Dr. Frank Tan Psychiatry

I took my son to see Dr Tan for an evaluation. Dr Tan was professional, incredibly knowledgeable on the matters we were concerned about and related very well to a 19 year old young man, making sure to include both of us in the conversation. I respect his expertise and guidance while we were under his care and felt we were in very good hands. I would definitely recommend him to my friends and colleagues.

I have seen Dr. Tan for over 25 years. I think a person needs to be at a place where they realize their health has to come first — to me, he is a brilliant MD, skilled in medication. When I first saw him, I couldn’t sleep — just one issue. He was the only doctor who went deep enough to ask if I felt anxiety, or panic — just to find out what the exact issue was. It wasn’t a question of just taking sleeping pills. I see him weekly. He is extremely talented and I have recommended him to several of my friends. In his waiting room I notice most of his patients waiting are dressed well and appear to have things together — it takes work to get back to functioning if there are mental conditions. The fact that he is happy himself with a loving family speaks volumes to me. If a person is actively suicidal this might not be the right place — a few months or years later Dr. Tan might be the perfect fit. He is for me.

I would strongly recommend against him. I go to college out of state so when I was home for the summer, he was my regular psychiatrist. It was my first time on meds and initially the experience was pretty good. We made an appointment to talk on the phone to check in on my meds while I was away at college. I didn’t know my class schedule when I made the appointment and it ended up being while I was in class so I missed it. I called back to try to make another appointment but could never get ahold of someone and my messages were ignored. Finally, I left a message saying I was actively suicidal and urgently needed a med adjustment. A week later, his secretary called me back and said that Dr. Tan had taken a 6 week vacation and hadn’t left anyone to cover his practice, which is extremely unprofessional and has horrified every mental health professional I’ve spoken to since then. She recommended that I find someone in my area to replace him. Of course, it takes forever to get an appointment with a new psychiatrist so I was stranded for a month, still actively suicidal.
When I got home for winter break, I made an appointment with him and he added a new medication and made some dosage changes. I subsequently got dramatically worse and he continued to be unavailable. When I went back to college, I was able to get an appointment with an extremely overworked psychiatrist. Within 5 minutes, he told me that my medication dosages were ridiculous and that most of the new symptoms I was experiencing were effects of being on too high a dose of one med and too low a dose of another. He adjusted my meds and within a week I had regained functioning.
My point is this: if even an extremely frazzled doctor could tell in our first appointment that Dr. Tan had made a serious mistake, I have a hard time seeing Dr. Tan as competent. He was dangerously negligent in a way that could have been fatal to me. If you have any other options, please explore them fully before seeing Dr. Tan.

I visited Dr Tan for an evaluation for my son. I felt that he was very thorough in his questioning and understood that I was there for a 2^nd opinion on my son and he did
not seem offended. I don’t have a strong opinion except to say that he was very professional and followed through with the phone calls he said he would make to our therapist. I waited at the most 5 minutes. He seems to care about what he is doing.
If you call his number you need to listen to the entire message as it tells you to call a different number for appointments.

For someone with no Unilocal reviews at all, Dr. Frank Tan certainly thinks highly of himself. Unforunately, his arrogance outweighs his competency. I highly recommend looking elsewhere.