Awful visit. After suffering a stroke in August, I was FINALLY seen to receive a home heart monitor…read moreon December 3rd. Receptionist seemed more concerned about my ID than about why I was being seen, and when I was seen, it was by a pair of nurses but no doctor ever came in. The monitor I was given after waiting FOUR MONTHS didn't even work. It was fitted to my chest and I was given extremely rushed instructions and told the "phone" I was given would let me know about any problems with function. It worked exactly 20 minutes before it repeatedly kept telling me the monitor had "poor skin contact" (this was after shaving part of my chest with the world's dullest disposable razor). The machine did this repeatedly throughout the night, making sleep nearly impossible. Either set me up with the right equipment or at the very least, don't make me wait a third of a year for faulty equipment (which apparently needs to come from the other side of the country?). My blood pressure and nerves really don't need more aggrravation, especially from an office with 18 doctors--none of whom even bother seeing the patient on their initial visit.

Waited t months for a blood panel and INR check. Arrived at the clinic, and blood drawn. I asked,…read moreINR? No Dr did not order...Dr Le, cardiologist did not order, I was livid. Cnled my apt for two days later, no need to go, No INR. I slammed them on My chart. No health care here especially Dr Le...I fired her and will/will never go back. Apt in Salt lake with a heart specialist mid May Dismissed three doctors... Mack Foss Spokane Valley

I'm thankful Dr. Boulet was NOT my regular cardiologist but someone who stepped in for one of the…read moreroutine rounds while I was hospitalized after a heart procedure. He may be talented and well received by many and this could just have been an off day. I know physicians like anyone else, maybe more so, can get burned out or suffer exhaustions, etc. However, he was more than grumpy, yelling at me and at the attending nurse because he didn't like that my surgeon did something different than he would have. As if the nurse was responsible for my surgeon's course of treatment. Furthermore, instead of trying to figure out why my surgeon prescribed what he did, Dr. Boulet just complained about three times, in a shouting voice that could likely be heard down the hallways, before finally conceding he had agreed to honor my doctor's orders. He also was practically yelling at me to do a follow up with another specialist about something that had been handled well over six months ago and for which no further follow up is either needed or logical. His yelling and general grumpiness was to the level I almost wondered for a moment if he would fly completely off the handle and throw the computer or something. Not only no "bedside manner" but really, losing one's temper as a professional and with a patient who just came out of heart surgery? Really? The worst thing IMHO, is that he made an outright statement on my medical chart after the visit that was medically wrong - so wrong it would be patently obvious to anyone (consumer, patient, medical team) who understood what I was there for and had just had done -- and most importantly why it was done -- that his comments were shocking.