Pico Women’s Medical Group

I came here because my sister told me to, it was my first baby and I didn’t know what I was doing really? So I went, dr Peart will make you feel crazy for worrying about anything –_​– there’s ghetto women in there talking about vulgar things while there’s kids in there and have no damn shame! Oh, and my delivery? He fell asleep while I was pushing. I started crying from pain and he said not to be loud. Like, wtf? And then, to make it worse he said I was taking too long, got a vacuum (the surgical ones) and «helped» me and TORE ME. He’s an ass, I’d give him less but I can’t. Every now and then one of his nurses will call for my check up, HELL NO. I am not going this time around, he’s not a caring doctor. Does not respect you, won’t even answer your questions with a good answer. Cannot stress it enough, he’s horrible. What doctor falls asleep on his patient? And then wakes up angrily and tells them they’re taking to long!

Dr peart has delivered a few babies in my family. He almost help me with my son in 08 but had to change doctors because he did not want to perform tubiligation at time of c-​section.
Now I have some health issues and decided to go back to his office and let me say horrible experience. Nurses are rude they had me come in i sat for fourty minutes just to hear I could not be seen. Spoke to the office manager and that was pointless because she did nothing but sit there and look at me like oh well.
It was very hot and uncomfortable in the office no a.c. I don’t know what happened to customer service but that office for sure needs a refreshing course on patient care and needs. I would not recommend this office to anyone. A lot has changed from the old days just not a professional setting.

Maybe he’s good for pregnancies. I can’t speak to that because I saw him for as a regular OBGYN– and as my regular OBGYN, for me, he was terrible.
In addition to wait times of 3+ hours past the scheduled appointment (including 45 very chilly minutes between «get undressed, the doctor will see you now» and Dr. Peart actually showing up and spending 5 minutes in the room), Dr. Peart’s attention to detail and ability to listen leaves a LOT to be desired.
After suffering a miscarriage and coming in to see the doctor about discomfort, he poked me in the stomach and when that hurt, he diagnosed a bladder infection and prescribed heavy-​duty antibiotics. I insisted on a test to make sure that’s what it was, and he said they’d call with the results when they were ready…
…a week later, they hadn’t called and the antibiotics weren’t making things better– I actually felt worse. So I called THEM, and lo and behold the nurse said, «oh yeah, the urine culture came back negative. You don’t have an infection.» So I’d been taking powerful antibiotics which wrecked my stomach for NO REASON, and they hadn’t even called to let me know. (This inability to communicate with patients would be repeated with my pap smear, which I didn’t find out had come back abnormal till **months** later, when I went in to switch my birth control and the nurse casually threw out, «your last Pap was abnormal so you should have another soon I guess.»)
When I made another appointment, Dr. Peart was unconcerned with his misdiagnosis and told me I probably had «irritable bladder syndrome» (?!?) handed me some Steroid samples (which have serious side effects, and shouldn’t be used so blithely) and told me to take them till something changes. I looked up the symptoms of Irritable Bladder Syndrome when I got home, and I had ONE out of 8 typical symptoms.
He prefers throwing pills at a problem till something sticks to spending the time to make a through diagnosis.
(I ended up going to an out-​of-​network doctor who, through listening to my symptoms and two ultrasounds, diagnosed complications from the miscarriage and solved the whole freaking problem with zero medication. Worth every penny.)
I also take a medication which requires a new script to be written for every refill– 3 out of 5 times Dr. Peart has messed up writing the script so my pharmacy is unable to fill it. Either forgetting to write the date, or not putting the dose on the script, or prescribing the **wrong freaking medication**– I’ve ended up having to make multiple trips back to his office so he can fix his mistake, and I’ve never gotten any apology from him or his front office staff for the inconvenience. Instead, I’ve been treated like the inconvenience for asking him to fix it!
This doctor is cruising on auto-​pilot, and provides one-​size-​fits-​all diagnoses. If you care about your health, I would NOT suggest going to Dr. Peart– I’d suggest staying FAR away.

