Dr. Robert Peterson, MD

This team is awesome! They always get me in right away and they have found things wrong with me that other doctors and physicians assistants said was normal

I’ve been going to Murrieta Family Medicine for a few years now. Mainly for annual check ups and to get a couple of prescriptions refilled. Always saw the nurse practitioner (Michelle Broad) as I’ve been fortunate to not have any real medical issues other than migraines that haven’t affected me in almost 2 years. That was until I was called in after some blood work indicating that my Thyroid wasn’t working. Michelle prescribed medication and away I went. About a week into the medication I started to have sever migraines that would not disappear. I called and left a message to have Michelle call me back. 5 days later I received a phone call for the front desk w/​a message to see a specialist, that this isn’t normal. So nice of Michelle to have the front desk call me back…5 days later! Sure, she wasn’t suffering. Not only that, but I had questions after doing research online that obviously the front desk wasn’t capable of handling. I was so upset with the lack of professionalism, care and competency of Michelle (Migraines are listed as a side effect, although the message she wanted delivered was to go to see a specialist as this wasn’t normal) that I requested Dr. Peterson to call me back. Although I’ve never met with Dr. Peterson, if his work is anything like his follow up, I’ll pass on meeting the man. It’s been over a week and still haven’t heard anything back. Do yourself a favor and find a professional office that cares. This office does NOT!

This was the worst medical experience I have experienced. I was seen by the nurse practitioner who performed the only painful pap smear I have ever had. During the exam she told me she was pretty sure that I had a whole myriad of things wrong including HPV and/​or cervical cancer. She ordered an obscene amount of lab work that cost me over $ 800.00 out of pocket, all to find out that everything came back NEGATIVE. Oh, and they made me wait over 2 weeks for the results. The office had them for multiple days, but wouldn’t let me know what they said until the doctor had a chance to «look them over». I have been a patient there for over 10 years and had just switched my 18-​year-​old son over (who the same nurse prescribed a medication for that he was later told by another doctor not to take under any circumstances as it could cause renal failure and needed to be monitored if he was to take it — none of which was discussed when the prescription was written), needless to say we will never go back and I will be sure to tell every person I know about the experience I had.

Arbitrarily selected Dr. Peterson when I first moved to the area, thought I liked him fine until I scheduled an appointment because of what appeared to be chronic edema in my legs. Was referred to cardiologist, and after battery of (probably unnecessary) testing, was given clean bill of health. Went back to Peterson for edema again, saw his PA and, as I’m on a fixed income, was told, «Join WeightWatchers, it’s free.» Fast forward about a year and after consulting with another physician, I am about to have a 14-​inch-​wide (don’t know about mass yet) cyst removed from my left ovary that took over my entire abdomen, so much so that the edema fluid has started to leak out of the pores in my abdomen. The fluid leakage, which I thought was just sweat, was possibly causing the itching I wanted to talk to Dr. Peterson about along with the edema but was told they could «only address one problem at a time». All this was diagnosed thru TESTING (blood, ultrasound, MRI) Dr. Peterson’s office never bothered to even consider. None of the tests I’ve had since — EKG, x-​ray, MRI, ultrasound, etc. — has indicated any problems with my heart for which I was referred to the cardiologist by Dr. Peterson. AND, WeightWatchers is NOT free. Periodically you can JOIN for free, but you cannot use the program for free, and if you can’t use the program without paying for it, what’s the point of joining?
Incidentally, my husband decided to try Dr. Peterson as his PTP after incidents with colon cancer (surgery, now cancer-​free) in 2010, congestive heart failure and afib for which he had a defibrillator installed. Dr. Peterson told him he could go off his Warfarin and just use plain aspirin, a decision which could have killed him and ended up almost hospitalized again. Took almost a year to get his medication dosages adjusted properly.

Came from another doctor’s office where appointments were always 30+ days out and that was always overbooked and spent about 3 – 5 mins with you to get the overall status of your health. Was cared for «leaps and bounds» over the last office on my first visit to Dr. Peterson’s office (seen by Christine Stover). So glad I found them!!!

I’m so glad I found this Doc he was so great with me and made me feel as if I had been going to him for year’s.
He was genuinely concerned with my health and cared enough to ask me questions that I had never been asked by any other doctor on an annual visit. I didn’t even have to ask for all the tests I wanted him to run on me because he took it upon himself to tell me that he thought it would be a good idea to run them. I’m impressed!
I really hope our new insurance is accepted there because ill definitely go back to see him again.