Megan E. Chen, MD
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Santa Monica Family Physicians
901 Wilshire Boulevard, Floor 2, Santa Monica, CA 90401
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- Blue Shield of CA HMO
- Aetna HMO
- Coventry/First Health PPO
- SCAN Medicare Advantage
- Anthem Blue Cross HMO
- Blue Shield of CA PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Health Net PPO
- Multiplan PPO
- Anthem Blue Cross PPO
- Aetna PPO
- Cigna PPO
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Aetna: 569687
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Blue Shield: 100213912019
Cigna: 5580911021
Health Net: 3717202629
Humana Medicare: 435277
SCAN Medicare: 162067
United Healthcare: 2504617
About Megan E. Chen
Megan Chen, MD, MPH decided to pursue medicine while volunteering to work with the elderly in high school. The Spring Fling event at the Cupertino Senior Center was a defining moment that inspired her to consider primary care. While there, she met extraordinary people, filled with vivacity and a sense of serenity and fulfillment. Moments like these made her want to obtain her own optimal health, as well as help people achieve theirs by providing care for them throughout their lives. As a family practitioner, Dr. Chen enjoys building relationships with her patients. She helps her patients understand their illnesses and empowers them to improve their own lives. She strongly values preventive care and incorporates her masters in public health training into her philosophy of practice. Dr. Chen was born in California in the Silicon Valley and is Taiwanese-American. Outside of work, Dr. Chen is probably trying a new restaurant with her husband and two children or balancing and deep breathing at vinyasa yoga.
University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine
2014
University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine
2012
Boston University School of Medicine
2011
- American Board of Family Medicine, Family Medicine
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Always so quick to have a team member respond!
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Excellent
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Dr Chen is terrific
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I am well taken care of by this Dr Chen and this practice
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Dr. Chen is very nice and very well informed and always tries to help.
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I have always had a good experience.
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Dr chen is very empathetic, listens to my concerns and is very responsive
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Goes "above and beyond."
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Dr Chen is easy to discuss health concerns and care. She listens and talks about activities to improve my health. She is a supportive doctor.
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Excellent care always !!! Dr Megan ChenIs the best care provider that I ever experienced !!!
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Dr M chen is always listening, full of information/ help. Always feel heard and action taken to questions and answers. Shes a 10000 out of 10.
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Dr. Chen is smart, well informed, and interested in the patient's health and care. She is a special doctor.
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No bad experiences. Dr. Megan Chen is kind and respectful, listens to me attentively, tries to answer all of my questions. She clearly cares about her patients.
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I've always had excellent experiences with Dr Chen and staff. I will always stay with her
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Dr. Chen has always been caring and strikes me as a very bright and knowledgeable practitioner. Her staff is excellent as well.
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She's consistently knowledgeable caring and really present' - like, she listens and responds and she really pays attention to what I'm saying. It's such a relief to finally have a Dr who doesn't pass a lot of judgement and just tell me about myself - she listens before she speaks and she thinks before she speaks and I really appreciate that. She's obviously a very intelligent person as well, so I feel like I'm in good hands, so to speak.
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Dr Chen has been extremely careing doctor. Suspected I might be suffering from sleep apnea and recommending a sleep doctor for tests. I was diagnosed with it. After leaving her office, I feel I received exceptional care.
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Dr. Chen is a excellent doctor, she understand and care about what the patient need.
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Good communicator. Easy to talk with. Efficient.
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Dr Chen and her office are the best in providing care.
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She is wonderful!
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Dr. Chen is iwarm and intelligent, communicates well and in detail, asks insightful, pertinent questions and endeavors to always connect with me so I can feel comfortable discussing ANYTHING with her. Her recommendations are easy to follow, and she is ready to clarify anything you might not understand the first time around. I feel privileged to be under Dr Chen's care.
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Excellent provider
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Dr Chen is wonderful listener and explains things well
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It was great
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Dr Chen is a terrific doctor. She is very knowledgeable, thorough and explains things clearly. Am very satisfied being under her care.
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Dr Meghan Chen is the best. Always extremely detailed, caring, and all around a fantastic doctor. I always feel listened to and supported and well looked after when I see her for a visit. She is very thorough and proactive as well.
