Carlson Gretchen MD

Doctor Carlson has been a huge help to me and would highly recommend her. She truly cares about patients well being.
Lou
Brown

I would not recommend Dr. Carlson to my worst enemy.
I believe it benefits the patient for physicians (specifically specialists) to coordinate care and customize therapies and medication for each patient. I am on a medication prescribed by a doctor who specializes in a different specialty than Dr. Carlson. The particular medication has an off label use for pain management, which is the reason I take it, not because I’m an addict. I was very up front with Dr. Carlson and provided the name and phone number of the doctor who prescribes the medication in case she had any questions. Dr. Carlson refused to even call the prescribing physician, she assumed that the medication was only used by addicts and had no other off label use which isn’t the case.
I found her to be very judgmental, cold and downright uncaring. It says a lot when a doctor refuses to contact another doctor to discuss and coordinate patient care.

I haven’t seen Dr. Calson in a little less than a year, when I moved out of state, and I have had an extremely difficult time finding anyone that I can feel comfortable trusting now. She was wonderful, no one has compared yet. She did misdiagnose me in one area, but with other medical problems and the grieving I was going through, and the very similar disorder I actually do have, it was understandable, and I think anyone else would have done the same with the information she had. I truly believe had Dr. Carlson not been my therapist and psychiatrist at that time in my life, I wouldn’t be here today. I only hope someday soon I can find someone else like her that I can trust with my medications, I’ve at least found a good therapist. I’d suggest her to anyone in WA, I used to drive from Camano Island to see her.