Peter Hui, MD

On Wednesday, May 20, 2015, I was taken to the CPMC Emergency Room with severe chest pains. An EKG showed that I was having a heart attack. Very fortunately for me, Dr. Peter Hui was called in to help me. He did a catheterization to diagnose an arterial narrowing and, later that same day, inserted a stent into the artery to open it. His quick diagnosis and his assurance throughout the process made me as comfortable and relaxed as possible under the circumstances.
During my hospitalization, Dr. Hui’s team of physicians and nurses kept me informed about the treatments I was receiving so that I understood what was occurring.
Now, three weeks later, I am feeling much better and am cautiously approaching normal activity. I was very fortunate that Dr. Hui was available to fix the problem, help me through the emergency, and continue to help me on my path to full recovery. His professionalism and true concern for his patients are quite apparent and I recommend him without reservation.

Wow… I am sooo thrilled to see that Dr. Hui has a profile on Unilocal… Everyone medical circumstances are unique and different — and here’s mine: On November 3, 2009, God dispatched him to save my life at the CPMC Cath Lab by repairing a main artery that was 100% blocked. I was told that he was strategically and professionally medically relentless in surgery which generally lasts about 90 minutes that turned into a little over 3 hours. Dr. Hui remained my cardiologist until my health plan changed, and I have the utmost respect for his skill, talent and dedication to his patients.
******Dr. Hui… I am eternally grateful********.

Dr. Hui has been my cardiologist for several years. He has monitored my mitral valve problem with patience and commitment. I am amazed that, with the demands made on these highly skilled doctors, he has devoted so much time to helping me. I had a simple valve repair and since then I have had issues with the rest of the heart and he’s been there for me 100%. He fits me in as soon as he can, makes sure my questions are answered, and follows up with me by phone.
He is an excellent technician and is very much respected by the hospital staff, which is so reassuring.
He has the nearly impossible job of juggling office appointments, procedures (many of them last minute emergencies), hospital visits, etc.
His staff is outstanding and has been extremely supportive through my many visits.
I have actually found that his bedside manner has improved substantially since I started with him. He cares and does not back down from the difficult cases.
I cannot imagine working with a different cardiologist.

I have been going go Dr. Hui for many years now, and I’ve seen a decline in the quality of his care. I started with him because of how many excellent reviews Unilocal had on him, as you can see.
He was very concerned at first, and did a decent job at being thorough and issuing the appropriate diagnostics and tests for my condition.
Over the last few years, the office has felt like it’s become a factory. Dr. Hui is still quite popular, I believe he is a lead figure in the cardiology dept and gets a lot of recognition. However, care has taken a turn for the more perfunctory. He is quite busy and breezed through my charts, ordered yearly tests (in this case, echocardiogram), and bounced.
When I received the results, the report described recommendations based on the test assuming I had an ENTIRELY different heart condition than the one I actually have… as in, there is no issue about what disease I have, rather this was a profoundly negligent error on the doctor’s part. This isn’t like going to your primary doctor for a casual checkup, this was a YEARLY heart condition check up.
But what really made me decide I need a new cardiologist is that I asked if Dr. Hui could follow up with me about the results or I would even be willing to schedule an additional appointment to come in so he could explain the results to me. I was told that it is their office policy for a nurse to follow up with the test results and that Dr. Hui does not do that as standard policy.
Standard policy???
For anyone with a heart condition who knows the importance of information that is contained in an echocardiogram, that probably gives you pause. I have a great respect for Dr. Hui for having looked after me over the last few years and always doing what he earnestly thinks is right, but I think the office’s shift to this idea of getting people through the conveyor belts of their office is very negligent. If you have a condition and you’re only going to a cardiologist once a year or so, your heart deserves better care and attention.
Feel free to try Dr. Hui, but if your experience feels the same as mine, don’t settle this kind of perfunctory care. I have recommendations I could give to you, but it would be poor manners for me to list them out here, so you can just do more searching or message me if you wish.
Update ¹⁄₂₀₁₅: Ever since I posted this review, I now regularly get messages from Unilocalers who tell me they have had a similar experience and ask me for my recommendations. I’m sad to know that many other people have had to deal with poor treatment at this office as well, but I am happy to see people aren’t willing to put up with it. Your cardiology issues deserve better.

