Dr. Thaila Ramanujam, MD

I’ve worked with doctors professionally for the last 20 years and I just have to say that it’s Disservice to patients to have your new doctor communicating with patients the way she does. Never in my years… I would give zero stars if I could and that’s no reflection of Rhamanujam. Patients who get shifted from one Dr to another not a fault of their own should never be made feel by staff or the doctor that it is. Hopefully they can work on that. It is an awful burden for a patient to bare when they been waiting a month to tell your Rheumatologist the symptoms that you experienced after the latest initiation of a new medication… As well as follow up on how things change since stopping the last one.. Instead of finding a caring ear I was turned away with no answers…unheard ...told to follow up with your primary regarding the symptoms you experienced on a rheumatological medication… Awful. Very poor management of care. Deeply disappointed with this experience…..1 1/2 yrs later Dr.… Rhaminugen a banded me as a patient after trying to pond me off on Stanford I follow through with her recommendation to get their opinion and she claimed that I didn't follow her recommendations because I listen to what they said. She then terminated our patient relationship without even telling me why only sending me a note in the mail. A pattern I hear she has. By the comments that were left here previously. I am told by my primary she's overwhelmed because she nearly lost her practice when she tried to take on a colleague and doubled her patient load. That person has since left and she now had has she told me over 2000 patients which is why she needed Stanford's help with me because I was complicated. Stanford didn't agree with her diagnosis or treatment plan and they said that they would reach out to her to explain why. She claims to never have gotten the message on multiple occasions so now Stanford told me they would be putting all further communication to her with a signed receipt that it was opened. My family feels due to her agitated response to me that she blames me for that 2000 patient caseload that she is having trouble managing. I will look at that letter as a door being opened to a new road of hopefully way better communication because this was by far the worst and most uncomfortable doctors experience I have ever had. I have been with the same doctors for the past 15 years and it just feels like I wasn't being heard and if you didn't fit into their box they were going to find a way to criticize you to defend their point.

My partner saw Dr. Thalia Ramanujam for about 9 months for ongoing severe neck, shoulder and arm pain. Not only was she ineffective, her advice was incorrect and actually dangerous. She started by prescribing several months of PT and several rounds of lab work. It was extremely hard to get an appointment (as others have mentioned) as she was on/off vacation frequently. After a couple months, the pain worsened. We repeatedly asked for X-rays or an MRI, and again and again, she denied our request. Instead of trying to find the root cause, she jumped to speculation and prescribing medications. She prescribed Prednisone for my partner. We asked if there were any side effects or anything we should know- and her response was that it was perfectly safe and harmless. We found out later, by doing our own research, that prednisone is a pretty intense steroid and should be ramped on and off. We confirmed this info by calling Dr. Ramanujam's office and confirming with her staff, who said… yes- we should ramp up, and gave us a schedule. She gave us flat out harmful advice. Next she wanted to prescribe Humira- again, speculating at the cause of my partner's pain. We were very leery of following her advice after the Prednisone experience. We declined and asked again for an X-ray or MRI to attempt to diagnose the issue. She refused again and insisted his issue was a rheumatology problem and would not show anything on an X-ray or MRI. We left her office and got treatment from Stanford's rheumatology department and a local primary care physician. The first thing they did was ask why we hadn't gotten an X-ray or MRI to diagnose the issue. The local doctor said that it's customary to send a patient for X-rays after 6 weeks of PT. We endured over 9 months of Dr. Ramanujam's incompetence and she never fulfilled our repeated request for this diagnostic work. The X-rays and MRI came back with issues that have to do with structural damage in my partner's neck. Stanford rheumatology department performed several tests and determined his issue had nothing to do with rheumatology. We wasted a ton of money on chasing PT that didn't work, lab tests that were ineffective, and prescriptions that were not treating the core issue due to Dr. Ramanujam. Most importantly, we wasted months and months of my partner in severe pain, so much that he had to go on disability, because of her incompetence. Save yourself some time, money and sanity and go to a quality doctor that will actually listen to your concerns and work with you on your care.