Dr. Shelly Ruth Svoboda, MD

I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2000 and had a good doctor at the Corvallis Clinic until her recent retirement. She transferred me to Dr. Svaboda. As you can read from the other comments, she is a poor listener, lacks compassion, and spent a lot of time discussing a retirement home she's looking at in California. (How much is this appointment costing me? $360????). Like other patients, she made me feel like I was WHINING when I discussed symptoms that I'm dealing with, and completely shut me down saying if I'm not having an exacerbation I have nothing to complain about. Why does the Clinic allow doctors like this to continue practicing? It's no wonder they have such a bad reputation. THEN IT GETS WORSE. When I requested to be transferred to a different neurologist, they told me they have a "No transfer of care" policy, so I'm STUCK WITH HER. Be sure to do your homework before you agree to see a doctor at the Clinic because they obviously don't support they idea of… finding a good "fit" between long term patients and their doctors. Hopefully, she'll buy that house in California soon!

she is impersonal and rude. She should learn to listen to her patients instead of grilling them for a response, especially first time patients who are apprehensive about doctors. She should go to charm school.

She is awful. Was seen by her two years ago after a huge run around with the corvallis hosiotal er deoartment. Diagnoised with acute transversal myitilis and she had him take a ton of medicine to help it. Yep years later the patient is in severe pain with back issues and she cursed to see him and kicked him off her appointment list stating The patient was a high risk . high risk of what we asked and no body knew. Wow!!!

I went to Dr. Svoboda for a couple of years for dystonia symptoms. She once called and ambulance when I had an attack while giving blood. I told her to just call my husband. It was a 700 dollar bill and the ER released me no answers.She is a terrible diagnostician. When I was finally diagnosed by a rheumatoligist with an autoimmune disease and saw a significant improvement with my dystonia with medication, she told me it was a placebo effect and that my symptoms were psychogenic. She also was very short in the appointments and left me in tears on a couple of occastions. My rheumatoligist wants me to see a neurologist, but I refuse to go back to her or anyone in her office. These doctors are so overscheduled that they don't have the time to spend with their patients. They have no desire to do anything but push you through and take your money. Their compassion meters are also at zero. I also think Dr. Svoboda like many doctors go straight for the mental illness diagnosis. All I can say… is yes I am upset and depressed, not because I am mentally ill, but because I don't feel good.

I saw this woman a few years ago and will never forget it. While talking about depression she put her hands up to her eyes and said boo hoo life sucks, nobody cares, wa wa like fake crying. I was dumbfounded. I found her very unprofessional and rude. Never again.

I saw Dr. Svoboda in 2008 as a second opinion requested by my initial neurologist to rule out MS because of lesions found on my brain and multiple neurological symptoms. I have NEVER felt so "trapped or misunderstood" in my life as I did with this doctor. She was the coldest, non-sensitive doctor I have ever come across. She could not find anything specifically wrong with me, so she chalked everything up to anxiety and depression and said I needed to see a psychiatrist. When I tried to ask a question after she gave that final diagnosis, she kept putting her hands up and stopping me from speaking (multiple times). Of course because of this, I was crying (which did not help my cause - I looked depressed). I FELT TRAPPED - that's the only way I can describe it. She also had multiple inappropriate comments. When I asked her if there were exercises or stretches I could learn to help my symptoms she said this, "And if you were to exercise any more and become any more beautiful, we… would have to have you removed from this planet." STRANGE AND INAPPROPRIATE COMMENT!! When my horrible visit was over she was looking up her schedule on the computer and said this, "Thank God that patient did not show up, I will need to send her a thank you note. Now I'm not as far behind as I thought I was." She then said, "Boy, I have a doozie of a schedule today! And you think you have problems!" INAPPROPRIATE! Especially when she knows she has clearly upset me during the visit. The only reason I am revisiting this horrible visit in my journal from 2008, and in my mind, and writing this review now, 8 years later, is because I have just been diagnosed with disc disease which has been causing multiple neurological symptoms. I never talked about pain again to a doctor until two weeks ago because of this horrible doctor visit. My doctor ordered two MRI's of my spine and now referring me to a spinal specialist. I also had a positive Lyme's test which required physical therapy for pain and limited movement of arms in 2013. I need to free this woman from my mind!!!

Terrible appointment. She acted as if we were wasting her time, completely discounted me and my health concerns. Will never go to her again and will discourage others from seeing her. The only positive about the day was the staff.

She takes days off after having appointments booked which means I have to wait three more months to get in, just because she decided she doesn't want to work next Thursday.

Dr. Svoboda does not listen to me as a client but only does what she thinks is best for MY BODY, I feel as though I am a clinical trial or a statistic .

I found this doctor to be very courteous and professional, although I wasn't thrilled with the nerve conductive test, she tried to be quick and was thorough, I enjoyed her although I would not want to have that test done again as it made my arm pain even worse.