Alan Failor, MD

I went to see Dr. Failor by recommendation. What an absolute joke! My entire experience with him really seemed like a bad joke. I saw him in clinic and communicated by email a lot. Initially, I just thought I needed to be patient and hope nothing bad happened while being patient for this Dr who is supposed to be an expert. Well, that didn’t work out for me and as my health was becoming increasingly critical he became less helpful. Thinking back at these months, it still amazes me just how unhelpful and condescending he was to me. I’ve built really strong great relationships with my providers so this was surprising to have such a fail. I finally decided with the original referring Dr to go to a real expert in the country and along with some actual really smart and kind Dr’s in Seattle we got to the bottom of my problem that resulted in a major surgery. Again, this guy was a joke and documented to be wrong wrong wrong! I wouldn’t recommend this UW Endo provider to anybody. I’m glad I’m on the road to recovery but it is no thanks to Failor.

Worst endo ever. Does not return phone calls, does not talk with patients directly, does not listen to them. (Julia Z: I completely feel you. I hope you found a better doctor.)
The last straw was trying to get in touch about an issue I was having and I had to communicate with him through his nurses who would then have to email him, wait for a reply from him, then call me back. It was ridiculous. I’d be better off asking some random dude on the bus for endo insight than to try and talk with this doctor. Please note: Once you *are* talking with him one on one at an appointment, he will condescend to no end and will not listen to you.
His last name is Failor for reason: Do yourself a favor and go elsewhere.

I have been seeing Dr. Failor for over 10 years, he has been nothing but professional, kind, knowledgable, and attentive. Between my personal experience and those of the many, many people I know who also see Dr. Failor, I do not know how the previous review is possible; however, I am willing to concede that Dr. Failor may have had a bad day. I also know that there are other factors involved wrt to this particular review — Dr. Failor is simply the best.

I’ll be blunt: Dr. Failor and I did not see eye to eye. In fact, he didn’t listen to me at all.
I waited ten weeks for an appointment with him and when I got there, he hadn’t read a single word about me; he didn’t even know my first name when he walked into the exam room where I’d been (somewhat) patiently waiting for him for thirty-​five minutes (he was running 45 minutes late and I was on time). So he spent 10 minutes of our 12-​minute appointment reading and scribbling on the lab results and notes that were sent by my regular doctor. Then he spent 2 minutes peppering me with questions, felt my neck for about 10 seconds (I was not there for thyroid!), said, I need to pull some more bloods on you but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with you, and then left.
WTF?
Whatever happened to?
— bedside manner
— taking a complete medical history
— reading the notes BEFORE the appointment
— looking at me when you’re talking to me
— educating the patient
— common decency
He was so rude.
They pulled more bloods on me (the same ones I’d had done a week before the appointment, and which were in a lab report under the first one — he didn’t look at them) and the hormone levels were still low but they called me back from his office and said they were normal.
Needless to say, I got a second opinion, and that doctor diagnosed low hormone levels and came up with a treatment plan that involved several hormone gels — and which worked, according to lab reports AND my subjective sense of how I felt.
Dr. Failor had been given rave reviews by others I knew, including the doctor who referred me to him, but to me, he was just an ass. Maybe he was having a terrible, terrible day, but having billed my insurance company $ 400 for that 12-​minute visit (that’s $ 2000 an hour, more than my plastic surgeon makes when he’s doing intricate surgery!), I think he needs to leave it at the door and deliver excellent care.