Features
17th Annual Top Doctors
The Region’s 412 Top Doctors
By Seattle Magazine Staff and Castle Connolly Medical LTD., Mandolin Brassaw and Erika Almanza Brown March 22, 2017
This article originally appeared in the March 2017 issue of Seattle Magazine.
If you need a doctor and don’t have one—whether it’s for a routine checkup or a life-threatening disease—where would you start to look? Sure, you might solicit opinions from friends and family, but would you really leave this decision up to crowdsourcing? That’s why, for our 17th annual report on the Puget Sound area’s most trusted physicians, we went straight to the experts—with the help of health care research firm Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.—and asked Seattle-area doctors to recommend their peers.
But this year, we also stepped behind the medical curtain and the doctors, profiled in more depth on the following pages, to tell us what they think patients should look for in a physician. You’ll notice a common theme in their responses. It turns out that communication is really important. So, when you find that new doctor—or have an appointment with the one you already see—be sure to talk to them, and listen (and if they’re worth their Top Docs weight, they will, too). Communication may not cure all that ails you, but it’s a good place to start.
Top Doctors Index
Addiction Psychiatry
Adolescent Medicine
Allergy & Immunology
Cancer Specialties
Cardiac Electrophysiology
Cardiovascular Disease
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Clinical Genetics
Colon & Rectal Surgery
Dermatology
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
Diagnostic Radiology
Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
Family Medicine
Gastroenterology
Geriatric Medicine
Geriatric Psychiatry
Gynecologic Oncology
Hand Surgery
Hematology
Hospice & Palliative Medicine
Infectious Disease
Internal Medicine
Interventional Cardiology
Maternal & Fetal Medicine
Medical Oncology
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Nephrology
Neurological Surgery
Neurology
Neuroradiology
Nuclear Medicine
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Ophthalmology
Orthopedic Surgery
Otolaryngology
Pain Medicine
Pathology
Pediatric Allergy & Immunology
Pediatric Cardiology
Pediatric Endocrinology
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Pediatric Infectious Disease
Pediatric Nephrology
Pediatric Neurology
Pediatric Otolaryngology
Pediatric Pulmonology
Pediatric Rheumatology
Pediatric Surgery
Pediatric Urology
Pediatrics
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Plastic Surgery
Psychiatry
Pulmonary Disease
Radiation Oncology
Reproductive Endocrinology
Rheumatology
Sleep Medicine
Sports Medicine
Surgery
Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery
Urogynecology/Female Pelvic Medicine
Urology
Vascular & Interventional Radiology
Vascular Surgery
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