Dr. Hui is the rare genius you will come across in medicine today. He thinks for himself, studies your individual case in advance of your meeting and goes back and studies it again till he gets it!
I cannot say enough about Dr. Hui being an exceptional doctor now that I have been in the extremely broken and concerning world of medicine.
Dr. Hui, in 2 meetings, solved my complicated condition which 5 other cardiologists passed over as they didn’t take the time to really analyze my case.
3 of them were in his practice (!!) and 2 at the Mayo clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
I had been on a wild goose chase for 5 years until I met Dr. Hui.
Cut to the chase and put your health in the hands of a doctor who actually treats you as an individual /​personcase, not a statistic!

Before meeting Dr. Hui, I was diagnosis with a 100% blocked LAD through an angiogram and was a good candidate for heart medication. About a year after, I was referred to Dr. Hui by my cardiologist who was leaving to go across the east bay to continue her practice.
My first meeting with Dr. Hui was impressionable because he took the time to look through my medical history beforehand. Dr. Hui also showed me for the first time, the video of the angiogram that was performed a year ago.
While viewing the video, Dr. Hui explained and pointed out the blocked area and the collateral veins that was supplying the help to the LAD. He asked me questions and told me what he saw on the video and spelled out for me the situation and recommendation. Dr. Hui was not rushing me to make a hurried decision for a stent intervention but that he wanted me to think about and talk over with my wife what our next steps should be. But that decision would be up to me.
He was open to the fact that I could call him at any time for questions and that still holds true now. My decision to go forward for an angioplasty procedure weighed in also on the fact that we ran into one of my co-​workers who 5 years ago had the same procedure by Dr. Hui. He spoke highly of Dr. Hui as I am now.
In January, I had a angioplasty procedure which required 3 stents. The incline hills that was once before a breathing challenge while exercising has now ceased because of the recommendation of Dr. Hui.
I highly recommend Dr. Hui if you are looking for a good cardiologist who is personable, caring and thorough.

I was very happy after my two visits to Dr. Hui this year. He is extremely knowledgeable and explained the relevant cardiology to me in detail. The necessary stress test was scheduled quickly and without reluctance. After the test, he took time to go over the results with another CPMC doctor and made sure both doctors agreed on the interpretation in my presence. It turned out that I didn’t have anything terribly wrong with me, so your experience may vary.
One warning — Dr. Hui may come across as a bit rushed. It seems to be just a manner of speech/​action, however. He is very quick to grasp things and seems to want to relay them to the patient at the same speed. He took the necessary time to go over my case during the first appointment and managed to remember the relevant details four months later.

I thought Dr. Hui and his staff were outstanding in every way:
— Worked with me to get me in to see him quickly
— He took the time to both understand what was going on and then to explain his preliminary diagnosis and next steps
— I needed a number of additional tests done and his staff scheduled them immediately, even following up with me by phone (how often does one find a doctor with a pro-​active staff?)
As a physician myself, I was very impressed with Dr. Hui. Would recommend him wholeheartedly.