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Dr. Chen is always accessible, whether her or the office staff, they always reply quickly to questions through my chart. Much appreciated!
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Always a positive experience
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She is always patient and very kind! She is a great communicator.
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I'm so glad to have this opportunity to express myself how important it is Dr Chen and her team in the care of my health care
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Dr. Chen always takes time to listen. First. And then give advice. I know the office is busy but she never appears rushed.
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Dr. Chen is honest and well aware of new research findings on many topics.
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New patient treated respectful and quickly
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The online visit with my PCP Dr Chen purpose was to discuss continuing an OTC med I have taken for decades. It was a forum for us both to look at evidence based medicine to answer my quiry - to continut on the OTC or not. This is a vital for me question. Dr. Chen's clinical skill and breadth of knowledge was what I experience. I was moved along in my process and it was easy since it was on line. This service is vital to patients. Wondering if having someone manage doctor's time, supporting them to have a block of online visits and gently supporting them to get online nearer the appointed time is possible. I know as a physician, I get very deeply involved with each of my patients and having a reminder of where I need to be next on the schedule, without interrupting me, is appreciated. The nice thing about waiting for an online visit is, I am at home and I definitely accomplished a pile of work during the wait time. All is well. Dr Chen is absolutely the perfect physician for me. She is SUPERB in all matters of being my physician.
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Great group,
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I love Dr. Chen. She is incredibly knowledgeable and always willing to listen to my concerns and ideas. I travel a long way to see her and wouldn't think about changing to a different physician for my primary care.
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Dr Chen is kind, attentive & informed She is willing & determined to make sure I get the treatments I need & to explore new therapies & treatments that may help me. Very grateful to have her as my doctor
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Dr Chen and her staff are all very nice and helpful.
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Dr Chen - in a word: EXCELLENT!!!
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Dr Megan Chen is warm, friendly and always helpful.
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Dr. Chen is not only a great doctor but is so caring and communicative and you know she wants the best for you.
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Dr. Chen is a good doctor and a very pleasant person
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Dr Megan Chen is very attentive and thorough. Her interest in me and my health is reassuring and encouraging at all times. I feel that I always receive excellent care. This gives me a high level of trust in her.
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Dr.Chan is amazing doctor. She listened carefully to her Pt. She is understanding that Pt is going through. She is wonderful Dr. I am lucky having Dr. Chen. :)
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Dr Chen is amazing! So glad to have her as my primary care physician!
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Wonderful doctor
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Dr Chen is a wonderful doctor. She listens, cares, and gives valuable input and suggestions.
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I am very happy to have Dr. Chen as my doctor because she listens, hears, understands and cares which Is not as common as It should be....I feel fortunate Dr.
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Dr. Chen is a good doctor and has a very pleasant personality
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Dr. Chen is personable, professional and patient. She also has excellent listening skills and is great at making referrals.
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Dr. Megan Chen is a great Doctor.
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Dr Chen is very thorough, caring and Responsive to my health issues.
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Dr. Megan Chen is an excellent physician
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Dr. Chen is an excellent and trusted provider
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My care provider is just marvelous .. I come all the way to Santa Monica from Thousand Oaks to see her cause she is the best
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Can't say enough good things about Dr. Chen!! She is amazing!!
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All good. Friendly, knowledgeable and caring visit.
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Superb physician. Everything I wish for as the Lead on my health provider team.
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Dr. Chen is the gold standard of doctors in every possible way. She has been my doctor for over a decade and never fails to give exemplary care. Her staff is excellent as well. This visit, Yael took my blood and was fantastic!
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Dr Chen is a wonderful doctor
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I am extremely lucky to be Dr. Chen's patient. I am not treated like a number and she is thorough, compassionate, and kind.
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Dr. Chen is an outstanding physician. Very lucky to have her as our Doctor.
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Dr Chen is outstanding! She's attentive, knowledgeable and guides me to living a healthy life. So thankful I found her as my primary care physician. Unfortunately an available time for scheduling a physical was longer than optimal but worth the wait.
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Wonderful. Excellent. Could not be better.
