Dr. Douglas Bruce Van Fossen, MD

Worst cardiologist out here!

Horrible doctor and should not be practicing...NEVER returns multiple phone calls from Hospice Nurse, Family in charge of patient, or patient's PCP. Will allow his patient to suffer on medication that they should not be on. Had to get a family member that is a cardiologist to get my mom off of the medicine he put her on so she did not suffer worse the last couple of weeks of her life. If I wasn't so busy dealing with her death and caring for my father, I would have gotten with the State medical board (as was suggested by my brother-in-law, who was the cardiologist that ended up helping her). Stay away from him and use other of the other doctor's at this practice. Timpko, Stacy, and Pamela are all great doctors (and NP) there.

Horrible doctor and should not be practicing...NEVER returns multiple phone calls from Hospice Nurse, Family in charge of patient, or patient's PCP. Will allow his patient to suffer on medication that they should not be on. Had to get a family member that is a cardiologist to get my mom off of the medicine he put her on so she did not suffer worse the last couple of weeks of her life. If I wasn't so busy dealing with her death and caring for my father, I would have gotten with the State medical board (as was suggested by my brother-in-law, who was the cardiologist that ended up helping her). Stay away from him and use other of the other doctor's at this practice. Timpko, Stacy, and Pamela are all great doctors (and NP) there.

It would be impossible to rate him any higher! 3 stents in the past 10 years and still alive and kickin'

Dr. Van Fossen did heart cath on my husband. Spent several minutes explaining findings, answered all of our questions. Excellent doctor, my husband and I both liked him really well.

While this being my husband's first time to see Dr. Van Fossen, we were impressed by the recommendations he made regarding my husband's medicines and also the questions he asked regarding his health. However, the thing we were least impressed about was being this was my husband's first visit and the doctor not really having known more of my husband's health history in full detail, considering the heart is his specialty, we were somewhat dissatisfied with his wanting my husband to be more mobile, even wanting him to go to a gym to get in the water and do some workouts 2 to 3 times a week. While this is OK for someone without the numerous health issues my husband has related to infections and mobility problems (which we're not going into at this time) I think the doctor should have taken the time to inquire more what his situation was. I understand doctors are on limited time also, but doctors do have the capability of scheduling new patient visits longer than the normal 15 or 20… mins. Therefore, he would have found out why my husband is not able to do the kind of workouts he was referring to. I guess somewhat disappointing. P.S. Office entry doors to the actual waiting room, not office building doors, are not equipped for people in wheelchairs. That was a big disappointment. You can't tell me they don't get other folks in wheelchairs. They need to be handicap accessible!

My husband has been going to Dr. VanFossen since undergoing by-pass surgery nearly 2 years ago. He is knowledgeable, competent, and compassionate, and takes his time and explains things well. We are very pleased with him and his staff.

All my family members go to Dr.Vanfossen,he is the smartest and best heart doctor I know of.On a scale of 1 to 10,he is a definite 10+.Have been going to him since 1986.