Bair Stuart, MD

We went to this Dr when he was covered by an insurance plan we had. At that time our son was about 7 or 8. Our son had been diagnosed by his medical doctor at about age 4 and given an RX for Ritalin which didn’t work well for him. He had tried other types and strengths with poor results at that time as well. Our son met a young man at his school a few years later. It was this fellows mom who asked us if we knew what Asperger’s Syndrome or Autism was, which we didn’t. Dr Bair did an evaluation of our son when we originally brought him to see him. Then as that was being done our insurance changed. He didn’t bother to contact us till we were again able to see him due to another change in our insurance, which was at least a year between the time we had seen him last. He then announced with our son in the room what his findings were. He didn’t allow us time to talk about it or to decide if we even wanted our son to be a part of that conversation. He was also not very nice to any of us at that point. This doctor shouldn’t be allowed to work with young children. I agree with other suggestions that he has an attitude and with that attitude he can and probably has hurt some of his patients and their family.

Unfortunately, I have to agree with all of the previous unhappy posters. We began seeing Dr. Bair because he was on our insurance and the only doctor who could get us in. We were told that he did not like to work with other counselors, etc. (should have been a red flag right there) and that what our son needed was more freedom, to go out and do things with other kids, and that we were too overprotective. He was very judgemental of our family and seemed to think that he had the correct answer for everything. Any concerns or research that we brought up were basically brushed off. He has a very strong personality and he and my husband did not get along from the start. After spending way too much time seeing this doctor and really not getting anywhere (except being told that everything was basically our fault) we finally got the help our son needed from elsewhere (after our son went into a crisis mode that again was down-​played by Dr. Bair). We should have trusted our instincts instead of listening to Dr. Bair-​our son is now getting the help he needs-​too bad it couldn’t have been sooner.

This man is terrible. Do NOT take your child here. I brought my suicidal son to him and Dr Bair made him feel worse. Dr Bair made my son take off his shirt, which was not relevant to any treatment. Dr. Bair in the end told me that my son was fine and all of his issues were in my head. He told my son to take up Lacrosse, which again, had nothing to do with why we were there. The next night my son ended up in the ER wanting to kill himself. Do NOT go to this outdated, irresponsible, non-​listening, unqualified so-​called psychiatrist. He will make any situation worse.

When my 15 year old son first started seeing Dr. Bair, he was kind and approachable.
After several months, Dr. Bair became more pompous, judgemental and arrogant. He began to diss me to my son and tell him not to discuss issues with me. He even told my son that I should be dating, even though I was having physical challenges.
He invited me and my son’s father to contact him, rather than each other, if we had concerns about something happening in the other person’s home. When I took him up on that offer, he was unwelcoming and rude. He told me he only meant if there was an emergency in the other home. He arrogantly looked at me and said that what my underage son was experiencing was NONE OF MY BUSINESS.
I wish I had done more research before I set my son in a course of therapy with Dr. Bair. He has not updated his technology, or his counseling philosophy. He is judgemental and out of date. Definitely not interested in working with the family as a unit.
Don’t go here!