Dr. Johnny Ang Liquete, MD

He is by far the rudest doctor I have ever encountered. He was assigned to me after my c section developed into a septic infection. He would regularly be rude, yell, and call me crazy and stupid. He even called another doctor of mine to tell him I was crazy, loudy, where all of the staff and other patients could hear. His bheavier was so awfuk, his Nurse Practitioner kept apologizing for him when he was out of the room. This was 10 years ago. I nearly died with all the medical papers to prove it, yet he was convinced I was faking it or crazy. Ihaving staph, an infected c section, infected blood, and a blood clot with high fevers and weight loss is not fake. I will never forget him as the worst doctor I have ever come across.

Linda, Dr Liquete's front office assistant who also does BPs and vitals, is one of the most rude and uncaring PERSONS (not medical professionals only) I've ever encountered. She makes getting an appointment nearly impossible and will never work with you to get you in around the indigenous persons that populate the office. Maybe if I spoke Spanish it would be better as she clearly prefers her fellow Hispanic customers. She has no "shame" about saying "no" and simply seems to enjoy her perceived position of power. Once you get past her, the hour long wait between the waiting room and waiting on the doctor in the room, Dr Liquete is a competent doctor whose only weakness might be his discernment in hiring his assistant. No matter how good he is, Linda makes it not worth taking your patronage here. Dr Liquete - fire Linda and let her take her controlling, overbearing personality to the unemployment line where she might learn some good life lessons.

The office staff is truly two of the most un happy people I have ever seen at a doctors office, at my last visit I watched the front office girl sit in her chair watching the doctor look for information on a new medication he was giving me and not did she make a move to help the doctor look for it.

i developed a bone infection requiring several months of IV antibiotics. Fortunately these could be administered at home through the use of a portable pump. I was started on two medications, but within a few days i started developing a reaction to one of them, which began escalating with each use. Finally, on a day before a 3-day holiday i was at physical therapy when i began to develop what was now a pretty severe reaction. My friend had to drive me home, and by the time i got there i had a fever of 104 degrees. fortunately my friend was a nurse and quickly packed me in ice packs, gave aspirin, etc. (i chose not to go to the ER because i knew they would basically do the same thing.)i called Liquete's office, but it was closed for the holiday. On the following Monday i again called the office and attempted to explain what had happened. the girl who answered the phone kept telling me to go to the ER. i repeated that the symptoms had occurred 3 days ago, i had stopped taking that… particular med, and i was just calling to inform the doctor of what happened and find out if he wanted to substitute another medication. I kept being told to the ER. I asked if Liquete was going to meet me there? no. then why were they insisting i go when the symptoms had occurred three days ago? I just kept getting the same answer, as if i were talking to a robot. I said i wasn't going to go and ended the call. Imagine my surprise when two days later i received a letter from Liquete saying that he was no longer going to treat me as i was 'non-compliant.'! He referred me to no other doctor, and in fact there were no other infectious disease specialists in my area. I ended up going to UCLA, 50 miles away just to have someone oversee my treatment.As a postscript: i was recently in the hospital and dr. liquete was assigned to be my infectious disease specialist. After i told him about our previous interaction i told him he was fired and to get out of my room. He mumbled something and stomped out. I have to say i enjoyed the experience immensely.