Ana M Sanchez , MD

I was referred to her by my first OB since she went on medical leave right before my first appointment. This was my very first baby and I didn’t know what to expect. I showed up a half hour before my appointment and the doctor showed up nearly an hour after. I was her first patient of the day. She barely looked at my stomach and felt around before wanting to rush us out the door. This was my first pregnancy so I had questions! She was bouncing her leg and hand incessantly as she now had a full waiting room. She told us she would NOT order an ultrasound and we had to do this genetic testing (which is not required and not paid for by insurance). I didn’t care to but she didn’t give us a choice.
We were so bummed that we weren’t going to see our baby that we looked for another alternative. (Non medical Ultrasound through groupon). We had a heartbeat were supposed to be around 9 weeks. I had scheduled an appt for the next month with her but I had already found another doctor that I thought we fit much better for us since she didn’t seem to be the nicest person. Finally got around to the genetic testing and there was no heartbeat in the ultrasound. I should have been 13 weeks. Dr. Sanchez scheduled a D&C the very next day. I didn’t know SHE was going to do it. I would have rather had ANYONE ELSE. she was not compassionate or caring with our devastating loss. She didn’t even come to see me afterwards!!! And her staff stated there was NO follow up care. Wtf?
After a week I was still in a ton of pain. Went to see her. She was so cold and rough with me I was crying. I was in a lot of pain and asked what I could do to manage it. She told me «I don’t want to give you narcotics because you’ll get addicted.» I wanted to punch her in her teeth.
She said everything was normal and to deal with it.
Two weeks later I’m still bleeding and cramping. Her office staff finally admit something isn’t normal. DUH. I’ve been telling you this the whole time. After another U/​S they spotted stuff that was left. She was out of the office so they spoke with a B/​U Dr. Who is SO nice. This new DR wanted to do another D&C to do this quickly and get me out of this nightmare.
Well Dr. Sanchez called me back and said NO. She said she told the other Dr that I will not be doing it and wanted to prescribe me some pills to make me contract all weekend and try to rid of it that way. With NO guarantee. I was so disappointed. I filled the prescription but the pharmacist told me it would be extremely painful. I didn’t take them.
I dumped Sanchez and followed up with the nicest doctor that is willing to end my nightmare with the best and kindest care I could hope for.
Do NOT go to Sanchez for even a bandaid. She is rude and will not treat you like a human being. She didn’t even take my complaints seriously which turned out to be legit. It is her fault I have to get a follow up D&C. Especially when 2 radiologists and a new doctor all say it was a huge thing left behind and not sure how it was missed.
Well she’s a crap doctor. That’s why.

I guess I am realizing now that I should have read this doctor’s reviews before I went to her. I absolutely have never come across a doctor as rude in my life time, she Needs to go for anger management classes. She must be ashamed to be called a doctor. They were late for my appointment for one hour and when I asked how much longer they were going to be, she started yelling at me saying I had to wait as long as it took, that this is the way it is and I shouldn’t basically work the day I schedule an appointment with her.
I am still in state of shock how this doctor is allowed to practice like this and I am still disturbed for days after her office visit at how they treated me as a patient.

Possibly the worst doctor I have ever come in contact with. Gave absolute no communication during my wife’s pregnancy and had zero personality. Getting ready to having a child (for the first time) shouldn’t be a bad experience, however this team gave no support or help. You not only get to wait an extra hour to hour and a half for your scheduled appointment, but when you do get seen they rush you and out. Just extremely dissatisfied with them.

I absolutely love dr Sanchez and her staff. Wait time is usually long but she is worth it to me! Her bedside manner can be a little off sometimes but she is to the point. Very informative and quick and efficient! I absolutely love her!!!

I can see why this place has bad reviews. The obgyn came in and pulled me behind the office and asked if my dog was a service dog and I responded with yes. She then asked me to tell her my medical condition and I responded with I don’t feel comfortable telling you. She got upset because I wouldn’t tell her. She continued to asked me of my medical condition, still said I’m not authorized to tell you that. She said you are going to have to leave. I walked out and told her to look up the the ada regulations and update yourself. First off she’s not allowed to ask me what my medical condition is and pretty much TRY to FORCE me to say it. Mind you I was with my pregnant friend to be there for her through her pregnancy. This woman was so pushy and forceful to try to see what my medical condition was that she kicked me out when she didn’t get her way. It’s 90+ outside so obviously it’s hot. This is the rudest encounter that I have ever had. DON’T COME HERE UNLESS YOU LIKE SELFISH PEOPLE.

