Jean C Lauricella, MD

Like the reviews by many others, I also found this doctor to be very rude, condescending and she is all about money. We have endured years of unnecessary vaccinations, medicines (which she would push you to buy from her sometimes), and endless follow-​ups and rechecks for the even the most innocuous issues. She would relentlessly push to have the parents get their flu shots with her and she would try to get a connection into my company to sell flu shot services, which is another company that she owns.
She has zero patience and would not answer even the simpliest of questions if we were there for a flu shot. Her reply would be an abrupt: «No! We are only doing flu shots today. No medical questions. You need to make another appointment.»
When we switched, she also charged us $ 50 for «processing» and she insisted on speaking to me before she would release our child’s records.
We put up with her for so long primarily because her former partner Dr. Paula was a great doctor.

I really don’t enjoy writing negative reviews but I feel like it’s necessary to warn others of this doctor. She is really really terrible. From bad bedside manners, actually down right rude to being super out of touch with current infant rearing styles (she suggested I read Dr. Spock’s book which was first published in 1940) she is not a good doctor.
She yelled at my husband who is one of the nicest guys bc we were having difficult with nursing. She blamed my husband for not being supportive which is extremely manipulative to do to a new mother who has been thru childbirth. anyone who has been thru it can tell you the first week is super hormonal and vulnerable.
She practically forced me to bottle feed which was not a family plan. I don’t have anything against bottle feeding but it’s not what we wanted to do as a family but she offered no alternatives like seeing a lactation consultant. Did that ever occur to her? No.
Then when my newborn started to develop a major skin rash she refused to see him and suggested I bathe him in cetaphil cream and lotion then call her in 10 days if it didn’t get better. This is when I finally reached my final straw. I paid for our records and got the heck out of dodge. A few hours later she calls me on my phone and asks why I was leaving! She said she thought we had a good thing going. Psycho.
After we brought our baby to a new pediatrician he immediately determined that our son was reacting to the formula that Lauricella was forcing down his throat. He switched to a hypoallergenic formula and his skin problems went away within a week. He also recommend a few lactation consultants and we eventually ended up breast feeding for a long time. He also advised against cetaphil especially with infants with eczema since they could react to the macadamia oil. SO glad we switched doctors and didn’t use Cetaphil because as it turns out my son has a severe tree nut allergy.
Whatever you do please do not go to this doctor.

Dr Jean is great! We started seeing her when my daughter turned 1 and we had just moved to Pasadena. She will give it to you straight, while still respecting your decision. My now 4 yr old has asthma, environmental allergies, peanut allergy, whole bunch of issues… she always comes up with a plan and if it doesn’t work, we try something else. Whatever happens I know I can trust her. I recently gave birth to my son and while we now live in West Covina we have no intentions of switching to anyone else!

This was a horrible experience for me. After 2 years, I had had enough. Dr. Jean is condescending and rude, will not listen to your opinion as another, loves to push medications and unnecessary vaccinations. She also loves to create ridiculous excuses for appointments (a 21-​month checkup of a healthy child??) just to rack up bills. She is rude to her staff as I have seen many times. The worst part is when I asked to switch, she charged me $ 50 per child to transfer their charts. When I asked her why, she said it was to pay for the cost of copying the charts (last I heard, it does not cost more than 5 cents per page to copy). She is just out to make a buck from what I can see.

Dr Jean brought sanity to our lives at a time when we were frazzled from being new parents. Everyone around us from nurses to lactation consultants made us feel like we were subpar parents. Dr Jean sweetly reminded us that all of this was a blip on the parenthood road map. I never felt that she was condescending at all if anything she was motherly and very compassionate. Thank you Dr. Jean

I have to agree with the above review, except that I found Katie to be helpful. I felt sorry for her actually, b/​c Dr. Lauricella yelled at her for asking questions on my behalf (by phone)…which apparently the Doc thought were a waste of her time… I bet she didn’t think I could hear her over the phone, but the elevated voice in which she spoke her condescending words helped me to hear them loud and clear.
In person, Dr. Lauricella is even worse. Not only was she rude to me, I’ve seen her be rude to other patients. Three strikes and she’s out: she’s rude to me, her other patients and her own receptionist. Let me just say, at that point, it’s more then a coincidence. This doctor seriously needs to learn some common courtesy.

Dr. Lauricella is by far the worst physician I have ever encountered. She is rude and unprofessional, and has terrible bedside manner and a huge ego. Made us come in to her office several times in between regular well visits for totally useless appointments just to milk my insurance (her practice is not exactly booming). She is a big fan of over-​vaccinating and over-​medicating, and doesn’t tolerate patients disagreeing with her/​not following her instructions to a tee.
She has always seemed rather uninterested in what we, as parents, had to offer, and has made fun of my questions, as well as made several condescending remarks about my choices, which, I believe, is simply unacceptable. Her nurse has the same attitude problem, and her front office receptionist (Katie) had a tendency to call us at home at the most inappropriate time waking up the child.
We left this practice after several visits and never looked back. If you are looking for a great pediatrician in the area, check out Dr. Mark Powell at Rose City Pediatrics.

This was the worst doctor experience I have ever had. She was very out of date and her bedside manner left a lot to be desired.
I have never written a Unilocal review but wanted to make sure no one else had this experience. Good luck finding a pediatrician.