John C Whitney, MD

If you have a child with a hard to diagnose problem, take your child to Dr. Whitney. He is the best.

We have seen him last weekend in the urgent care of Los Gatos PAMF. As most other reviewer are saying, he didn’t really try to make my son comfortable during the examination, yet we were completely satisfies at the end. He was direct and assuring. He listened us carefully and explained his diagnosis. When we left, we knew exactly what to do about the situation. He send his report to our pediatrician and he also followed up with a call two days later. I believe that’s exactly what you need from a doctor.

I was in the process of looking to see where Dr. Whitney was currently located, when much to my surprise I came across these negative reviews. My son saw Dr. Whitney several times over the years when our normal pediatrician was out of the office. We always found him to be very knowledgeable and thorough and not afraid to give his professional opinion (a rare quality in doctors these days). He has a quick wit and no nonsense attitude, which perhaps can be mistake for rudeness? In any case, my son who was fairly shy when he was younger really liked Dr. Whitney and so did we.

Nightmare dealing with Dr James Whitney. Stay away from him. Rude attitude while dealing with kids. My son was running high fever and he ordered a bunch of tests. He promised to call back after looking at the test results but never did. Kept calling his office and was told he will call back…

If you love your child, I think you should stay away from this doctor. Sorry for using such strong words, as only that sentence can sum up the experience I have had with this Doctor. My regular doctor in unavailable and I needed my son to be seen by someone as he has been getting feverish for the last week or so. This guy came angrily to the room where we were waiting, My son who otherwise a very happy kid, started crying just by looking at him like never before, By looking at his face you can say how scared he was, so when my son was crying uncontrollably, this Doctor didnot even look at my son but was asking me for symptoms in a blunt and rude way, he asked me to put my son on the table and hold him with my own hands, then without even touching him he looked in his nose and very rudely put a scale in his mouth to see inside, I was feeling terrible seeing my son crying after being scared so much. So during the entire appointment he didn’t utter a single word to my son. I have never written any negative review in my life for a Doctor before, But I sincerely think this Doctor needs to be reviewed and stayed away. Thanks again stay from people who have no empathy and compassion for your kid.

I work in healthcare and my wife is a physician.
Brought my kid in because she was not feeling well, and I’ve not been quite so taken aback by the lack of bedside manner in a long time. Canned greeting, no eye contact, clearly was in a rush to leave the room as fast as possible. I would forgive all that if his work was precise, but it wasn’t. Gave me instructions on how to treat my daughter’s fever, when she didn’t even have one. And it said so right on the visit summary he handed me at the end of the visit — her temp was 97.3 degrees!
The staff at this location really is just phoning it in. They don’t care so much about customer service.
At least PAMF made it easy to make an appointment.

We’ve taken our kid to many PAMF pediatricians (atleast 5 – 6), sometimes in urgent care, when our doc is away etc. Dr. Whitney is the best of them all. He’s even better than our kid’s current ped. Our kid was running high fever. He immediately ordered tests, got X ray done and started the right medicines. No nonsense at all. Totally amazing doc. We’re impressed!

I met this doctor when I took my toddler to Palo Alto Medical Foundation Mountain View Urgent Care. He got irritated very quickly when I requested something, and then he didn’t listen to my request at all. He wanted to do one test, and I asked if it was really necessary, then he got mad. He wasn’t child friendly either… BTW he is a pediatrician. I think this doctor is the same person listed as Whitney John Christopher MD in Los Gatos. Anyway, I won’t go back to this doctor. It is stressful enough when your child is sick, and I don’t need additional stress from a doctor.