Wade R Cartwright, MD

I should’ve done some research before allowing my primary care physician to just simply refer me to an ENT. I’m a singer and over the last four years, my vocal range has become very limited. A consultation and a follow up appointment that lasted just a mere 20 minutes in all amounted to a very expensive copay, all the while without providing me with any diagnosis for my vocal issues. STAY AWAY!!!

I am very disappointed.
I should have read the reviews before I made an appointment with Dr.Cartwright.
This Doctor is absolutely out his mind.
Make sure you are ready to wait in small moldy smelling waiting room for an hour from your appointment time.

Wow.

As if the place needed another one-​star review. An hour of waiting for 5 minutes of a doctor’s time, all for $ 165. No real help, nothing I didn’t already know, and a band-​aid that didn’t fit at all, taped on awkwardly. Waste of money and time.

I just stood up and walked out, asked for my copay back at the front desk, and left.
Dr. Cartright told me my primary’s diagnosis was wrong because the trigeminal nerve doesn’t affect the ear.
I had already read up on everything the Mayo Clinic had written online, and knew this was not the case. At which point I said, «and we’re done here.»
sidenote: the office is straight out of 1932, about the time I think Dr. Cartwright likely earned his MD.

My fault for not reading all the reviews first. DO NOT GO HERE! There are a million better, more competent and cheaper options out there. There is nothing redeeming about this doctor or his office. In an effort to not say anything since I don’t have anything nice to say; just take my word for it and go elsewhere.
He charged me 200 $ for a 5 minute visit to discuss cutting a small cist out. I just had another doctor look at it down at Sutter and it was a 60 $ copay and a million times better. The doctor there was smart, explained everything to me, had the latest technologies and was very professional. Cartwright is none of these things. Yeesh.

I like Dr. Cartwright as a person, but as a doctor, STAY AWAY! I didn’t think a biopsy to see if my enlarged tonsils should be a concern, and should’ve put on the brakes when I found out I was going to be put under as a surgery. His hands were already shaky when he examined me, and I’m not surprised I ended up waking up to a chipped tooth. Another tooth next to it later chipped off also. He was nice enough to pay for the dentist, but doesn’t realize it’s time to retire. I ignored the red flags because he IS such a nice guy, but having my teeth mamed by his negligence makes me wonder if I should report him to the board, before he really does some serious damage to someone else.

Stay away! Although Dr. Cartwright is a nice guy, his pace and office staff are extremely slow. Despite having made an appointment and being on time with a few minutes to spare, we had to wait at least one hour. When our name was finally called, we were escorted to his patient room where we continued waiting for 30 minutes. Every little thing seemed to take forever. I cringed when the doctor had to step out of the room because that meant he will not return for a good 10 minutes. Add up all the waiting time and you get approximately 2 hours of waiting for a 10 minute session with the doctor.
On top of that, the office is small and dingy. I’m literally bumping into things and people. I will NOT recommend ever going to this place. Run away, run away fast!

My experience with Dr. Cartwright was unsettling and upsetting. I went in to have him look at a bump inside my ear that had been there for a few months and wasn’t going away. I had thought it was a pimple at first, but after months of it not going away and intermittently being sore, I decided to find an ear doctor to check it out.
After waiting for an hour in the waiting room, and then for another 20 or so minutes in the room waiting for doctor to come in, I was aghast at the doctor’s methods. He looked in my ear, told me it was a zit, and wanted to send me on my way. I had to basically beg him to look at it more closely, and possibly extract it. He left the room and came back with these pincher-​type things that he stuck in my ear and basically tore out the bump. He didn’t sanitize my ear first, he didn’t clean the contraption that I saw, and he didn’t clean my ear after. I even had to ask for a cotton ball because blood was dripping in the inside of my ear.
To top it off, I got a $ 205.93 bill in the mail for that piss-​poor procedure. I won’t be going back to this ear doctor. I felt dirty when I left.

My son had an appointment at 9. We live in San Ramon so we left early and found parking. I paid for an hour and a half in the meter thinking that it would be plenty of time. After waiting an hour in the reception area, we were brought to the exam room. We waited an additional 45 minutes before the doctor came in to examine him. The exam lasted all of about 7 minutes and then we were finished. He told us that we would get a call in a week to schedule a surgery date for my sons tonsils. It has now been 2 months and still no call. I have called 3 times and each time was told oh ya sometimes it takes a while but we will call you… still waiting! I also paid 58 dollars to the city of Oakland for a parking ticket! The doctor was fine but the whole process left me seriously disappointed and I do not encourage any of my friends to go there.

This review is not a reflection of the doctor’s abilities or bedside manner. Instead, it is a condemnation of the horrible staff working with the doctor.
Short summary of what happened– we had a 11:00 appointment, and came 5 minutes ahead of schedule, after lucking out with parking outside. Registered, filled out forms. My wife had swimmers ear, and wanted to check to see if it was infected.
Fast forward 1 hour… still waiting… then another hour. Doctor sees us, orders a hearing test in another room. We wait 30 more minutes for that. After a 5 minute test, we are ushered into a waiting room to wait another 30 minutes. Basicall, 3 hours to tell us that she was OK. The staff was unattentive, and was talking amongst themselves about what to eat for lunch.
AVOID.