Whidbey Medical Clinic 231 Southeast Barrington Drive, Oak Harbor, WA 98277

"The wait time was on the board for 30-60 min. I was put in the exam room for 1 1/2 hours and nobody re Turned yo the room until the PA finally came in. I fe Lt it was a complete waste of my time."

"RUN from this office. I have had a total of 3 appointments here. One to establish care, one to review labs and a third as a follow up for an ER visit. The fist visit was the typical run of the mill care visit, with a few gems peppered in for fun I assume. The doctor seemed pleasant initially but then started discussing his political views. This should have been my queue, but I wanted to give the benefit of the doubt. When going over my history, Dr. Thorpe blamed my long term symptoms on the covid vaccine and started talking about how ineffective it is. I made a comment about how that doesn’t bother me because it was likely what saved me from being hospitalized due to covid. He dismissed what I was saying. I mentioned another issue I had been having long term and he told me his wife had it worse. Should have left then. The ER follow up takes the cake, however. I called to schedule the appointment and was asked several times why I needed to come in. When my appointment rolled around they called to verify where I was seen. I had already gone over that when I made the appointment, but hey, we’re all human. I see their lovely nurse first, who has been friendly each time I’ve seen her. The doctor came in shortly after covered in crumbs. Again dismissing my symptoms and refused to write a referral, saying “we already know what you have. They aren’t going to do anything for you.” And continued to talk about diet(which is related to the condition but I already received that information). No further labs or tests, just “oh well we know now so it is what it is) attitude. It was at that moment the fate was sealed. Never again will I go to this office. They do not take patients seriously nor do they seem to care."

"I love the staff, and I can’t say enough good things about my Dr or both Drs for that matter, they don’t play God they were given a gift by God to help people and they treat you how they would want someone to treat their family"

"I have had nothing but helpful, friendly and professional service, as well as very good medical advice and care. I love this place."

"This place was surreal. None of the staff, including doctors, were wearing masks. I had to request that they put them on. I have a long list of diagnosed chronic and complex health issues, and needed a lot of referrals for specialists, some long overdue and pretty urgent to prevent things from progressing (spinal cord compression, prolapsed bladder among them). The doctor acknowledged that I had a lot going on, and ordered some bloodwork, and then proceeded to not give me a single referral, despite the fact that I had waited 4 months to be seen, and they refuse to give more than 1 referral per visit, and the soonest I could be seen again was 5 weeks later. The icing on the cake was when I got covid a month later, despite being as careful as possible, and when I called right after testing positive, it took 2 days to get the doctor (or any dr despite calling and leaving messages) on the phone. When I asked about getting a prescription, the doctor said "the only treatments for Covid are hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin". I said "what about Paxlovid" and he continued on like I hadn't asked. I was coughing stuff up 24/7 for a month, and now have a number of symptoms I didn't have before, which I absolutely didn't need on top of everything else. Additionally, those labs he ordered showed high cholesterol and anemia. Never heard a word about it from the dr. NOPE. They also sent me a bill for an office visit when that was already covered by my insurance. HARD PASS."