Grassman Eric D MD PHD Stevens Cardiology Group

To start with, I had a horrible hospital experience with this guys colleague, Ralph Althouse. However, a wonderful woman at Swedish Heart & Vascular (where these two men work now), insisted I needed to see one of their doctors so she arranged for me to see an Eric Grassman. I explained to him that I have had too man really bad medical experiences and don’t have a lot of faith in doctors. Unfortunately, instead of trying to understand me as a person and deal with me, he took this uppity attitude that was basically «I’m a doctor so I am right.» He came off as arrogant and uncaring. I tried to say good things when he explained what they actually did (which the original doctor did not do). When I tried to ask about research I have done on the medications they wanted to give me in the hospital (and he wanted to give me) he said «We are doctors and we know what is best». (Like doctors are somehow just superior to everybody else.) He vaguely explained why I needed to take one medication (though he did not explain why so many articles say it is bad, or why it shouldn’t be mixed — again just «I’m a doctor — you have no right to question what I say».) He prescribed a second medication with no explanation at all. The second medication turned out to be rather expensive for my budget and since I have no idea why it was needed I am skipping it. Oh, and his other line was «If you don’t take the medications I say you have to you will die». That is an exact quote. A bit melodramatic, a bit over the top, and I am pretty sure a line every medical care provider has used since the first shaman said «Take two roots and call me in the morning.» No reason why I should believe him when I had already expressed to him that I had no faith in the word of a doctor. If I could give negative stars I would.
If you have any choice whatsoever, do not go to this clinic. The non-​doctor staff is wonderful, but that doesn’t help when the folks that should know better are total jerks.