1 /5 Michael Aviles: UCSD Health is absolutely terrible. Lets see. To keep the review short, Ill limit my bad experiences to 3 areas.
1) If you need medical care in any kind of hurry, good luck. From primary care, to travel clinics, to even specialist visits, the wait times are literally months to half a year. Absolutely ridiculous.
2) It definitely feels like a training/learning environment. I had to get a biopsy done and it took two young PAs over an hour to get a non-optimal sample. The procedure should have taken 15 minutes. But instead I got 20+ tiny holes stabbed into my bones on both sides of my body (was only supposed to be one side) because they have incompetent kids straight out of school practicing on patients. Sucks.
3) Trying to get a hold of someone is a nightmare. Generally the messaging is ok, but trying to call in requires so many transfers and runarounds that a lot of the time I just give up.
When I switched from Kaiser, I thought I was upgrading to a more premium provider. Boy was I wrong. Next open enrollment Im sprinting back to Kaiser. UCSD is the worst. Avoid if you can!