Dr. Rick Chavez, MD

He is a fraud. Be very careful of this one.

He moved to Prime Wellness Community Health, rude condescending, causes more harm than good. Don't waste your time with this fool.

What some of these reviews are saying are true. He treated me for nerve damage for 4 yrs starting with the highest dose, come to find out kept me on a high dosage which was helpful , for those 4 yrs. All of a sudden, one visit , i became a drug seeker and has been lowering my dose . No reason . He has become very belligerent to me for no apparent reason. Told me to find another doc, knowing i cannot get off those pills with the pain i have. Think he is setting me up 4 an expensive detox situation. He knows everthing and will never listen too u. And it is true , he tells you that you will never get better,and that u would be wasting your time with another doctor

He should go and practice in Mexico. Lousy, rude, and on drugs himsef. He know nothing else to do about pain except giving medications and he called himself pain institute! Bad manner, loud mouth, money hungry

I wasnt a patient. I was with a friend. He was yelling at her..literally yelling. Told her she was never going to get better period. He was very rude

Doesn’t listen to patient very rude and doesn’t keep his word

This family medicine doctor is not a pain specialist. The only pain specialists doctors must have done a speciality in either anesthesiolgy, neurology, psychiatry, or physical medicine and rehabilitation. He doesn't know much about medicine and spend his time badmouthing about other physicians to get paid. What a piece of work He should go back to his country of origin where there is no hippocrat oath

Should go practice in mexico and not the US.

Stay away from this doctor unless you like waiting over an hour and a half to see the Dr. This doctor has fits and will call you names, hit or kick the wall when he is mad. He wants to only give you pain pills and get you hooked then offer you treatment to get you off the dope he got you on in the first place. The first 4 years that I saw him he seemed to help but the last 4 years something happened. He lost all of his staff and moved into a very small office. This has happened to myself and my wife who was seeing him.

I wish that if you want to leave a review, please do a little background on what you talking about. NOW DR. CHAVEZ has 31 years of practice in medicine and is BOARD CERTIFIED IN PAIN MEDICINE (ABPM), BOARD CERTIFIED ADDICTION MEDICINE (ABAM), BOARD CERTIFIED FAMILY MEDICINE (ABFM), EXPERT CONSULTANT TO THE CALIFORNIA MEDICAL BOARD and CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL, DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY (DEA), FBI, LA COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY, As far as the doctor being courteous, I don't care as long as he knows how to treat me, I'm looking for medical treatment not friends.