Chester D Zahn, MD

I went to this doctor years ago when I first started having symptoms of pains and discomfort. Every visit I had with him all I was told to do was add more fiber to my diet he wanted me to have a tablespoon of fiber before each meal. It didn’t make sense. I would go back he would say add more fiber two tablespoons of fiber before each meal. It was always fiber this fiber that. He never wanted to listen to me when I said nothing was helping I mean I work for a GI and I new I needed an endoscopy after a few visits I went to another GI and finally got the answers and treatment I needed.

Worst Doctor I have ever met!
My dad has been having stomach problems. We went to this doctor locally.
He came in and was extremely rude, asking my dad to show him all his medicine hes taking and insulted us for not bringing it in.
We went on to explain to him what he is feeling. He told my dad to let him feel his stomach. He started poking at his stomach and after that, said he has to take this medication for 1 year.
I asked why would he need to take it for 1 year???
He said you have 2 choices, listen to me and take it or don’t listen to me. Your dad is going to probably have to take the meds for life!!!
I couldnt believe the arrogance and rudeness from a professional doctor.
I was extremely upset after.
This doctor should have his licensed removed.
The negative reviews on his Unilocal is accurate.
Don’t go to him if you want to stay alive!

I went to the emergency room because I was having abdominal pain and nausea and this doctor did an endoscopy on my stomach and when I went to go see him for a follow up he was the rudest man I’ve ever encountered in my life he was basically yelling at me in his office just because I was asking him what foods I would be allowed to eat .and I’m a young girl by myself and it was the most traumatizing Dr. experience I’ve ever had do not go to him I’m asking for a second opinion on my stomach because he basically told me my stomach is paralyzed which makes no sense I’m only 22 years old never had any health problems in my life. Horrible person horrible Doctor. I left his office in tears. His license should be revoked ! Doctors are supposed to comfort you when telling you bad news not Yell at you and blame your body !

I STRONGLY SUGGEST THAT YOU AVOID THIS DOCTOR! He is not only impatient and offended when I ask him questions about my diagnosis and treatment, he always pushes for colonoscopy. I am not over 50 years old, so I’d rather not take the risk associates with that procedure just to perform some unecessary «preventive» care. I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS DOCTOR!

Very poor attitude for being a health professionals. Although he did his duty as a doctor. He can treat his patients more politely with better manners.

ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE! AVOID if you wanna stay Alive! My wife went in for a routine test and he told her that her levels of a certain pathogen was off the scale and said she had cancer! We were in agony and misery for weeks while we tried to get retested elsewhere. We went to another GI doctor and had a different test done plus a biopsy. Turns out there wasn’t anything benign, and the problem was a high level of a certain pathogen that was easily corrected with a simple course of antibiotics.
This horrible monster tried to scare us and flat out lied to us into doing unnecessary tests and surgery, what an F-​hole!
We had a relative who went to see him and eventually got surgery on her stomach. Couple days later she was rushed to the hospital due to heavy internal bleeding. They had to correct Dr. Zahn’s incompetent botched surgery which would’ve resulted in her death! This guy’s gotta get sued someday and his license revoked.
I dunno why but my wife tried to visit this idiot again last year, and he refused her insurance and raised the cash rate. She just wanted to retest, not see the doctor, the answer was NO you had to see the Doctor and you had to pay for the test. She said she’ll bring in a friend and they both can visit the doctor and do the test and if there was a discount they said, «NO». Money grubbing bastards!
Sure his office looks sleek on the outside but it doesn’t cover up what this monster really is. He has completely thrown the Hippocratic Oath out the window. I don’t get why people who study so well and who are very good in school get to become Doctors? Book smarts doesn’t make you a decent human being or give you street smarts. He like many foreign doctors only care about MONEY and not patient care. That’s why they’re so filthy rich with many houses and/​or apartments, businesses like malls or insurance companies and/​or strip malls, stocks and geez I should write a book on this subject, it’ll be a great expose. Yes I know they work hard but do they deserve being filthy rich while the rest of us suffer? AVOID this doctor to start!

I have heart burn along with GER problem for years, cuz I am terrifying of seeing doctor. After, 2 visit with Dr. Zahn my symptoms had gone away, and I am able to function normally. I am feeling much better now and very greatful for his care.