I’ve waited 8 long years to find an outlet for my absolutely awful experience with Dr Sanchez. Thank God for Unilocal!
Long story short I was very sick with my 4^th pregnancy with kidney stones that ended up in kidney failure. I BEGGED her for weeks to deliver my baby or manage my pain. She did anything but help me. She accused me of being a «drug addict» and «drug seeking». I went to her office daily for weeks in tears. I was turned away countless times because she was «too busy» to see me.
As a current St Joseph Health employee I’m embarrassed that she’s even allowed to practice within our organization. She’s the worst doctor I’ve ever had to deal with. I will make sure that my complaint is heard and that she will be held responsible for her terrible care. I could go on and on with the snarky, rude, and inappropriate comments she and her staff made to me and my family during the months leading up to my HORRIBLE c-​section delivery!

Terrible staff, they don’t follow up, there always going to call you back and they never do.

This women does not care about her patients. DO NOT COME HERE!!!
My appointment was at 4pm. The office closes at 5pm and she didnt see me until 5:30. She rushed our whole session and when she wrote out the perscription it was so undetailed and vague that CVS pharmacy told me i had to go back to Ana to ask her for further instructions.
When i came back it was probably 6pm and she told me she didnt have time to write me a new perscription because she had to close the store… What kind of doctor tells her patient she doesn’t have time for them?

I have been seeing Dr Sanchez since the beginning of my pregnancy and I adore her and her staff. This is my first pregnancy and they have all been so kind and patient with all of my questions.
I look forward to each visit to be able to hear my baby’s heartbeat, joke with the Dr and her staff, and have any of my questions answered.
Dr Sanchez is very knowledgeable and has put so many of my concerns to rest. I feel so fortunate to have her as my doctor.
I would and have recommended her to all my girlfriends and female family members.

If I could give Sanchez no stars i would. She is such a rude doctor, she was asking me questions about my education and I told her i’m moving out of the county soon and i’m waiting to move and she said «THAT’S A LAME ASS EXCUSE!!» excuse me??? what doctor talks to their patient like that? And its none of her business about my education. Not only is she rude she didn’t even do anything for my first prenatal appointment except try to hear my babies heart beat, other then that nothing else wasted my time. I say do not go to her! don’t waste your time! TRUST ME.

I have been a patient of Dr. Sanchez for 4 years. This year, she helped me deliver a healthy, vibrant baby boy at 38 weeks into my pregnancy. She was fantastic as my ob/​gyn to help me get as far along as possible (under a different doctor, my previous pregnancy went only to 29 weeks and required 10 weeks of NICU care for my daughter). Dr. Sanchez made it her goal from day 1 of my pregnancy to get me to full term, and we did it! She not only gave me useful information and orders, she made sure to send me in for ultrasounds if at any time something seemed off. Better safe than sorry, and she kept me and my son both very safe! I am eternally grateful to her and her team for keeping us healthy all 38 weeks of my high-​risk pregnancy (I’m 42!!). She gets all 5 of my stars.

DO NOT COME HERE!!! My mother was a patient at this office and almost lost her life because this so called dr. mis-​diagnosed her. Thank god i switched her obgyn and after additional tests it was discovered that she had uterine cancer. Had my mom stayed with this dr. (who refused to do additional tests) the cancer would have not been discovered in time. This dr. should not be licensed, it’s scary to know that there’s obgyn like her. Stay Away!

Years of experience behind her, this doctor is the best of the best. I recommend to everyone. She is honest, caring, and someone whom makes you feel immediately comfortable.

Dr. Ana has been my doctor for close to 6 years now. She delivered my son who is 5 now. She was always very accommodating even when my blood pressure skyrocketed during the summer. I got in same day. I will always remember how sweet and caring she was during the delivery. My family loved her! She was out of network for me, I went to someone else, just to return again. Now I’m having secondary infertility issues and she is so detailed asking me questions that the other doctor I saw didn’t ask. I was shocked to see such negative reviews. I do agree the lobby is busy all the time. To me this seems normal of any doctors office. I’m willing to wait for 30 mins for the most caring sweet doctor I’ve ever had. The staff is always friendly and helpful!

