Santosh A Agnani, MD

Dr Agnani is an amazing psychiatrist. He does exactly what a psychiatrist should do. He evaluates you with the information YOU provide and decides accordingly a diagnosis/​diagnoses and prescribes medication to help treat you, if that’s what you need.
My quality of life has improved immensely because of Dr Agnani I just hope that the other reviewers understand that psychiatrists are not therapists. Every visit I have with him (about 6 – 7 years now I think), he asks if I am still seeing a therapist. Therapy is much different than psychiatric treatment.
Dr Agnani is responsible for getting me on the correct regimen needed for my mental health needs.
I am a very emotionally sensitive person. It’s sometimes hard to see the ‘matter of fact’ physician but I also know that it is not his job to coddle me. It’s his job to pay attention to the facts about my mental health.
Dr Agnani is an incredibly intelligent, professional, busy and dedicated psychiatrist.
He has been late a few times but he is dealing with the mentally ill. He works at a hospital in patient facility as well. You cannot predict what each day will bring. As with any other physician, we have to be patient.
I would and have recommended Dr Agnani to anyone that is seeking a psychiatrist.
I also concur that Alicia, the receptionist, is an kind, caring, accurate and irreplaceable component to the practice.

I really like this doctor. It seems like a big issue people have is he’s a psychiatrist not a psychologist. I’m a psychologist and my job is therapy, he’s a psychiatrist and his job is meds. That’s why it’s good to have both and yes they generally do talk to each other. I’ve been diagnosed bipolar for nearly 14 years with my first symptoms developing 16 years ago. I moved back to Washington from Colorado and was really worried about getting a new psychiatrist because every time I do they change my medication around because THEY want to see how I cope. Dr. Agnoni did not do this he listened to me and proscribed my regular meds, changed the dosage a bit because it was genuinely needed and gave me a couple of «as needed» proscriptions for when my symptoms start getting hard to control with my regular medication. If you want a doctor to hold your hand than Dr. Agnoni is not for you. If you want a doctor that doesn’t waist your time, he always asks me if I’m comfortable with what he proposes, than Dr. Agnoni is for you. I’m very busy and don’t have an hour to spend in a doctor’s office. A five minute med check is all I need. If I want to discuss «underlying» issues than I go to my therapist and WE make the decision to go to Dr. Agnoni. I think it would do good for people to remember the role of a psychiatrist vs the role of a psychologist. This may sound harsh but it’s the truth, trust my I’m a psychologist.

I agree with everything Karen says.
I’ve seen Dr. Agnani for about two years; possibly less. He was recommended by a LICSW based on word of mouth. I went to him for this reason and because he was covered by my insurance and close to my home at the time.
I generally have his first appointment of the day (11a) to which he is always (Yes, always) late and in a hurry. I think he works at a hospital before his office hours.
He has taken calls on many occasions, which I said was not a problem, but apparently happens to more patients than just me. He is very curt and I’ve timed our sessions; they generally last four to no more than seven minutes. (On top of my $ 45 copay, my insurance company pays him over $ 100; close to $ 200 per session)
He ends every session by saying, «God bless.» I don’t mind people having their faith but your faith and my medical necessity have nothing to do with each other.
He has, on 3 occasions (Yes, 3), written my prescriptions inaccurately. I was taking Lamictal 100mg and out of nowhere he wrote it as 200mg. When I asked him about it, he said that was impossible then said it had always been that way. My prescription bottle said 200mg and the pharmacy confirmed it was written differently and I had been on 100mg.
Most recently, he shorted my Adderall prescription by 150mg/​month for no reason. I asked him to fix it and he acted like I was a pill popper. I drove to Bellevue on my day off, from Burien, as I was told my correct RX was ready. It was not. I waited 20min in the lobby only for him to come out and get another patient instead of writing my RX… lucky for me, he was done with that patient in 5min. He wrote me my «correct» RX… however; it wasn’t correct, again. Now, he increased the Mg but decreased the quantity. I asked the receptionist to see my chart. He popped out from the door with an attitude and scribbled the quantity off and doubled it to my appropriate dosage. I asked again to see my chart and neither he or the receptionist obliged.
Apparently, he can’t be bothered with patients or trivial things like prescription accuracy. Now I’m working on a preauthorization for his new and inaccurate RX and the paperwork keeps going back and forth because his office can’t fill it out correctly.
Beware. Go elsewhere.
Sadly, one of the receptionists, Alicia, doesn’t seem like a bad lady. She’s very nice but over-​worked with too many doctors. I can’t imagine what it’s like working for him.

Very unprofessional, rude, interrupts, doesn’t listen, doesn’t care about patients at all. Answers cell phone during sessions but not when you call the urgent line. Tries to get patients in and out of the office as soon as possible. Incredibly condescending. I want to help people to not have to go through the same thing I did when it comes to their medical care.