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Everyone values different things in a doctor, but for me Dr. Chen is a near perfect balance of listening, being open minded to my specific needs, body, history, personality, desires as a patient while having deep knowledge and clear suggestions. It feels like talk as partners in my health which I really appreciate. She comes off as empathetic and interested, and is willing to provide choices and options to deal with health issue, not just commands or orders - which is very important to me. She is willing to say 'I don't know' or 'I need to look into that' which is HUGE. I've had way too many doctors in my life who seemed to feel they must come off as knowing everything about everything off the top of their heads -- and then proving to be wrong - sometimes dangerously so - later on. I feel no risk of that with Dr. Chen. Her humility and humanity makes her a perfect doctor for me.
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Dr. Chen is an excellent physician. Good listening, sharp diagnostics, empathetic.
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She's the best and thank you for allowing me to repeat that.
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Dr. Chen was so thorough and took her time with me. I appreciated that she didn't rush through the appointment. She is very kind and invested in her patients.
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Dr Megan Chen is a caring and professional Dr. I feel I can rely on her to be on top of my medical care. A very cheerful person as well
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Always helpful
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Megan Chen is an extraordinary Dr and an asset to our community and especially to us. She is that rare combination of caring, wise, and highly skilled. Just remarkable, and we feel very blessed to have her for our primary.
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Dr Chen is wonderful and we feel so blessed that she is my husband's primary doctor! She has taken great care of him for the last 6-1/2 years. She is the reason he is in such good health and we think the world of her. She is kind, compassionate, very caring, very informative, and the best doctor we have found. Thank you so very much, Dr. Chen!
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Megan is outstanding!
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I've only been seeing her for a year as my primary care doctor but I feel like I made the right choice.
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I'm extremely pleased with Dr Chen. She's the most knowledgeable, understanding Dr I have ever had. She takes the time to talk to me and understand my medical concerns. Incredible bedside manner, if we had more drs like her the world would be a better place.
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Referral to a specialist was not needed. My experience was excellent.
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Dr. Megan Chen has the most thorough and organized clinic notes and follow-up on my routine blood tests I have ever seen. I am a clinical pharmacist so I am familiar with patient charts and provider notes. I appreciate that she took the time to organize my blood tests into categories and addressed even the normal results and noted trends compared to last year. She also took the time to calculate ASCVD risk even though my cholesterol was at the upper limit of normal. This may all sound like things all PCP's should routinely do, but I have had 4 PCP's across different healthcare systems and none of them do this. Even my husband's PCP in the same exact medical office does not do this, and with abysmal follow-up. Dr. Chen is a gem and I am very thankful to be under her care!
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Dr Chen is the best. !!! She takes such good care of me. She's very kind, smart and thoughtful.
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Dr. Chen is a very smart, caring and compassionate doctor. I'm very fortunate to have her as my primary care physician
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Dr. Chen is always up to date with my records, very easy to talk to, genuinely cares about my health and comfort and even squeezes me in when her schedule is tight. I cannot begin to express how happy I am with her.
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Dr Chen is excellent. She did a thorough physical and answered my questions. I didn't feel rushed. She's the best primary care doctor I've had.
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Knowledgeable and takes her time.
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Dr Chen is terrific. Couldn't be happier with the quality of care
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Knowledgeable and spend time as required.
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Dr Chen is fantastic. She explains everything in a way I can understand . She is a good listener and takes time to answer allOf my questionS
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Dr. Megan Chen is a great doctor! She explains things clearly, is very thorough, offers helpful advice, and listens to my concerns. She also has good bedside manners.
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I was very pleased to find a GP who is caring, listens intently, understands and is open mined
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Dr. Chen is great, but I wish she was more relatable in my life situations to answer for cause of certain health problems.
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Dr. Chen is an amazing physician. She is knowledgeable, professional, kind, and a very good listener. She is detail oriented and great at sharing resources. I am grateful that she is my primary physician.
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I always receive excellent care from Dr. Megan Chen
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Dr Chen. Very professional & Helpful
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Dr. Chen is thorough in her examinations of me, follow through in reporting results of blood tests was remarkably within 24 hours. Every appointment that I've had with Dr. Chen, I've never felt that she was pressured by time. She presents as extremely knowledgeable and oh, so very kind!
