Dr. Karl Lanocha, MD

One of the very best doctors for treating mental illness.

I would steer clear. Very unempathetic and controlling doctor. He'll likely tell you that you have a chemical imbalance and "need" medications. He'll also likely ramp you use to the max dosages of said narcotic medications until you're physically dependent. He wont help you taper once a dependence forms aswell, he only wants to up my dosages and send me on my way. Very disappointed.

provider of TMS treatment for chronic Major Depression

Dr. Lanocha has terrible bed- side manner and general people skills. Since he is working with a population of individuals who ight or are suffering with mental illness, his personality is ill suited for his position. Run as fast as you can from him!

This "doctor's" the true definition of creepy. He's dishonest and cares about two things; himself and money. He told some patients he was "retiring" to California. He's practicing in Sacramento, CA. and up to the same game.

Does not follow through. I had to keep calling him to remind him to do things we talked about. He contradicts what Bermudes says. He has a completely different idea about tms than Bermudes. Bermudes would tell me one thing and Lanocha would say, Oh thats not right. The $300 office visit consists of him walking in during tms to say Hi how are you feeling, Lasts less than 5 minutes. I'm sure Anthem would like to know about that. The office overcharged me, but will not return phone calls or give me a statement of my account. The office is so unorganized, they scheduled 2 people for the same time several times and blame it on the computer system. When you cancel an appt, they don't always get it in the computer, and then they try to charge you. Just make sure to get everything in writing.

He should have stayed in NH, wish he never would have come to Sacramento, he's the worst!!!

He left me and my wife totally hanging when he closed the tms center for a new job in Sacramento

I would run very, very far away from Dr.Karl Lanocha. I saw him in a deep depression in 1998, when my husband was planning to leave me for another woman after 22 years of marriage and four children. Lanocha told me I had a "Chemical imbalance" and that the good news was that science had advanced so much in the past five years that I could now be treated with safe and effective drugs, which I would have to take for the rest of my life. Over the next two years, I reacted adversely (to say the least; the drugs now carry black box warnings) and my reactions were recorded as symptoms of "mental illness".....after which he deemed it "medically necessary" to electroshock me. I was a successful Folk Artist. A Fellow for The Arts in New Hampshire. I lost everything because of what radio host Dr. Dennis Harris calls "Karl Lanocha's gross malpractice". Save yourself from his pseudo-science brainwashing, don't believe his disease-mongering (NO, Depression is NOT a Disease. No such science supports… such a conclusion) and believe when I say there is no legal recourse to the harm he causes.Depression is grieving. Karl Lanocha is a monster who has proliferated the roles of the mentally disabled and contributed to the 4,000% increase of mental illness since the chemical imbalance myth was invented.