Dr. Jonathan Jahangir Ahdoot, MD

I am writing this with a heavy heart. I must say this incident was and still is hard to comprehend that a medical doctor, like Dr. Ahdoot can be so cold hearted. My husband has been a Dr. Ahdoot’s patient for years. About two months ago, they found a suspicious nodules in his lungs from a routine check. We were advised to go see Dr. Ahdoot for a PET scan to check if they are cancerous. During the visit, I corrected Dr. Ahdoot for his minor mistake and it was very obvious that he didn’t like that. Since then, it was almost impossible to get hold of him. After the PET scan was done, we have been calling his office for the results everyday for two weeks. Each time Maria at the front desk said the doctor has the results and review them “when he can”. After we couldn’t get a word from Dr. Ahdoot about the results, I went to the office out of desperation. When I saw the doctor at the office, he yelled at me in front of other patients. Finally, we had to giving up getting results from Dr.… Ahdoot, it was very obvious that he would not give us any reports out of being vengeful. We changed to a new pulmonologist and we were immediately found out from a new doctor that my husband has a lung cancer! So, consequently, this is what that Dr. Ahdoot has done to us. Looking at the PET scan results right in front of him on the desk, clearly it shows that my husband has a lung cancer, he would not pick up the phone and let us inform that he has a lung cancer, just because he was mad at me (for pointing a minor, insignificant error). Thanks to our new pulmonologist, my husband is done with the radiation treatments and recuperating well. Meanwhile, it has been almost three months, we haven’t heard from Dr. Ahdoot. He wouldn’t know that my husband is done with the cancer treatments. In other words, he would be probably think that he risked my husband’s life by not letting him know that he has a lung cancer, and he is perfectly fine with that. And I am sure he has been sleeping very well with that. Dr. Ahdoot should not be a doctor and I will do everything in my power to let the medical association know what kind of doctor he is.

Negative 10 or more stars His inept actions were directly responsible for my Mom suffocating and dying, after he went against all protocols and the direct orders written in her chart, and he extubated her anyways. Nov 4, 2000

I wish I could give zero stars. Dr. Ahdoot was the pulmonologist which Hoag Hosp in Irvine referred my elderly father to because he was on staff or on call that day when an x-ray revealed a 4 cm. lump in my father's lung. A biopsy and bronchoscopy was scheduled and performed. I wasn't there but the RN caregiver for my dad and my mother reported he was uncommunicative to them. My mother tried repeatedly to make that follow-up appointment and never got a call back. Being more tenacious, I was finally able to schedule an appointment for them, after being disconnected repeatedly. The two office girls speak very rapidly in hard-to-understand English. As for follow-up, my Dad was too weak to come into the office even via wheelchair, and I told the office girl this. She suggested a gurney transport which we were not able to arrange. We requested a phone call in place of a visit. We never got a call from Dr. Ahdoot after multiple messages. There is a complete lack of communication… from this dr and his office staff. I did finally get the biopsy result showing a benign result after ten days of requesting. "Maria" in the office said she sent it when she did not. This required more phone calls by me. The biopsy was supposedly "negative" or benign, but this turned out to be a false finding. The hospitalist at Hoag, a Dr. Liao, a month later admitted it was a failed biopsy, meaning insufficient material was removed or tested. The eventual diagnosis was metasticized lung cancer and bone cancer, resulting from colon cancer many years prior. All drs. missed this upon my Dad's first hospitalization, even though his CEA marker was 76.2 we found out LATER. Oh but Dr. Ahdoot wanted to perform ANOTHER procedure a month after the first biopsy, a transthoracic biopsy, so Medicare could be billed once again. (My father passed a mere week after this proposed transthoracic procedure.) Dr. Ahdoot is not interested in communicating or providing actual care of a patient, only in performing procedures in hospital so he can bill Medicare more. The only way I finally got to speak to him on the phone was because a VA dr. suggested I press the selection on the phone that I was a dr. or a hospital. When he did finally appear at my Dad's hospital room door, he was all charm, and I held my tongue to him so as to not upset my father, who passed less than a week after that day. Horrible patient care and communication both from this "dr" and his office staff. I suggest if he is the pulmonologist recommended to you while you are in an acute care facility, that you decline and choose another dr.