I totally agree with others’s review about Dr. Chester Zahn and I wish there is negative star for him. My wife was referred by her PCP to Dr. Zahn for Colonoscopy test and Zahn told us that my wife had a 4 cm x 5 cm tumor needed to have surgery. However, after the surgery, we found out that the tumor was only 1.5cm x 1.8 cm less than 2 cm. It could be removed by a skillful GI Doctor without surgery. Now, my wife is suffering not only physically but also mentally and she has lost half of her colon. lost work pay due to the unnecessary surgery. It was shame Dr. Zahn as a GI doctor, could not even measure the size correctly!

CHESTER ZAHN COMPLETELY MISDIAGNOSED a friend of mine that I recommended to this office. I 100% regret ever referring him here because Chester Zahn showed that he completely did not care about his patient and evidence of that was my friend losing 60 pound within 10 weeks and the doctor telling him that he had «fundamental issues» and that he needed to «push through the pain». He allowed my friend to suffer for that whole time assuming that it was a spastic colon, prescribed large amounts of fiber and laxatives, but he did not suggest that a colonoscopy was needed; he said that he would do the colonscopy «to ease his thoughts…» In the initial appointment with Chester Zahn, my friend told him that a doctor previously diagnosed him with diverticulitis, but Zahn told him that he highly doubts my friend has diverticulitis. On my friend’s last visit with Chester Zahn, my friend was in extremely bad shape and I’m not a doctor, but it was visibly obvious that my friend was extremely ill, and when he got called back into the examination room, my friend went immediately to the exam table and lied down on it looking barely conscious, and then Chester Zahn walks in and asks my friend, in an uncaring way, «How are you feeling?» Obviously my friend was not doing good if he laying down instead of sitting up on an exam table like he did in the past visits. Chester Zahn is oblivious to true patient care if he did not catch that my friend was obviously ill. After months of being in extreme abdominal pain, my friend finally sought a second opinion from another GI doctor and that second GI Dr told my friend that he needed a colonoscopy «right away!» My friend got a coloscopy the following day but they could not complete it do to an obstruction in his colon. They then did a barium enema and found out that it was diverticulitis! Then we find out that all that fiber that Chester Zahn was prescribing my friend, was making his condition worse and not better! My friend saw Chester Zahn a total of 5 times and each time he pushed fiber as the cure for my friend’s spastic colon, and did not see that the fiber was in fact making him worse! My friend went in for his first appointment with Chester Zahn weighing 198 pounds and on his last visit with Chester Zahn, my friend weighed 168 pounds, yet Chester Zahn still did not find that alarming and all he said was to take more fiber. My friend saw two other doctors (a primary care physician and a GI doctor) and both told my friend that all that fiber was «exasperating» his diverticulitis. Finding out that Chester Zahn was causing harm to his patient (my friend) makes me believe that if my friend continued to have seen Chester Zahn, that my friend would have died. The «Hippocratic Oath» is an oath that all physician must take «to do no harm» to their patients, but it was completely obvious that Chester Zahn disregarded the Hippocratic Oath when seeing my friend as his patient and he did nothing but harm to my friend by prescribing him fiber without 100% knowing that my friend has spastic colon, and exasperating his true diagnosis of diverticulitis. This has taught me an important lesson in life: if you truly feel that a doctor just does not seem to «care,» seek a second opinion immediately! Chester Zahn expressed actions and words to my friend that displays that he truly did not care about my friend as his patient, because all he did was put my friend in more pain than when he first came in! Chester Zahn may have the official title of a doctor, but his attitude does not match because he truly showed that he did not care, and doctors who show that they do not care for their patients, are not TRUE doctors in my eyes. I DO NOT RECOMMEND CHESTER ZAHN TO ANYONE!!!

Dr. Chester Zahn was a doctor, he was just wanted to make money out of his patient, his charge was unreasonable, just looking at the report less than 10 minutes, no prescription was given, and then he charged for $ 150. I had insurance, but he wasn’t in my network. If you told him that his fees were charged unreasonably, he would tell you that he had already gave you discount, then he would ask you to pay double from the previous bill. At last, I had paid them the amount from the previous bill. I was very regret that I chose him as my doctor, because there were so many other doctors in our health care network.

Dr. Zahn is great and provides quick and attentive service. He really is helpful and is highly recommended.