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Always receive good care with Dr. Chen and her staff!
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My care provider is exceptional. Make visits easy with knowledge, professionalism and make my visit comfortable
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I love Dr. Chen. She is compassionate and thorough in her assessments. This has been a challenging year for me and I coped with a lot of stressors that may have impacted my health. I am in great hands with her as she coordinates more testing for me to make sure I am ok. She is my ideal doctor.
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Getting an appointment is particularly hard. Online is always booked out endlessly and calling usuallly gets an appointment - much later than expected. But the dr is excellent at respondng to emails and if I tell her that the issue is urgent - she will make room in her schedule to see me, or assign me to her assistant - who is wonderful. I am very pleased w my health care provider and would highly recommend her office to anyone in need.
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Dr. Chen is an excellent, smart, highly knowledgeable and empathetic physician.
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I really am very happy with Dr. Chen. She really truly listens and cares. She is very knowledgeable and had a lot of good advice for me and have me great goals to work on and also very good referrals. This is the first doctor that I have been to that I am comfortable with as choosing to be my primary care physician as she truly "cares" and has compassion for her patients. In addition to this she seems very knowledgeable about even something as complicated and rare as myalgic encephalomyelitis. And she did not make me feel like I was making up my symptoms. Other doctors have not listened to me when I have expressed how fatigued and how much pain I live with. Dr. Chen gave me a great rheumatologist referral and some gentle exercise goals at home that seem workable. I left my appointment feeling more positive as if I finally found someone who might be in my corner and help me find a way to get better or figure out what is wrong with me
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I love Dr Chen. It took me a long time to find her (had about 5 before her) but I am picky and she's the best so I'm happy I kept looking.
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Dr Megan she is so kind a clear when she is talking about my heal
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Thanks to Dr. Chen and staff for always providing the best care. I always feel better after.
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Dr. Chen is so compassionate. I'm so grateful she is my doctor.
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I had hurt my knee cycling along with a sore left shoulder. Dr. Chen checked me out. Had good advice and set me up with MRI's. Once the results were in she gave me a list of surgeons and location for PT. She listens very well and has a great manner in conversation. I'm very lucky that she is my physician.
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Love Dr. Chen. She's taken great care of me. Thank you for asking.
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Dr. Chen is a great doctor.
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I appreciate Dr. Chen's calm and casual demeanor. She's a great listener, and is very knowledgeable about matters that might pertain to my health. She's professional and easy to speak with, which makes our patient-physician relationship very comfortable.
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Dr. Chen is the best of the best - she listens with care, treats with respect, and leaves her ego at the door. Glad I found her.
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I think DrChen is absolutely wonderful. She listens to questions and offers advice and suggestions and solutions. She recommends other people who might help as well.
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I am very fortunate to have Dr. Chen as my primary care physician since 2018. She is super knowledgeable, up on all the current trends and changes in health care, thorough and kind. I can't say enough great things about Dr. Chen and her entire team.
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My appointment with Dr. Chen was excellent. She listened attentively to my concerns about my health issue and I believed she was genuinely concerned. I really appreciated that my appointment with her did not feel rushed and her focus was on helping me to get better. She is extremely personable and one of the best doctors that I have seen.
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She is an excellent doctor. She is very professional and kind.
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Dr. Chen is a wonderful doctor who listens and understands my health needs and concerns and always insures I get the care I need.
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Dr. Chen is very caring and knowledgeable, she takes her time to understand your concerns and find a way for you to struggle less.
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I appreciate Dr Chen's manner of service and her ability to follow my case with interest. She has also successfully supplemented her staff so as to be able to appropriately respond to a wide variety of patients with grace and good information and interest. Thank you, Dr Chen, for showing good interest in my case, as well as in the cases of a myriad of other folks' as well.
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Dr. Chen is very pleasant and a very good doctor
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I like Dr. Chen, she is caring, and knowledgeable. And offers informed solutions to my questions and concerns. She also is very pleasant, positive, and happy to see her patients.
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I feel very fortunate to have found Dr. Megan Chen she is incredible and kind and takes her time with me
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I feel that Dr Chen cares about me and communicates empathy and care each time I visit her.
