Lifetime Family Practice

Dr. Hansen helped me with a pre-​existing condition by not only prescribing medicine that worked, but crucially, explaining my condition to me in a way no one else had. He’s a knowledable and responsible physician who is passionate about what he does, and I like that… I always know I’m going to get his honest opinion, and that’s what I’m paying for. I also like his comfortable office.

I was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis 22 years ago when I was 16. A.S. can cause lots of pain and seems to get worse over time. However it comes and goes. Sometimes I can go a year with no real problems, just some minor persistent neck and hip pain. You get used to it.
Due to on again off again nature of AS I don’t really have a personal relationship with any rheumatologist or primary care physician. I just call whoever is closest when the need arises and go see them.
This was the case when I visited Dr. Peter L. Hansen, MD of Lifetime Family Practice. My place of employment recently leased the building directly across the street from his practice. Great! When I first arrived I was asked to fill out some forms. One of the questions was what drugs am I taking. Currently I take Meloxicam, multivitamin, and fish oil daily, so that’s what I put down. In the last year I was also prescribed 20 hydrocodones and 40 sleeping pills from the last rheumatologist I visited. General pain and sleep issues are very common for people with arthritis. 20 pain pills and 40 sleeping pills in a year is nothing to get excited about… at all. Anyway, seeing as the hydrocodones were long gone I didn’t put them down. I still have the sleeping pills, but it’s not something I take regularly so I didn’t think to list those.
Immediately he starts grilling me about those drugs and says he thinks I might be a «drug seeker». He tells me he ran a report of controlled substances prescribed to me in the last year… and OMFG I got 20 hydrocodones and some sleeping pills once. If I am a drug seeker and all I have managed to procure in the last 365 days is 20 hydrocodones and 40 sleeping pills I must really suck at… He then proceeds to tell me a story about some lady who also worked across the street at a mental health office who was getting drugs from the doctor who worked there and was trying to hustle him for drugs. He then tells me she got off with probation… I think thats probably a breach of confidentiality and also possibly total bullshit. At the very least it’s plain unprofessional to discuss medical history about someone who works in the office right next to mine.
So I try to reassure him all I want is some prednisone for my arthritis breakout and a steroid shot. This is pretty much how every flare up I have had for the last 22 years has been treated.
He gives me a scrip for the prednisone but acts like me wanting the shot is just me «drug seeking» again…
After I leave and go back to work I get a call from him about 20 minutes later. He googled my place of employment to find the address to see if I was really across the street. He saw that I was but wanted to let me know that we had a typo on our website. Basically he wanted to show me how smart he is. Actually he also spent our entire visit at his office trying to impress upon me just how smart he is. Good for you, Peter.
Lastly I’d like to say at no time during this visit did he actually look at the wrist I was complaining about, you know, the actual reason I made the appointment.
I will not be going back to Lifetime Family Practice.

I have just come back from my first appointment with Dr Hansen and all I can say is, I picked a gem. He was very helpful, informative and friendly. Definitely someone I could have a beer with. The receptionist was very friendly and accommodating too.
Nice practice. A+++

I have been seeing Dr. Hansen for 16 years. He is a wonderful, down to earth, no nonsense doctor. I tend to have fairly high expectations. I have always appreciated the services his office provides. Ann the front desk woman is on top of her stuff and always there to warmly greet you. Thank you both! I’ve never had an issue there and am one that visits a couple times a year.

Thank you for keeping me and my children safe in your waiting room from anti vax nutters!

At least he’s consistent! In 2010 there was a similar review to what I’m about to provide. I’ve had a couple visits with Dr. Hansen. I would not recommend him at all. His bedside manner is atrocious! He’s YELLED at me in the past due to his strong beliefs which he feels the need to shove down others throats (regarding immunications, flu shots, etc). Literally up close, in my face, excessively raised voice. Thought I was being punked, and looked around for cameras. Today, once again, I came in for a renewal of a prescription (required a simple blood draw), and he asked me if I’d had my flu shot. When I said no, he got loud again. Wanted to agressively debate why I wouldn’t get a flu shot, going so far as to tell me that living healthy isn’t how you stay well — I NEED the flu shot. He then moved on to the tetnus shot. Asked how long it’s been since I’ve had one, and when I said I wasn’t sure, but I knew it wasn’t in adulthood, he asked if he could give me one right then. I said no thank you. He went on this rant about how surely I was going to be exposed to something and pass it along to a baby or child, and they could die, and how would I feel knowing I am a baby-​killer! I just stared at him in disbelief. Truly — you feel like you MUST be getting punked! When I didn’t respond or argue with him, he resorted to telling me that today was my last visit, he didn’t want me for a patient because there was clearly something wrong with me and I am going to be a babykiller one day.
So, unless you would like to have someone elses beliefs shoved down your throat, and your Dr yelling in your face, I highly recommend you stay clear of this Dr’s office.