Leon Zonia MD

My intuition tells me that most of the people who come through this office do not have health insurance. The patients are mostly lower-​class and I’m guessing their parents don’t know any better or else Leon would be out of business with her medical license revoked. Wait time was around 45 minutes, on average. Office is dirty-​ish, needing new flooring and paint.
Dr Leon didn’t take enough time to notice that I had any questions, she was in such a hurry to get out of there. She did stay long enough to give us one very telling piece of advice: «Give your kids more chocolate milk.» I take a lot of time to prepare nutritious food for my children. I found her advice to be extremely offensive because it shows a lack of professional knowledge in nutrition– something that is a responsibility of any pediatrician to know!- especially a pediatrician who sees a majority of lower-​class patients who are at a high risk for obesity!
Every referral she’s ever given us has been absolutely useless either because; (1) because she does not take any time to consider whether or not you have insurance, (2) whether or not you live within a decent proximity to the referred doctor, and (3) because her office staff is completely inadequate in writing referrals with the proper codes.
My daughter needed speech therapy and even though we have insurance, she gave us a referral to LA Regional Center. My daughter was evaluated, which took MONTHS, then only to find that because we have insurance she actually needed to be evaluated by someone in our health care network. So here we go again, starting the whole process over, 6 months later. Leon wouldn’t admit that she made a mistake in doing that and even dropped us as patients when I told her she was wrong, which really sets us back even further on the speech therapy front.