I wouldn’t even give this office one star, but that was the minimum i had to do in order to post my review. Such an emotionless and inconsiderate office of staff. I have had 4 periods in 2 months (which is completely abnormal for me) and my husband and I are very concerned for my health, as we are going to try to conceive in the next year. I called crying to see if I could come in to just ask the doctor a couple of questions, they told me that to do that I would need a referral. They were so completely rude to me that I ended up hanging up and canceling my pap appt since I just didn’t feel comfortable with going there still. I ended up making a phone call to my primary care doctor and I can’t get in to see her until July 2^nd, 9 days away from today, and that just feels like I’m waiting too long to see someone about my problem. My husband ended up calling them back and they were rude to him too, talking over him, not hearing what he had to say, no respectful response from them whatsoever. I called back to see if the doctor could just give me a call so I could ask a couple of simple questions, but the receptionist (safely for her, didn’t give a name) gave me even more of an attitude, while I was still crying, I said that maybe I need to find a new obgyn to see and the bitch said, «yea, maybe your do.» How professional of her. I ended up telling her to eff off and hung up again. I was sick of their office at this point. Dr. Sanchez is a nice person, but I don’t think she’s as educated as other obgyn’s I’ve been to in the past. Her staff is horrendous and I would NEVER, EVER refer anyone to go here. This is only the worst thing I’ve experienced here, there’s been many other degrees of rudeness and insensitivity that I have been through with this stupid office. Don’t go here, save yourself the time and money, go see a good, caring doctor.

So 30 minutes after I bring my sister to her appointment the doctor decides to come back from lunch. And 20 minutes after that they finally call her into the back. Stupidly slow service. Have no idea about the quality as I am a male. But this is still bullshit. People have jobs. Get your shit together.

My sister-​in law has been coming to Dr. Sanchez for over 8 years. Dr. Sanchez has delivered all her 5 kids and she cant’ be any happier w/​her service. When I found out I was pregnant in 2010 I decided to w/​a Dr that works for the St. Joseph network and Dr. Sanchez was the person to go. I’ve had nothing but great experiences w/​her. Being that I was a new mom to be she always made time at the end of our consultation to make sure I didnt’ have any questions or concerns. She’s a very nice lady and I was extremly happy that she was there for my delevery. Since I didn’t take any sort of labor classes she gave me a mini lesson when I should push when I started pushing. I pushed twice and my baby was out in a flash. =) I’m going back on Monday for a check up. I hope I don’t have to rate her any lower.

Turn around and pick someone else! There is a longer waiting period than at most clinics. I waited 2 hours to be seen by her. If you have a job and can’t spend your entire day in the waiting room find someone else.

Seriously this Doctor should have her license taken away! This woman is a hot mess, I can’t believe she brings babies into this world because she’s the most insensitive doctor I’ve ever met. I dealt with her in 2011 for a quick prescription no more than 10 minutes, then earlier this year I started feeling horrible pain in my ovaries. My PCP gave me a referral to her and it was all downhill. She makes you wait close to an hour while she’s at lunch doing whatever she pleases. The waiting room is so freaking little it makes you feel uncomfortable! The way she walks in you would never know she was a MD! She walks in very casual with scrubs and tennis shoes on thinking she’s the ish! No apology for keeping me waiting no nothing. I proceed to tell her about the pain I’ve been having for a few months and all she does is press on my stomach and calls it a day. No exam, no bloodwork no NOTHING! She goes «Oh I guess you need surgery then» She doesn’t ask me if I’m having any kind of symptoms ! She wasn’t even in the room with me for 10 minutes! She proceeds to open the door go into the hallway and lets the whole waiting room + staff know «I WILL NOT CHANGE YOUR BIRTH CONTROL»! WTH?! What happened to HIPPA?!! It was uncalled for! She books 10 patients all at the same time making you waiting forever and could give a s*&! about you or your fetus! She is the perfect example of a mass-​production factory! She justs pops out children to get paid. The only person that cares in that office is Jeanette, she helped me with all my pre-​op info. The day of my surgery 09÷11÷12 was schedules for around 10:30am but I was in pre-​op for 2 hours, she strolled in LATE then proceeds to say «I think I’m in the wrong room, I’m looking for a MEXICAN! :O She walks out then walks back in and says «oh», I said yes I’m half MEXICAN duh can’t you tell with my LAST NAME?! She asks my mom & I «Oh, where you from?» I’m from Cuba. –_​_​– I cannot believe she’s allowed to practice gynocology and operate on people. It was seriously the Grace of God that got me through surgery + the awesome staff @SJH Pavillion to put me at ease. She needs to be shutdown for good! –_​_​–

