August Piper

I have been seeing dr Piper for about 3 years and I can honestly say he is the only Pschiatrist I feel comfortable speaking with in all the time I’ve been meeting with various ones. With my issues it is hard for me to even get into my social and overall general anxiety/​panic disorders) and he offers you different techniques & literature etc. to help you deal w/​them. Super friendly & smart, I really appreciate him.

This is the worse dr I have ever been to I was diagnosed back in 2000 by 5 different psychiatrist this man sees me for 10 minutes yells at me makes me cry tell me to write why I am diagnosed what I am I am adhd I can’t so I wrote two papers he never read them. he yelled at me because they weren’t long enough. this man has made me cry twice now wouldn’t prescribe me my medicine that I have been on for years they are were addictive he tol me so what why should he care he said i don’t see you shaking right now. then he told me I was making him angry. If you need help vital changes is not the place to go

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by Former Office Manager on Apr 29^th, 2015
As I read these terrible reviews, I must tell you what happened behind the scenes. First of all, I stepped in to help August when his last office manager up and left with no notice because of reasons that are not his fault. What I walked into besides a billing nightmare, were patients who were running out of scripts early (abusing), lying about their identity, people with severe mental disorders who needed his attention, people calling and calling, essentially clogging up the queue of prioritizing who came first and a kind hearted man just trying to help people. People who couldn’t pay he never charged (his business is not about making money, it’s truly to help people who needed therapy and required medication). I figured out there were a «group». Of people dealing his medications he wrote for them, being sold on the bus, and at a local fast food restaurant. This activity put his business in jeopardy and we had to slow down figure out person by person who was abusing vs needing the medication. Unfortunately that effected the people who really were honest and NEEDED the Meds. People became real pushy with him and at times while I didn’t agree with his response, these were people who lied, abused medications and used this man for all they could get. The stories people came up with were insane. I was wanting those people out because if they were seeing any other physician this behavior would not be tolerated and they would be fired as patient immediately. So when I know how much money was coming through the office, it’s not for monetary reasons. He may have a different bedside manner with people, but he is a truly genuine, caring, honest and compassionate human being as well as a doctor. And for those that judged me at the time, I had been diagnosed with a neurological disorder which made my speech slur etc… And, if you saw how many thank you notes, ongoing that came in the mail vs the complaints on here, there’s not even comparison, he’s done more right for people than wrong and far more than anyone knows. Its a shame to not see that on here, but please don’t take these reviews at 100% face value. August has/​had too many patients who took advantage of him and his practice and at times that affected the people who really needed help the most!
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If I could give august Piper negative stars I would. I first want to start off by saying I am shocked to see that all the horrible reviews on August Piper have been deleted. I had the most horrific experience seeing him as a patient.
My experience sitting in his office was unprofessional from the first minute i sat in his office. I gave him two chances and the second time, he was so unprofessional and so rude to me that I told him i felt i wasn’t being listened to. He literally chased me out of his office and said «go on get out of here» no joke. I later told my therapist what happened and she suggested I report him which I still have not done, but seeing that his other reviews have some how vanished, where people were treated the same way I was makes me want to follow up on this. I won’t even call him a dr. because honestly i can’t see how he is one. What i witnessed sitting in his waiting area too should have been the red flag that I needed to run away. I witnessed him and a patient arguing and it was extremely uncomfortable.
I don’t recommend him and suggest that if you want your money’s worth and to feel like you are a valuable human being then I highly suggest you really do your research when finding a psychiatrist and go with your gut if you are currently a patient and don’t doubt your own intuition if you feel like something isn’t right. That’s where I went wrong. I didn’t trust my own gut feeling about him.

I have been a patient of August Piper for about two years. If you are super picky-​picky about how offices/​businesses are run, and need everything to be perfectly processed and have constant, instant customer satisfaction, I’d rather you not bother this good man with your silliness. I am lucky to have found a doctor who I can tell genuinely cares about what he does, but also doesn’t take any crap. If you want to go in and cry on someone’s shoulder, August might be a smidge sharp for you. He will be able to see through any façade you present, so be ready to be the most truthful version of yourself you can possibly be. He won’t waste your time, he will take your thoughts and ideas as seriously as his own professional input, and he will not hesitate in pushing you to GET TO THE POINT. Ready for no-​nonsense, no-​holds-​barred HELP with your life? Not interested in being coddled? This is a compassionate and intelligent man we are lucky to have amongst our seattle doctors. I admire him, I fear him, and I celebrate his influence in my life.
If you are having substance abuse problems, particularly with opiates, this is a doctor who can really help you, and you don’t have to miss work or go away or do anything that big to get started. He can start helping you today, and you can start feeling better faster than you imagined possible. So put on your big-​kid pants and give him a call, if you’re lucky he’ll still be accepting new patients and you’ll have taken one of the most important steps you can in getting back to who you are and want to be.
If you are struggling with other psychiatric issues, I doubt there is a subject he is not well versed in. I would like to see someone actually surprise this man, as I don’t think there is much he hasn’t seen or heard. This is a kind, intelligent, compassionate human being. What more do you need to know?