Cunningham Bari B MD, Encinitas CA

Dr. Cunningham is 5 Stars all the way. She cares so much about my 6yo and I'm grateful we found her. The missing star is for her front desk clerk with medium length hair. She made no eye contact when attempting to check me in, spews out information at which I had no idea she was talking to me because she wasn't even looking at me, decides to ingore me, check in two more people who walk in afterwards, then refers to me as "that one" when she decided to pass me off to another clerk.
Whatever protocol she is following when checking people in is absolute garbage. I understand validation is required, and this should be done, but there is never a need to treat me like a hobo who kidnapped a kid off the street and took him to his confirmed dermatologist appointment. Not sure how people like this get customer-facing jobs.

We took our 10 year old son to see Dr. Cunningham for his skin infection issue this year. Dr. Cunningham told us that he needed to take ACYCLOVIR 5ml per serve, 3 times per day for 7 days to treat the skin infection. Unfortunately, the office sent the wrong dosage (15ml per serve) to the pharmacy on the day. My son took three times more dosage in the weekend and experienced some side effects badly. Next Monday, we called the doctor's office and found out the error. The doctor insisted that she didn't do anything wrong and the 3 times more dosage is OK for my son. We complained the dosage issue and she threatened to kick us out from her system. That is a really bad experience. We will never visit her anymore.

Coming to see Dr. Cunningham for 3rd time from Chula Vista for my toddler. We missed our exit and were 15min late. The doctor refused to see us and said that we will be charged for the visit even as we were refused to be seen by her. She was nice the first two visits but seemed in a lot of rush every time. By the way we always waited to be seen for a while, at least 30min but being late is unacceptable. I'm very disappointed and will not come back to this clinic.

My son first saw Dr. Cunningham when he was just a few months old and she quickly ruled out a unique birth mark as benign where other doctors were puzzled. My son is 17 now and going through accutane treatments and Dr. Cunningham is still the best doctor around! She is the most personable and competent dermatologist in all of Southern California, probably the entire U. S. She also has top notch medical assistants. Worth waiting for an appointment! P. S. Get a few units of botox after your teen's appt- she is best botox injector around!

Doctor Cunningham is the absolute best at what she does and I trust her implicitly. She is wonderful with kids, cautious without being alarmist, just great. As an added bonus, her office staff is so kind and accommodating and in more than one instance have helped me greatly when I needed it. I think in general having a great staff is under recognized and doctor Cunningham's staff really make her office even better.