Dr, Ana Sanchez MD isn’t even worthy of half a star — i tried to give half a star but I guess I cant so a star will have to do. This doctor is more interested in quantity than quality care. What I mean is this– shes more interested in money than in your health. She would like to see more patients and provide the least amount of medical advise than to spend a little more time and focus on your needs.
I went to her in Sept of 2011 for a regular pap smear. She asked me if I had cramps and heavy bleeding, and I told her yes I did. Most doctors would ask more questions and/​or write me a prescription for birth control. This doctor just dismissed it and with a wave of her hand said «just take tylenol or advil for the cramps». Thanks genius — as if I didnt already do that.
My pap smear was fine until she felt a lump in my cervix. She said that I may have a tumor and asked her assistant Janette to schedule me for an ultrasound the week after — and then she rushed out before I even had a chance to to ask her what the hell that meant. When a doctor tells you that you have a tumor, automatically the first thing you think of is cancer is it not?
When I got home all I could do is stress and think about what the doctor said so I googled like crazy. Turned out that these tumors are often benign and are called «fibroids», and usually are the cause of the heavy bleeding and cramping. They are very common in women during their «child bearing years».
A week later I had my ultrasound which literally took ten minutes (it should have taken longer). Since the ultrasound tech cant give me any information I had to wait till Ana Sanchez could analyze my results. Now mind you no one has still explained to me what a fibroid was — all this information that I knew was because of my googling and research. I waited two days and then called the office for my results. The assistant Janette came on the phone and told me that the doctor still didnt have a chance to review the results. I called each day after that. Finally on the fourth day Janette got on the phone again and told me that I have a 3 cm fibroid. Ok what the hell does that mean to me? I got upset and told Janette that not once had Ana Sanchez even picked up the phone to call me to explain to me what I had. Janette apologized.
Two days later I had my period. Five days later I had heavy clotting the size of golf balls and was bleeding like a slaughtered animal. I ended up at the St. Joseph’s medical hospital. They checked me and said I was healthy and I would have to follow up with my physician. They gave me a hormone called medroprogesterone to stop the bleeding. I missed work for the next three days. The next day after I was discharged from the ER, I went back to Ana Sanchez in tears wondering what was going on with me. Never in my 31 years of life has anything like this ever happened. This is what she told me” You wasted your money going to to the ER. Most women have fibroids and even some of my patients have fibroids up to 5 cm and they just use double maxi pads. You should just double up on your maxi pads. I don’t even know why you are crying. You are overreacting.” I asked her if the fibroids could be removed. She said yes but she wouldnt recommend it because if I had kids in future I would have to have a C section. Then she wrote me a prescription for a low dose of birth control– lo loestrin fe. She said that would take care of the bleeding.
I started using this birth control. The first month I didnt have a period. The second month I was spotting for 30 days and had two heavy periods within that spotting. The third month I was spotting constantly everyday.
I called Ana Sanchez and as usual her assistant Janette came to the phone. I told Janette that I had been bleeding like crazy for two months straight now. I even told her that some of my friends had been presribed othro tricyclin lo and they had good results with it. The next thing I know Janette calls me back saying that the doctor is writing me a prescription of the otho triclyin lo. Are you serious?! Seems like she just wrote me the prescription to get me off her back, I mean who’s the doctor me or her? Seems like I could have asked her for any birth control and she would have written it with no regards as to whether it was actually good for my particular condition or not.
I called Janette back and told her I wanted my ultrasound results. I was going to go the Woman’s Healthcare Center at UCI Medical Center. I was done with Dr. Ana Sanchez. She was absolutely useless and a shitty doctor.
To summarize — I just had a larporoscopic surgery done 10 days ago at the UCI Medical Center because their ultrasounds (which took an hour) detected 5 fibroids in my uterus. The biggest one was a 7 cm fibroid that was putting pressure on my uterus causing the insane clots and bleeding. I had to have surgery, there was no way around it. Im so thankful to my doctor at the UCI Womans Health Care Center, Dr. Sibiri.