Dr. Seyed Amir Tahaei, MD

Worst "doctor" I've ever dealt with in my life. I wish to have never known his existence. Arrogant, rude, lies, and speaks to you in a condescending manner. The last meeting I had with him his eyes were bloodshot and didn't give eye contact. He didn't give me an x-ray at my first appointment after I strained my neck & shoulder at work badly. I was so stressed out and in pain but he didn't care and shows it by the way he speaks. Truly doesn't honor doctors oath!!

His office staff calls me 20 minutes before my appointment to see if I could come in early (really?!!) so obviously he wants to leave early. When I get there, his nurse rushes me in the back room (I have chronic back pain and can’t move very fast) . Once Tahaei walks in, the first words out of his mouth are “show me where the pain is.” I asked him if he had a diagram that I could point to because it hurts to reach behind my back and point. He scoffed at me and said, well you’re still going to have to point at something. Then he proceeds to do muscle movement tests (mind you I was so stiff as I only had an hour of sleep the night before I saw him as the pain was so severe. He asked me to raise my arms above my head. I could only go so far so he had the nerve to take his hands and force them to go higher which hurt extremely. This guy is an arrogant *sshole. This has all happened in under two minutes where he concludes to tell me he does know what’s wrong with my back and was going to… leave it at that. Um, no I didn’t drive 30 minutes and pay a copay to see a so called “specialist” to be told I don’t know what’s wrong with you. So I asked him for an MRI, which his response was you don’t need one, 95% of the time they come back normal. I said well give it to me anyways. He again scoffed but signed me up for one. I had to ask him to work with my pysical therapist (that’s his job as a physiatrist) which his words to me were “she’ll see my notes” (really?!) this guy sucks so bad. He doesn’t care about you, he doesn’t do anything he’s supposed to do to help you. Waste of time! Fast forward to the results of my MRI, it came back that I have stage 4 osteoarthritis in my spine and ribs. He’s an idiot! Don’t see him! Go to anyone else! I’m baffled that Kaiser has such an incompetent person working for them.