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Dr. Megan Chen truly care about her patients and it shows. Other doctors are not like her which is regrettable because seeing a professional who makes you feel that you matter adds to the wellbeing of the patient.
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Dr. Chen has been my doctor for a few years now. We know each other too. She always responds to my concerns. I appreciate her.
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Dr. Chen is a smart and an amazing empathic doctor
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Dr. Chen always makes me feel that she's informed about my past history. She takes time during the visit to be interested, kind and professional. I am very happy to have her as my general doctor.
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Dr. Chen is an excellent doctor and I love being able to see a nurse practitioner for less complicated issues!
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Dr. Chen is thorough, patent and kind.
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Dr. Chen us a very good doctor and a nice person
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Dr Megan Chen is an extraordinary human being who cares.
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Extremely good listener.
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Pleasant and relatable. Happy with my visits.
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Doctor Chen is excellent.. That's all I can say ..
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Dr. Chen is the best hands-down! Great listener great feedback always on top of things just the best!
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Dr. Chen is phenomenal! She is a good listener. She was completely aware of all of my medical history and my current meds. She addressed on her own every question I was going to address before I even asked them. She always explains all the options involved when choosing a specific procedure. On top of everything, she is a lovely person and has a great sense of humor.
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Dr. Megan Chen is in a word: EXCEPTIONAL!!!
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Dr.Chen and staff is perfect in every way. I have never had a problem with health care from Dr. Chen. We love her.
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Dr. Chen and her office are very responsive and professional. She is engaged with her patients.
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Dr. Cheng is amazing. She is the best doctor I have ever seen.
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I have never had a better physician in the 75 years I have been alive. A truly wonderful, informed, competent, capable and caring doctor. One could not ask for more.
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Dr Chen is very thorough and I enjoy her calm, kind demeanor. While I don't have breast cancer anymore, I love that she and my breast cancer team (surgeon, cosmetic surgeon, & ontologist, & PT) are close & communicative with each other. It's an additional layer of care there are no words for.
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I have had only positive experiences with Dr. Chen. She and her assistant are caring and very responsive to my needs. Communications outside of scheduled appointments are usually via My Chart messaging; I'm thankful and impressed with the timeliness of acknowledgements and responses.
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Megan Chen is amazing.
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Dr. Chen is always prepared and aware of my history. She takes the time to review issues and is proactive in her responses.
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My provider sees me every year for annual check up and knows my conditions well. I am happy with the treatment I get from my provider.
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Dr. Chen is a terrific provider.
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As a healthcare provider myself I consider Dr. Chen exceptional in listening, understanding and diagnosing my first physical examination with her.
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Sways receive exceptional care
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Dr. Chen is friendly, patient, compassionate and professional. She is knowledgeable and an excellent communicator. Thank you for all you do!
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Dr Chen listens to me and takes into consideration all of my concerns. She's the best!
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Dr. Chen is amazing and attentive, informative and caring.
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Dr. Chen has been the exceptionally great as a primary doctor. I've been searching for a physician with skillset, knowledge and bedside manner for close to ten years. I'm so glad that search is finally over.
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I love Dr Chen. She spends the time and knows my medical history like no other doctor. She cares and is compassionate.
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Dr. Was very helpful and spent time with me asking me questions. She is amazing and care for her patients.
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Dr Chen is Awesome
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Dr. Chen is very knowledgeable about my health issues and the best PCP I have ever had!
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Excellent Doctor
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Dr. Chen is terrific. I feel very fortunate to have her taking care of my wife and me
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Very good expreience. Thank you!
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Very good.
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Conditions and Procedures
- Allergies
- Anxiety
- Asthma
- Back Pain
- Cholesterol Management
- Chronic Disease Management
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Chronic Pain
- Dementia
- Depression
- Family Planning
- General Well Visit
- Heart Disease
- Hypertension
- Mens Health
- Nutrition And Health
- Obesity
- Osteoarthritis
- Pain Management
- Preventive Medicine
- Sleep Disorders
- Tobacco Use Cessation
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Vaccinations
- Well Child Exam
- Well Woman Visit
Dr. Chen and her team are very personable, patient and professional! Amazing bedside manners and extremely supportive.
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