a.) Unprofessional — during my yearly exam, no nurse was in the room. Which I thought was odd.
b.) REFUSED to provide any type of referral — (1) Dr. Peart blatantly told me that he would not refer me to a dermatologist because he didn’t «think» I have skin cancer — even though he refused to look at any of the 40 freckles/​moles that I have all over my body. (2) He then told me that even though the bulging vein I have on the back of my leg causes so much pain and often stings while driving — making it impossible to push in the clutch to switch gears — I probably don’t have anything to worry about and even if he did refer me to someone that they wouldn’t do anything about it other than tell me to wear compression socks. (3) i have mild acne and could he would not refer me to a dermatologist for this because he couldn’t feel any cysts on my face — even though he admitted that the scab on my face was from a cyst. (4) i told him a have back pain everyday. so before he would write a referral for a chiropractor, he asked tons of questions. some of the questions were impossible to recall because i’ve been in pain so long it all runs together. i told him i don’t keep a journal for back pain. because I couldn’t pinpoint exactly what movements make it feel worse, he wouldn’t refer. I explained that it’s difficult to pinpoint things when I’m always in pain.
c.) Too much time — I am not sure what the point of scheduling an appointment is. I had an appointment at 11:30am and Dr. Peart did not see me until after 1:00pm.
I would definitely not recommend Dr. Peart to anyone, including my worst enemy. Any doctor that uses excuses to not make a referral is worthless. He kept saying that the director of my medical group would most likely deny the referral, so he wouldn’t give it to me. he referred to himself as the «gatekeeper.» Yet when he admitted to seeing my problem areas, but since he didn’t THINK any of them were serious (again, without actually looking at them up close), he wouldn’t help. What’s the point of having insurance if i can’t use it for medical purposes?

I’ve been going to Dr. Peart for 12 years now. He performed my moms uterine fibroid surgery, delivered 3 of my cousins and my mom insisted that he be the one to deliver my 1^st child. I’m 37 weeks pregnant now but so far Dr. Peart has been very patient and informative. He has a pretty dry sense of humor which I think rubs some people wrong. Yes the wait can be long so I usually schedule appointments at 930am. Staff is friendly, rooms are clean and top reason for recommending him is he’s the only doctor I know who will take your phone call anytime.

The good: This office takes Medi-​Cal. The nurses who do bloodwork in the back are great– they made things pretty painless for that portion even if their English was a bit broken.
The bad: Everything else
Want to be seen in a timely manner? This isn’t your place.
Want a Dr that actually cares to listen to your problems who will not talk to you in a condescending manner? This isn’t your place.
First visit:
I arrived 30 minutes early thinking that paperwork would need to be filled out. It did. I filled it out in waiting room 1 as I looked around the office. I didn’t feel like I was on the West side anymore. When did I enter Compton? (Note: No offense Compton!)
After filling the normal forms asking about history and potential things wrong (which I am convinced weren’t even read in the first place) you then can go into room 2. On this first visit I sat there for an hour and a half before I was seen for my «scheduled appointment». While it’s great for the one dr here on duty, it isn’t for any potential patient who has other things to do…
Next I see the nurse to do bloodwork and the urine sample. Normal stuff. Friendly lady back there. She made the bloodwork portion (which is a lot for a first time visit) as painless as possible.
Alright Dr time finally. Kind of. The Dr was receiving phone calls from patients as well as making calls while I was in the office for my appointment. Awesome. Ok well here goes some questioning…
and more questioning
and more
But see it wasn’t just the standard stuff about being pregnant. It was… well… quite a bit extra. «What religion are you?» «Where’s the father?» «How does he feel about all of this?» etc.
The staff was rude and condescending from everything start to ultimate finish.
Dr refused to even discuss a normal birth after c-​section. Got upset when I said that I might end up getting a second opinion. I probably should have known then that it wasn’t going to work out. Dr Peart simply doesn’t give a care. He will take anyone because that’s how he must seem to have any business at all.
Ended up parting this ways after begging the doctor to give me something for symptoms that he ignored on multiple visits. At the last visit he took it as a thing to instead of showing empathy and, heh, doing his job to help figure out the problem might be, thought that it’d be better to just argue with me and ask me what I thought was wrong with me, etc. Oh and don’t even think about mentioning anything regarding less than happiness with this guy. He doesn’t care in the slightest and will just tell you that you’re basically stuck dealing with whatever it is rather than display any sort of empathy.
When I transferred doctors they took their sweet time with getting any paperwork done. It had to be done in the office to request the transfer not over a fax, etc. They also did not submit any of the answers to said questions they insisted on asking and what not, thereby not completely complying with releasing all the records per what they were supposed to.
Don’t feel like there’s no where else to go and stay going at this horrific doctor. Find someone that actually cares. This guy doesn’t.
On the positive: had I not had this experience I might not have had the AMAZING experience I have been receiving since I went back to Medi-​Cal and was placed at UCLA. If you are in the area and in need of a dr due to pregnancy but don’t have a ton of money, request UCLA. You don’t need to settle for a less than fantastic dr like Dr. Peart.

Dr. Peart was the doctor that delivered me as a baby! awesome right!!! lol
Anywho.hes a really great doctor. I love his attentiveness and prompt service. The office is spacious and clean and in a good location. All the nurses are friendly and professional. All my past appointments I’ve only waited about 15 – 20 mins. max and you can also walk in anytime before 3:30. He can get busy but to me he does his best to see all his patients in a timely manner.

Dr. Peart is a fantastic doctor.
The reason for 4 stars, is that his waiting room is really really busy.
Other than the small waiting area, I would recommend him to all women!