill out a form. Additionally, I understand that the front desk staff are privy to our records and reasons for visits, but they do not have medical degrees and the act of verbally telling them versus writing it down feels like an act of confidence we shouldn’t have to go through. They know either way, so a person could argue that it amounts to the same thing, however it does not FEEL the same, and all the other people in the waiting room should have absolutely nothing to do with it at all. PLEASE CHANGE THIS PROCEDURE.