Stafford R Grady Jr, MD

As good as it gets for sure! I am in my 24^th year of being a patient of Dr. Grady’s and I wouldn’t have it any other way! I met Dr. Grady the day I was born. Since then I’ve so appreciated the care he’s given me. A balloon catheterization, a million EKGs and echocardiograms, and an ASD septal occluder procedure at 19. I love that as a kid my doctor was as interested in my soccer games as he was my health. This all around care is seriously lacking and Dr. Grady’s terrific at it. As I’ve gotten older, he has given me the chance to find a new doctor but confirms that he’s always an option. He explains the science of the heart in a way that intrigues and doesn’t frighten you as a patient. I remember when he explained that I would need a procedure done when I was home for christmas break one year. He had me so interested in what was going to happen that we ended up with pieces of paper out drawing out the procedure so I knew exactly what was going on. I am now 24 and doing my prerequisites for nursing school. I’ll be applying for fall 2012. I hope to be a nurse in the NICU. Dr. Grady’s interaction, care, and expertise has definitely inspired me.
Dr. Grady was my doctor. Now he’s family friend and doctor.

Dr Grady has been monitoring my daughters heart murmur since she was a newborn, and he is one of a kind! Yes, he is chatty… thankfully! I am tired of doctors who treat you like a number, get in and get out quickly. This is not that kind of doctor! On top of the care my daughter received, he also answered questions and discussed another family member with a very unique heart condition who is not his patient… which went above and beyond what is expected of any doctor. Everything he said was accurate and caring as though he knew this family member personally, and he gave us great referrals of cardiologists in another state. I have researched him on my own, he is excellent in his field and well known. Pediatric Cardiologists are a tight knit group and they have bedside manners that are unsurpassed… choosing Dr Grady is a wise choice.

Dr. Grady does give an extra personal touch in his practice, and what a nice change that is from the usual doctors who treat you like a number! Sure, you need to allow an extra 30 minutes for «chat time» with Dr. Grady, but in other offices that extra 30 minutes or more can be spent waiting for the doctor to even come in the room. I was amazed at the lengthy discussion on our first visit, and our baby did get frustrated at the whole process but it was an important visit and we all survived. Dr. Grady is a proven cardiologist and you want him to be interested in his patients and their families, he is dealing with your childs HEART after all. Not a place to skimp on details. You should also allow an extra 30 minutes of play time, his practice has one of the best toy-​equipped waiting rooms that I have ever seen!

We have used Dr. Grady for three years since our son has a Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD). The initial appointment was personal and I felt like he cared for my son the minute he met us. We did not vaccinate him but Dr. Grady encouraged us to do so. We still chose not to but every time we went into see Dr. Grady, he encouraged us to get him vaccinated. His encouragement was gentle and matter-​of– fact. I never felt like he was threatening me or thought I was a bad mom. In fact, he told me I was a good mom. This was music to my ears after having a very bad experience with Dr. Whitney. Dr. Grady is a personal and casual type of person who loves children. He is a very good doctor and my children love him. I trust him with my son’s heart!

Dr. Stafford is a pediatric cardiologist. He knows what he is doing and I would certainly trust his medical opinion of a heart condition. Unfortunately, I didn’t like our personal interactions with him at all. He asked question after question that was totally irrelevant to the case and he wrote down the answers in our file (like you need to know what my father does for a living or where my husband went to college). It was as though he had read some book on networking and was trying to create a database of people by brute force. All of this would have only been a minor irritation if my baby had not been upset the whole time. Quit the chit chat and get to medical procedure if my baby is unhappy. Lastly, though he did provide the disclaimer that it was only his opinion, he gave us his diagnosis for what was wrong with our baby based on no knowledge about lactation nutrition or any other relevant issues. I thought it was really inappropriate and ultimately I think he was completely wrong. He even said, «Your baby is acting hungry.» You have no idea how my baby acts when she is hungry and she was not hungry, she was upset from the dozen tabs that got stuck to her skin to monitor her heart beat. And then more upset that you spent a half hour grilling us about our personal lives and yammering about the horses in your stables. I would not go back here. Stanford may be a drive, but I expect to get more consideration for both my privacy and my baby’s comfort.