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| - It's hard for one to ignore the preceding posts regarding Dr. Hunt and her staff, so I will attempt to remain sensitive to the positive and the negative accounts while writing this review. I was a former medical student of Dr. Hunt's. I deny any form of conflict in interest in the past or present. It has been 3 years since I worked with this office and during that time I received no compensation.
Today, a vast majority will agree it has become very difficult for many doctors and patients to communicate effectively with each other. I've concluded at the end of my medical school training that our American medical system has become so technologically proficient but emotionally deficient. It is efficient at treating the acute, not the chronic problems. To my surprise, I've now learned that patients aren't alone in feeling that doctors are failing them. Behind the scenes, many doctors feel the same way. These will be my patient de-identified, humanizing accounts with Dr. Hunt shared publicly to help current and potential patients gain a spy glass approach to their physician.
Prior to following Dr. Hunt, I had already shadowed and worked with a total of 11 Ob-gyns in my career hunt in becoming a physician. I had much to compare her to, to say the least. I followed her extensively from 6:30 am to 10am in the operating room and from 10 am to 6pm in clinic regularly with extended hours easily to the AM on many of her on-call days. With these 80 hour weeks being the norm, I was amazed that she brought the same drive and intensity every morning.
The following are true accounts and are kept in bullet point format in lieu of being overly emphatic and exhaustive for a yelp review:
-Every patient we saw together was a tear worthy events but what was most striking was to see Dr. Hunt cry every time as she shared these experiences with her patients.
-I witnessed a successful pregnancy of a patient having been diagnosed 3 years prior with PCOS and infertility. Now just as a backstory, in PCOS patients, becoming pregnant is very difficult. The first-trimester miscarriage rate is 3-fold higher than that of normal women. Due to Dr. Hunt's reinforcing philosophy in maintaining and upholding healthful lifestyle, diet modification changes, she's made pregnancy an improbability to a possibility in a large percentage of her PCOS patients.
-Defend the patient's financial interests by always suggesting the most cost effective approach to necessary lab testing.
-Arguable amongst ob-gyns, MTHFR gene testing for a list of rare diseases is usually out of scope.
-Memorizing ACOG guidelines and extremely up to date on new research.
-The eight-minute appointments we're all familiar with. Paperwork exponentially compounds the time. Studies estimate that today's good doctors and "hospitalists"--medical practitioners who do most of their work in hospitals--spend just 12 to 17 percent of their day with patients. The rest of the time is devoted to processing forms, reviewing lab results, maintaining electronic medical records, dealing with other staff. On the regular, I have seen Dr. Hunt give extra time to patients willing to return at the end of the day, more counsel.
- Often went beyond her duties as a physician by defending sexual assault victims rights, safety and well being.
-The never ending meetings and conferences in staying up to date on hormone replacement therapy as a mainstay of her practice.
To be honest and impartial as one can be, my initial impression of Dr. Hunt was quite mixed. I experienced her on my first day to be very sharp and curt as ANY surgeon would be. But you as the reader of this review obviously knows how this will end. With the more time I spent with her, the more my view undoubtedly evolved.
Whether the initial impression is good or bad, I knew, knowing a person is what forms an opinion. Day to day interaction, choices you make and personality are more important. A good or bad first impression can be quickly eviscerated by these. First impressions are important, but they are not everything.
In summation, the final question of the day for the readers is, "Is Dr. Hunt for me?" To answer this whole heartedly please bear with me as I draw this review to conclusion. In the course of our lives, most of us will urgently need care, sometimes when we least expect it. We as patients must currently seek it in a system that excels at stripping our medical shepherds of their humanity, leaving them shells of the doctors people want them to be. What is interesting of this predicament is that every single patient wants a different outcome.
Dr. Hunt eventually juxtaposed on top of my aforementioned persona, a kind nurturing sense a mother of 2 would be, a "right-advocating" driven sister for all her patients, an astute graduate from UCLA, stern professor with a photographic memory and lastly but most importantly one of the MOST effective physicians I have ever worked with.
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