My father speaks limited english and went to see Dr. Hui mainly because he speaks chinese and he thought it would be easier to communicate. He was very disappointed with his experience with Dr. Hui over a 2 – 3 year period.
One time, Dr. Hui prescribed meds to reduce blood pressure apparently because of a slightly elevated blood pressure reading during one office visit. My father’s GP checked his records and said he did not need to take blood pressure meds as he had no history of high blood pressure. Dr. Hui wrote a prescription for 10 refills of the blood pressure medication and never bothered to follow up. On the advice of his GP, my father did not take the blood pressure reducing meds.
On another occasion, Dr. Hui and/​or his pacemaker staff changed multiple parameters in my father’s pacemaker without first letting him know or for any apparent reason. Within hours after they changed the pacemaker parameters my father started feeling ill and short of breath. Since my father had not had any symptoms for months prior to when his pacemaker parameters were altered, it seemed likely his symptoms were caused by those changes. After being unable to contact Dr. Hui by phone, I sent Dr. Hui and his associates a letter requesting they change my father’s pacemaker settings back which they first declined to do, claiming the changes they made could not cause his symptoms. Finally, they had a device tech from the pacemaker manufacturer change the parameters back and my father’s symptoms immediately resolved. Afterward, Dr. Hui and his associates sent my father a certified letter stating that they no longer wanted him as a patient due to «my interference». Of course, he would not have returned to Dr. Hui after that experience anyway. My father currently is seen at the UCSF cardiology faculty practice and electrophysiology clinic and has never had any problems there despite some occasional language difficulties.

Hey, Dr. Hui is the cardiologist’s cardiologist. He is not only an expert, but a great teacher. I can’t say emphatically enough how grateful I am for his care.

My experience with Dr. Hui has been nothing but great. He and his office staff have always been professional, kind and competent. By way of example, he performed an angiogram that went flawlessly, and his assistant followed up immediately the next day to schedule an appointment and other tests. While I have felt with other doctors that I carry the burden of following up and, at times, even hounding the doc, Dr. Hui and his staff have been the ones to initiate follow-​ups and stay in contact — always with efficiency and professionalism.

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My Heart is broken. I first met Dr. Peter Hui when I was referred to him after my echocardiogram result was less than 14%. He immediately admitted me to Coronary Care Unit (CCU) in July 1994 and I was diagnosed with Viral Cardiomyopathy and Congestive Heart Failure. It became progressively worse where my heart was pumping down to 5%. Dr. Hui told my ex and my son that he could not find a heart transplant in time and my situation was grave. Somehow, by the grace of the Almighty. I was discharged a few months later and was placed on the Heart Transplant Waiting List.
For the last 14 years, every six months I had some complications along the way such as 5 episodes of double pneumonia, 5 – 6 kidney shut downs (failure) and diabetes (Type 2), and gall bladder removal. Since the onset of Diabetes, I have been removed from the Heart Transplant Waiting List (the high rate of infection was the major factor and survival rate was not good.) And, after so many years of being disabled, my lawyer husband of 20 years left me.
We roll the date forward and I am now on Disability with insurance that is not as optimal as when I was married. On February 4, 2008 I called Dr. Hui’s office to ask for advice since the last few months my kidneys had failed 3 times rejecting the heart drugs and the only drug that helps keep my heart function was diuretics (water pills) to flush out my heart from filling up with fluids. I was referred to his Assistant and the advice was that I cannot see Dr. Hui until the Assistant screens me first. I told her I cannot breath or walk a block and suspect another Congestive Heart Failure. The Assistant examined me and said that: Your EKG is normal, your pulse is normal, you have no temperature and your ankles aren’t swollen. I do not see any problem except for that cough. I told her the last time I had Congestive Heart Failure the same findings were diagnosed, but I asked for a «Chest X-​Ray» since that was how they learned last time. The Assistant said i can wait two days for my chest x-​ray result or admit myself to the ER and I can have the result in 15 minutes. She wouldn’t refer me to Dr. Hui. to make a long story short, I was diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure and the ER doctor said Dr. Hui will be calling me for medical directive.
I waited and called for two weeks until February 29, Dr. Hui called and told me that my heart was pumping at 27% and that the next 3 – 6 months, if the heart medications work I may survive until the medication no longer works
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Finally, I informed Dr. Hui that I am moving on to another cardiologist and asked if he could give me some medications and relief for lack of oxygen until I meet with my new physician, Hurray, I am getting an oxygen tank delivered Monday on March 3!!!