Medicine
17th Annual Top Doctors
The Region’s 412 Top Doctors
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…
Pain Point: Taking the Opioid Addiction Problem Seriously
Is the medical community doing enough to solve the opioid addiction problem?
When Rose Dennis’ 12-year-old son developed leukemia, it seemed that nothing in the world could be scarier. But she was wrong. Now 30 years old, her son is addicted to heroin, an addiction that had its roots in the opioid pain medication his physicians prescribed to help him deal with the cancer. It led to…
Seattle Magazine’s Top Doctors 2015
The 459 best physicians in the Puget Sound region as chosen by their peers
Stories by Sally James, Amelia Apfel, Sheila Cain, Elsy Pawelak Niki StojnicFor 15 years, we have asked Seattle-area doctors this question: To whom would you send a loved one for medical care? And every year, more than 1,000 doctors have taken time out of their busy schedules to nominate the peers they trust and admire—initially…
Top Docs ’11: Adolescent Medicine
Adolescent Medicine Cora Collette Breuner, M.D., M.P.H., Seattle Children’s Hospital, 4800 Sand Point Way NE, 206.987.2028, University of Washington Medical Center; Jefferson Medical College, 1982; biofeedback, eating disorders, sports medicine Ann Giesel, M.D., Seattle Children’s Hospital, 4800 Sand Point Way NE, 206.987.2028, University of Washington Medical Center; University of Louisville School of Medicine, 1985; pediatric…