Divya Kini, MD

I’ve been seeing Dr. Kini for a few months now and I think she’s a pretty good Doctor. I gave her a three stars because of her staff! I was recently seen by her not long ago! I feel that Dr. Kini needs to in service a COUPLE of her staff members on PATIENT PRIVACY!!! I’m not kidding! I’m sitting in the waiting area and I hear this person talking to the doctor out loud and basically putting a few patients FIRST and LAST Name and business out there where I could Clearly Hear!!! I mean hello??? You do work in healthcare and Im sure you know about the HIPAA Law… Am I right!!! I wouldn’t want my name and medical business out there!!! I regret not saying anything to the staff and hope that Dr. Kini will address this matter to her staff!!!

dr kini is the best! shes one of the nicest doctor you gonna meet! staffs are always cool and very professional. dont listen to this Ray L. shes not even a patient of dr kini LOL its her husband. and shes trying to be perfectionist but keep trying hard. lol i dont always hate but when i do its to those people who likes to ruin someone else’s life or business and giving false statements.

Dr Kini is really nice with me and my husband. She is very attentive about our concern and recommends accordingly. For annual checkup or other lab work, the papers are mailed by her office staff, thus avoiding unnecessary office visit. Her office staff is wonderful and calls for reminder and query call back too.

O. k so if you have read all my other reviews on here then you’ll see that they are all mostly about my car. However, in this case, because of the courteous, polite and caring treatment I received as a patient at Dr. Kini’s office, I am compelled to write this review about medicine.
I came in to see Dr. Kini as a new patient and she was very kind, attentive and genuinely concerned with my medical needs. She walked into the room, took a look at me, diagnosed, and pertinently prescribed what I needed. Although the medication didn’t work, Dr. Kini DID mention that to me and also that she would refer me to a specialist if the need arose.
Any review would typically end here, but in this case it does not because of Dr. Kini’s warmhearted staff, which adds icing on the cake.
Over the next couple of days, Dr. Kini’s receptionist or medical assistant, Lauren, catered to my needs like those of a toddler in need of his mother. Being that I needed to be referred to a specialist, her and I discussed my existing condition on numerous occasions, and never did she once seem frustrated, inpatient or change her tone of voice with all my questions. Furthermore, she returned all my voice messages within minutes on each occasion. I finally ended up seeing the specialist thanks to Lauren’s warm attention, and everything was all better.
Did I mention how she genuinely asked «How is it? Better or the same?» on more than one instance through out my entire treatment period? Probably not, but she did.
5 stars for Dr. Kini and Lauren for illustrating how top notch medical care is still prevalent.
Thanks! =)

I changed jobs and had to leave my wonderful dr of 10 years. I hate going to the dr, but needed to get a primary care physician so made an appt for me and my husband. I have a few perscriptions I wanted to get refilled, or explore alternitives, and generally wanted to establish a relationship with a new dr. Ha! What a mistake on my part. I lieterally left her office in tears. At one point during tehe appt, I litteraly begged for some kind of help. She would not listen to me. At all. Her deminer was ce cold, and the little she did say was so very off from what I was trying to convey it was bizzar. She seemed to be accussing me of mixing medictions, as I was telling her I waasn’t taking them. She had no interest in getig to know me or my history. She clearly didn’t read the forms we’d filled out, and wouldn’t listen to a word I said. I finally got her to at least refill my perscriptions and just left. Cried in the lobby after such an awful, blaming, mean spirited, cold, dr interaction. I will nevver step foot back in that office. However, I will still need to deal with them, since they didn’t bill our appointment as preventative care so we got charged a pretty penny for the worst dr. visit ever.

Dr Divya Kini had been my Primary Care Physician for more than 5 years. Fortunately, I dont have any major health issues so I cannot really comment on how great a doctor she is. I only see her for annual prevention checkups and occasionally for minor health issues. She seems to have this cold demeanor, but I got used to it. I now know that it’s just how she is, maybe it’s a culture thing, she may look cold but it doesn’t mean she doesn’t care about her patients. Proof to that is whenever my husband fail to show up on his follow up checkups (he has some health issues), Dr Divya Kini’s staffs will be calling him and reminding him that the Doctor is looking for him. And I really appreciate that.
But the very reason why I loved and stayed with Dr Divya Kini is because of her wonderful office staffs. The two ladies there are the best — especially the Filipina lady. They are very friendly and efficient. They have everything in order. Records and appointments are seamless. If you have a 9am appointment, expect to be seen at 9am. The latest I waited was 5 minutes! If you need a refill, just call and these ladies will fax your prescription to CVS or wherever right away. As in right away! If you need something communicated to Dr Kini, the ladies will take care of it and will get back to you with Dr. Kini’s response — usually on the very same day. These ladies, especially the Filipina lady, are awesome! I deal with these ladies more than I deal with Dr. Kini so it made my general experience with Dr. Kini wonderful too.

