Clifford Chew, MD

Very unorganized clinic. Do they not review patient’s chart prior to patient’s visit? Well, obviously not! One of the staff here (lady with glasses) just handed us a WRIST blood pressure monitor for someone with BOTH WRIST THAT ARE BROKEN and obviously CAST. And when she decided to switch to the arm cuff BP machine, she turns it on and literally said «DONT TALK, DONT MOVE» and walks out to help another patient. When she finally came back to see the BP reading, THAT SHIT WAS OFF ALREADY. She then asked THE PATIENT WHAT THE READING WAS. Are you effing kidding me??? 1 Star, because Dr. Chew was the only professional person that helped us. Thank goodness we don’t need to return for a follow up. Time to hire some PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ASSISTANTS.

Worst doctor’s experience I’ve ever had. I was asked to pay the entire cost of the visit — way beyond the cost that my insurance mandated. They refused to treat me without my social security number. The prescription that Chew wrote was invalid. At best, this was a waste of time and money. At worst, I was subject to insurance fraud.

I would give Dr Chew 4 stars –his staff 1. It’s why i no longer go to him. They were rude –after going to him for 2years –the receptionist wanted me to pay extra charges (my insurance benefits had not changed) for the visit.
I argued and then walked out not to go back. Too bad because I think Dr Chew is a very good doctor

The worst. Barely examined me. His staff were really rude. They get mainly chinese patients so even the staff were speaking in chinese. They made me feel really unwelcome. He misdiagnosed me. Gave me the wrong medication and had to go to two other doctors to compare. The other two had the same results and prescriptions. He also gave me like 2 minutes of his time. Didn’t even do a hearing test after i told him i couldn’t hear. Terrible

Go elsewhere if you value your own medical records as belonging to you and portable. Incompetent staff lies when you request your medical records, then changes their story/​excuses some more when caught in the lie so that you have no way of retrieving your records in a reasonable amount of time or without a huge amount of effort. This is a common theme among Chinese Hospital/​CCHP associated doctors, as if they’re mad at you for requiring care outside of their billing abilities.
Stay away.

Just wanted to say thanks to Dr Chew. I had a tooth problem. My regular dentist tried to fix it and couldn’t. She directed me to a Endodontist, who did a root canal. Things got terrible. I got a terrible infection. He continued to prescribe mild antibiotics while it got worse and worse. He didn’t know what to do, so he sent me to an oral surgeon who immediately freaked out at what he saw and sent me to the emergency room. The emergency room doc’s couldn’t do anything so they called Dr Chew because I had a huge infection. Dr Chew, not a trained dental doctor figured it out right away. Didn’t delay, asserted himself and within 30 minutes the pain, which had been intense for 8 days, was gone. He was a little quick to proceed after giving novacain but whatever, it worked. Will recommend him to anyone who needs an Ear, Nose and Throat guy.

Updating review: Please note that Dr. Chew is currently at two locations: Clay Street and a second location in the Sunset on Noriega.
It’s been several months and I’m still under Dr. Chew’s care. I’m very impressed by his office. The staff answer the phones promptly and a surprise, actually call you back when they say they will to follow up on something. Also, they are nice whether you speak English or Chinese. I went to one doctor’s office that was so rude if you spoke Chinese that I ended up pretending I didn’t understand anything but English just to get better treatment. I don’t have that issue with Dr. Chew’s office, though I speak English to spare the staff my ABC Chinese!
I’ve been unfortunate to need quite a few appointments the last few months, but the staff has always managed to squeeze me in last-​minute when I needed something ASAP.
Another thing that impresses me is that Dr. Chew has always returned my calls the same day. He’s very knowledgeable and is very open to questions and discussions about my care.
Hubby and the kids are glad I’m doing better these days, and I’m glad I can depend on Dr. Chew and his staff.