I wish I could give zero stars. Dr. Ahdoot was the pulmonologist which Hoag Hosp in Irvine referred my elderly father to because he was on staff or on call that day when an x-ray revealed a 4 cm. lump in my father's lung. A biopsy and bronchoscopy was scheduled and performed. I wasn't there but the RN caregiver for my dad and my mother reported he was uncommunicative to them. My mother tried repeatedly to make that follow-up appointment and never got a call back. Being more tenacious, I was finally able to schedule an appointment for them, after being disconnected repeatedly. The two office girls speak very rapidly in hard-to-understand English. As for follow-up, my Dad was too weak to come into the office even via wheelchair, and I told the office girl this. She suggested a gurney transport which we were not able to arrange. We requested a phone call in place of a visit. We never got a call from Dr. Ahdoot after multiple messages. There is a complete lack of communication… from this dr and his office staff. I did finally get the biopsy result showing a benign result after ten days of requesting. "Maria" in the office said she sent it when she did not. This required more phone calls by me. The biopsy was supposedly "negative" or benign, but this turned out to be a false finding. The hospitalist at Hoag, a Dr. Liao, a month later admitted it was a failed biopsy, meaning insufficient material was removed or tested. The eventual diagnosis was metasticized lung cancer and bone cancer, resulting from colon cancer many years prior. All drs. missed this upon my Dad's first hospitalization, even though his CEA marker was 76.2 we found out LATER. Oh but Dr. Ahdoot wanted to perform ANOTHER procedure a month after the first biopsy, a transthoracic biopsy, so Medicare could be billed once again. (My father passed a mere week after this proposed transthoracic procedure.) Dr. Ahdoot is not interested in communicating or providing actual care of a patient, only in performing procedures in hospital so he can bill Medicare more. The only way I finally got to speak to him on the phone was because a VA dr. suggested I press the selection on the phone that I was a dr. or a hospital. When he did finally appear at my Dad's hospital room door, he was all charm, and I held my tongue to him so as to not upset my father, who passed less than a week after that day. Horrible patient care and communication both from this "dr" and his office staff. I suggest if he is the pulmonologist recommended to you while you are in an acute care facility, that you decline and choose another dr.

This doctor will ask you to do a sleep study right away, no matter what you go see him for. The sleep center is owned by him and at his office. He turns his office into a sleep study center at night, with pull down beds. Then he will bill you and your insurance tons of money. The sleep study is no good. JUST AVOID HIM.

Amazing Doctor, Amazing Staff, excellent service. he even calls you to inform you of your test result even when he is on vacation, he truly cares for his patients!

This has to be the most rude and arrogant (and questionably incompetent) doctor in Orange County. I wouldn't take my dying dog to see this doctor. I was referred to this doctor ( not by choice), his diagnosis was that it was "all in my head," and all I needed for the headache that I was having nonstop for over a month ( a symptom that the other doctor wanted me to discuss with him) was a massage because I was too tense then to top it off he tells me it ALL could because at "47 I was very close if not already in menopause"!!!!! Well I guarantee that it wasn't menopause! After going to a competent doctor, who actually listened to what happened and over the course of a month ran a series of tests that determined that my lungs were PERMANENTLY damaged! It's been determined by the State of California that I have a 20% permanent lung disability and will need doctor's care for the rest of my life! Far cry from it being "all in my head" and "menopause."

We had gone to Irvine Emergency 3 different times , seen by 3 ER Dr.s. and each time they would give us different antiboticis for my husband to take , his temperature at the beginning was 103 and by the 3rd time it was up to 105 the third time, they put him in ice and called a specialist Dr. Jon Ahdoot, he called for different labs to be done on my husband and he found that my husband had diverticitsis in extreme situation he immediately called for surgery removed 18" of intestin and he was on the mends by the time the doctor came out of surgery by the 1st day he was able to talk he said he was feeling better. Dr. saved my husband.

one word THE BEST

Dr. Ahdoot has treated me for over 20 years. I am blessed to have him for my doctor. He has saved my life more than once. He has always been detail oriented, kind, compassionate, thorough & caring. He is extremely knowledgeable & has a great network of other doctors he interacts with, in case you need a different kind of specialist. I trust him with my life, all my healthcare & that of my families. I consider him to be more than my doctor, he is my friend & like family to us. You will not find better care anywhere.