Doctor Kini Is not a good doctor. she did show me she is not concern about my health on 10÷20÷13 my son on the phone and want to talk to her, she gave me a angry face and sake her head do not want to talk to my son, she said I will give you a copy of your health report and bring home, and show to him. what the Heck! my son can not understand of the term of the medical. I demand her to talk to my son. I fell she is not a good doctor at all. her receptionist said she will sent copy to my home. until today I have not receive my medical copies yet! and I agreed with Carolina T I just don’t trust her !

Dr. Kini is amazing! She is very patient and knowledgable. As an added bonus she’s really pretty and has gorgeous staff as well, can’t wait to go back :)

I have read all reviews and will not agree with any of this. I have been with Dr Kini for years, and have transferred my whole family over to her. She is an amazing doctor. She is knowledgeable and if she is not 100% sure, she will research and talk to other doctors, but will not rest until she has all of the answers. She has helped me and pretty much saved my father. I recommend Dr Kini to everybody.

I’ve been a patient for about 4 yrs. Dr Kini is not a specialist, but a general family practice physician. So those with lumps in their boobies or other serious issues need to go see a specialist regardless which general doc they have. Take your own care in your hands.
Dr Kini has recently been prescribing me Crestor, high blood pressure meds, and regular blood work (choose Quest Diagnostics on Campus Dr in Daly City is so much better than the other dumpy place).
They have a part time nutritionist once a week, not sure what day.
The great thing is she uses computers and technology. I don’t have to send any scripts in, everything is automatic on computer through Caremark mail order, or they will call in to your local pharm if you have the info.
I like the quick in and out, since I can’t take much time off from work.

Recent review from my appointment with Dr. Kini the other day. As usual the girl up front is passionate and caring. She roomed me and checked my blood pressure and temperature. Once she was done I sat there looking around the room thinking to myself «I bet this is going to be another 10 second appointment». The next thing you know Dr. Kini walks in and she looks at me and says «what’s wrong» in a non caring manner and then proceeds with the usual breathing check. After she tells me to take a few deep breathes she puts her stethescope away and pulls out the prescription pad just like every other time and starts writting the prescription for some $#!& that I probably don’t need to take. She hands me the prescription and starts to make her way out of the room. I say THANK YOU to Dr. Kini and she barely turns around to acknowledge my thanks. I was right, Dr. Kini was in the room with me for no more than a full minute. I can guarantee that she’s billing my insurance for the full 15 minutes time slot and I’m sure she’s doing that to many other people. She’ll see her patients for a minute but bill your insurance for 15 minutes. I guess she counts the 14 minutes that you took in the waiting room as part of the full 15 minute check up. My days are done with Dr. Kini. My friends who were also patients of Dr. Kini have left due to the same issues. Dr. Kini sucks.

On the plus side: the receptionist was great! I needed a quick last minute appointment and they were able to see me same day.
Dr. Kini is a nice person, I just don’t fully trust her knowledge and experience in medicine. She literally pulled out a pocket handbook and had to look for an answer to what I thought was a pretty basic question… it’s not very comforting and does not make me feel like she knows squat. I have since then changed doctors.

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Even though it’s been awhile since I’ve seen Dr. Kini, I’m compelled to write this review since it was Unilocal that helped me decide to see her. Yes, her office is clean, the receptionist is extremely helpful and scheduling appointments is easy. Dr. Kini is everything everybody has described in being efficient. I saw her for my yearly Woman’s exam. I also had a lump that I found in my breast. After showing it to her she wanted to refer me to a general surgeon off the bat. I always google (research) conditions before presenting them. And I thought it was funny she didn’t immediately request a mammogram; which I would have refused anyway since I was breastfeeding my daughter at the time. (radiation exposure) If you go anywhere such as Web MD, Mayo
those sites suggested treatment is a sonogram and a biopsy if needed. (sonogram over mammogram, since a mass was already found; a sonogram is highly contrasted and therefore can better identify masses as opposed to a mammogram will just confirm the presence of one)
I went through the sonogram and biopsy. Thankfully everything came out negative for cancer. But what I wasn’t told was that I would need follow up on my lump every few months for a year or two. Dr. Kini unfortunately didn’t mention anything to me. I moved a few months after and didn’t think anything of it until my next Dr mentioned it to me. Please take my review into mind when deciding what to do. If you go in for something other than an annual physical, please do some research and be prepared to ask questions about usual procedures regarding your condition. Thankfully after having a follow up on my lump, almost 2 years too late, I’m fine. But I wouldn’t want anything to happen to somebody else.

