Dahl Patrick R MD

Worst bedside manner. Dr seems like he just wants your money. I went in to remove a cyst that had just started to get infected. The nurse also suggested I get a full body exam since I am paying for it in the new patient fee anyway but when the dr. saw me, he just looked at my cyst. Instead of removing the cyst I had, he says I need to go on antibiotics to reduce the infection. I then asked if he is going to do a full exam and he says «no thats something your primary care physician can do.» Then why did your nurse suggest I do it? I was so annoyed I just left.
After a few days I went to see a dr. at urgent care and he said the dermatologist should’ve been able to remove the cyst when the infection was small which it was. I went back to the derm and there was a different dr who said I would need to start over as a new patient and redo the consult and pay another fee. The nurse wouldn’t even let me talk to Dr. Dahl on the phone since they said he charges $ 85 just to talk to him for 2 mins because that is considered a consultation.
Dr. Dahl is rude and has the worst service you could get from a dr. He doesnt seem like he cares about his patients. He is an old man who seems like he hates his job. You are treated just as another number.

Dr Dahl has done a good job for me treating me for acne. He has an analytic mind and is committed to getting his patients what they need. For my case, much of it was trial and error but everyone’s body reacts different to medications. Don’t be thrown off by the fact that he is brief in appointments because that’s just his personality. I would recommend him to a friend. Make appointments in advance

Patrick Dahl was my dermatologist for years until he botched the suturing of a Mohs procedure on my lower lip. Prior to the surgery I asked him a number of times if I should bring a plastic surgeon in to close the wound and he told me that his partner” uses plastic surgery closing techniques”, thus a plastic surgeon would be unnecessary. That was literally the single worst piece of medical advice I’ve every received. After the Mohs procedure, I was left with a deeply disfiguring depression (divot) in my lower lip. Instead of his partner closing the wound using plastic surgery techniques, Dr. Dahl, himself sutured the wound together (horizontally). He kept telling me the wound would heal properly and that the divot would go away. The wound didn’t heal properly. Since Sr. Dahl wouldn’t do anything more, I had to see four other plastic surgeons in OC (and one in Newport Beach told me that I was «mutilated»). Not exactly the surgical result I was looking for. The problem was that the lip was stitched together incorrectly by Dahl (it should have be stitched together vertically instead of horizontally). Thus, I had to go through a second painful surgery with a real plastic surgeon where a half inch of my lip was removed (the part Dahl stitched up) and restitched correctly. Dr. Dahl was never to concerned with my disfigurement, and that really bummed me out as I’d known the doctor for over 10 years. It is clear that Dr. Dahl put own his financial gain above what was in the patient’s best interest – otherwise, why would he not have encouraged me to bring in my own plastic surgeon after the Mohs surgery so I would be HAPPY with the result instead of devastated? I surely hope that Dahl learned a lesson from my case. It’s better to not over promise a patient and perform a closing you’re not competent to do, instead, – especially when it involves the face and a patient’s appearance. By the way, because I was required to undergo a second procedure, I have a massive dead spot in the the middle of my lower lip due to nerve damage. That dead spot will NEVER go away. Thanks again for all you concern, Dr. Dahl! Ken K.

I stopped going to this Doctor a few years ago. I found it took weeks to be seen. Then when I finally did have an appt, I waited an inexcusable amount of time in the waiting room and the exam room before he actually saw me. He rushed through the appointment and I was on my way. When I wanted to speak about an issue, he just stared at me with a blank look then dismissed my questions! The front desk staff wasn’t very friendly either.

My son has gone to Dr. Dahl twice now for a skin issue and the doctor has spent less than 4 minutes Total with him. He does not spend the time to try and figure out what is going on he just prescribes different medicines and hopes one will work. Don’t waste your time going here!