Spees Annelise S MD 3210 North Academy Boulevard, Colorado Springs, CO 80917

"My friend goes to see Dr. Annelise Spees for her daughter, suggested I call her for a specific situation. I tried getting in touch on 4 different occasions, but because we are self pay due to the fact my husband and I are self-employed we will not be accepted there. Then why not tell me that the FIRST time I called instead of giving me the run around? Why not be kind instead of snobby on the phone? Why not be the kind of office to give suggestions and be helpful so that people will WANT to refer you and not rude and judgemental resulting instead of a negative review. I didn't even get to talk to a Dr to give a review of them,just the front desk. But if that's who the Dr's want to represent them, then enough said."

"We took our 2 year old son to Dr. Spees office close to 3 weeks ago now. We were at the office for 2 hours and only saw the doctor for 30 or less minutes. She at the end of our visit declared that our son did not have autism because he made eye contact with her. I took my son to Brain and Body where they did a 3 1/2 hour evaluation. They determined that he does in fact have Autism. The evaluation Dr. Speea did was a complete waste of my time and a joke. I would not recommend going there."

"I am so disappointed this office. We have had multiple (4-5)appointments canceled with not only DR. Spees but with the PAs (Laura, Melanie and now Peggy). We book our appointments 3 months ahead of time and then to have them canceled the week of is very disappointing. It seems like they have so much turn over and my son needs to be seen at a reliable office. I don’t know if the management there is terrible or what but I do not have any trust in the care for my son at this office and will be finding a new doctor for my son."

"Took 3 months to get an appointment. When appointment finally arrived, Dr. Spees was 45 minutes late, looked at our child for 10 minutes, then left without any sort of verdict. My husband decided to schedule a follow-up appointment with just us to discuss how to proceed. At that appointment (also 30+ minutes late) we started asking questions about possible conditions and she let us know that she had already diagnosed our child and that it wasn't really any question--which was definitely news to us! So then we asked her for it in writing so we could proceed with some different treatments. She was like "yeah sure." We asked about different therapies and if we should start them and she said "if it were my kid that is what I would do..." Then we asked about different diets, etc. and again she said "if it were my kid, that is what I would do..." Basically, she suggested nothing to help and was totally vague. In addition, we asked about some biomedical testing and she agreed to order an EEG for our child--thank God we filled out a release at the EEG place to obtain the results, because Dr. Spees never called us with the results (this was a $1300+ test out of pocket!). The staff was nice enough and Dr. Spees was not rude or anything, but I was very disappointed at the lack of helpfulness--our normal pediatrician knew a lot more resources, treatments, etc. If you want your child to actually get better, I would not recommend this office."

"I don't even know what an appropriate "star raiting" would be for this office. I feel it's unfair to the Doctors, and generous for the front office staff. Dr. Annalise Spees has been great with my child. She interacts and communicates with him, more than me! She is thoughtful and conservative with her approach to treatment of behavioral concerns. However, the line must be drawn somewhere with the front office staff. Charlene (front office) is very kind and endearing, though I have experienced on (at least) three occasions within the last 6 months, where I felt she was complacent, confused and incompetent? This is mainly due to scheduling "mishaps." What is worse than checking out of an appointment and reconfirming (from the patient side) for the next appointment, only to get a deer in headlights look and a frantic search on the computer, only to come up with an, "I don't have an appointment scheduled for you that day, I don't even see you in our schedule at all!" OKAY...? This has happened too many times and I'm trusting this person to correctly bill my insurance? Collect money from me? After speaking to the office manager, it was extraordinarily clear to me that my frustrations were more or less, not too much of a serious concern. Apologies and an offer to reschedule were the only solution. My only logical reply, "do the Doctors who run this practice know they are losing patients, due to front office incompetency?""