I was orignally very happy with Dr Kini. She is friendly and it is really easy to get an appointment.
All that changed after I had to get a biopsy. I showed up at the appointment that Dr. Kini’s office made for me. Both my husband and I had taken the day off so that I wouldn’t have to go alone (you arent suppossed to drive after) and we had gotten a babysitter. When I arrived, the hospital said that the doctor had never requested approval for the the procedure with my insurance (it would have ended up costing me $ 10k!). If I wanted to keep my appointment, I would have to sign forms saying that I would pay if the insurance did not approve the procedure! It was 8 am so Dr Kini’s office was of course closed and when I left an urgent message asking for a call back ASAP with the call in #, I NEVER heard back! I ended up calling @ 10 since I had lost my appointment and already had to reschedule for another day (and take another day off work!). Dr Kini’s office tried to blame the hospital, saying that the hospital should have told them approval was needed but I don’t buy that since I asked my new doc if that procedure would be automatically approved and she said no way!
So, if you don’t plan on having anything go wrong with you EVER, she is probably fine for you but don’t count on her staff following up with your insurance.

I used to have Kini as my doctor. She was OK and I hate going to the doctor anyway and try to avoid it at all costs.
Anyway I ended up going in for extreme shoulder pain when I was 6 months pregnant. I was so obviously pregnant that I didn’t think I had to tell her, hey, by the way, if you have not noticed, I’m 6 months pregnant. I figured a doctor would realize or at least ask the question if she was not sure.
So anyway we went through all the shoulder pain things and she started to write me a script for pain killers. I said I couldn’t take them because I was pregnant. She looked sort of stunned and said in that case she couldn’t do much for me.
There was no suggestion of alternative treatment such as a chiropractic referral or massage treatment.
A previous review said she did not proffer info on things you do not specifically ask. Frankly I think her problem is that she is not very observant. To me, that is scary as I think a good doctor sees things the patient does not. What if the problem was more serious? That thought was enough to make me change doctors.

Called at 9:00 AM and was able to get in at 9:30
Did not have strep throat.
All is well

PROs: quick appointment, really nice doctor, very understanding of your needs, give referrals quick, great office staff.
CON: she doesn’t answer questions you don’t ask. Go in ready with your list of questions. You may have to remind her of things you talked about in your previous visits.
Overall, I’ve had good experiences with Dr. Kini. My visits with her can be described as EFFICIENT. But be sure to go in with whatever questions/​concerns you may have.

Dr. Kini saw me with little delay on my first visit, and it has been easy to get an appointment as needed ever since. While my first visit was not as long as I would hope for in an introduction with my new primary care doctor, she does stay in the room to answer questions as needed, and as mentioned in other Unilocal– gives referrals as needed.
Another note of appreciation, she gave me my pap-​was nice NOT to have to go to a new doctor for that…
Final thought– Her practice would really be stepped up, if there was a bridge between Eastern and Western medicine. She is all Western– my preference is holistic care. Overall though, I get a sense of genuine caring and compassion from her– she is a good person and a good doctor.

Dr. Kini is everything you want in a family practitioner. My wife started going to her a couple of years ago, and I was so impressed that I switched to her soon after. She is caring, compassionate, and personable while being a smart business person who understands how to manage and administer a successful practice as well. I rest very easy knowing that Dr. Kini will take good care of me should I ever need it. I am very happy to have found such a good doctor early enough in her career to be current on latest practices and so that I can stay with her for a long time, but experienced enough to confidently practice medicine.
No more crabby receptionists. No more «in two weeks the doctor has time in their schedule to check on your flu if it isn’t gone by then». No more «you have to schedule an appointment and come in before the doctor will authorize a refill on that totally innocuous acne medication prescription which you have been taking for ten years and the doctor could just call in to the pharmacy if they weren’t so money grubbing.» No more «we could refer you to a specialist in this case where you are obviously concerned and probably should see a specialist, but then we wouldn’t make as much money from your hmo, so we don’t want to.» And no more «I touched you so I can bill you but now I am moving to the next patient so I can bill them too, no time to talk about your health.»