Dr. Suzanne Mary Hammer, MD

I have been a patient of Dr. Hammer's for 17 years. She has always been an advocate for me and has seen me though some tough times. I look forward to our meetings and would whole-heartledly recommend her.

I really enjoy my visits with Dr. Hammer. She always listens and always makes me feel better after every session. I can easily talk to her and she makes me feel at ease. When I talk about things or people that make me upset, she makes comments which make me think about the other person's perspective which I had not thought about and makes me feel better about the person or situation that was causing me anguish. She never yelled or been upset with me. I always look forward to my next session with Dr. Hammer.

dr hammer never lost her temper or yelled, listens well. Overall easy to get along with.

i feel dr hammer will not abandon you or throw you out. Overall okay to good.

She's an odd person, but she's a psychiatrist, so I thought it went with the territory. She seems to be paranoid and often confronted me in a hostile tone over things she thought I was directing at her. She got increasingly impatient and overtly nasty when I experienced side effects from the meds. she prescribed. Very little "therapy" occurred. It started to feel like I was there to somehow validate her existence and if I didn't provide it, I would pay. I had been referred to her by my primary doctor, who said she was rated top doc, so I put up with this behavior far longer than I should've. My new doctor said it's common knowledge that she's uncaring and considered strange, but she's voted for awards because she is the only one willing to do association tasks that no one else will do. Thanks doctors. Put patients at risk to keep this disturbed lady busy with tasks you don't want to do. Way to go. I put up with this "doctor" for almost a year and almost offed myself because of her… unprofessional behavior. She should not be allowed around people.

I saw Dr Hammer for several months. I never went to a psychiatrist before so I thought I needed to give it a decent amount of time before making any comments. In retrospect, I should have left Dr Hammer a lot sooner. As I look back on my visits with her my precious time & money was completely wasted. I now know I was misdiagnose & she didn't help or didn't truly want to help me. I went to see her on recommendations from another doctor. Another thing that annoyed me was she over charged me for parking validation stickers! This is the first time I ever paid a doctor directly for parking validation stickers that she purchased from the independent parking management company that manages parking structure in her building. I discover this when I recently had an appointment with a different doctor in the same building. This new doctor mentioned that these parking validation stickers are inexpensive to purchase for the building's tenant & said there is another doctor in the building that makes… money off her patients by charging her patients extra for each parking validation stickers. That;s when I realize that Dr Hammer did that on all my visits with her. I hope she doesn't do this anymore or hopefully reads this & realize how tacky and unethical it is to make a profit off of her own patients for a few extra dollars. It was usually under $5 per visit. But still it adds up. More importantly, it's a matter of principle. Patients seek doctors they can trust & rely on their helpful expertise. No one wants to get taken advantage of & not receive the help we are seeking. Isn't the doctor's first hypocrite oath is to do no harm?