Best of the City

Top Doctors 2025

Our annual list of the best health care professionals in the region.

09/10/2025 By Seattle Met Staff

Vax Americana

This UW Doc Was Fired from the CDC’s Vaccine Panel

Helen Chu learned about her termination from an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal.

08/05/2025 By Taylor McKenzie Gerlach

Sensitive Content

This Local Oral Surgeon Is Taking Dental School to TikTok

What is your tooth doctor doing in your feed?

02/24/2025 By Taylor McKenzie Gerlach

Injury Time

Sounders Doc Michael Morris Says Goodbye

The orthopedic surgeon built the Sounders’ medical program—then got to watch his son star on the team.

07/11/2024 By Conor Kelley

Modern Medicine

Rise of the TikTok Doc

Dropping medical knowledge one video at a time.

09/06/2022 By Angela Cabotaje

A Cut Above

How Dr. Snip Became Seattle’s Unofficial Vasectomy King

The man, the myth, the nickname.

09/13/2021 By Angela Cabotaje

So You Want to Be a Doctor?

Overcoming the Burnout Blowup

Doctors and other health care workers should look in, then out, to clear career exhaustion.

09/06/2021 By Benjamin Cassidy

So You Want to Be a Doctor?

Tough Residency Pills to Swallow

A handful of recent Swedish and Virginia Mason residents deliver hard truths about the liminal stage of medical training.

09/06/2021 By Benjamin Cassidy

So You Want to Be a Doctor?

Abroadening the Medical School Search

The opportunities and pitfalls of going international.

09/06/2021 By Benjamin Cassidy

Shade Index

Not-So-Top Docs

Signs your doctor might not be great.

07/17/2018 By Seattle Met Staff

Top Doctors

Top Doctors 2015: Adventures in Medicine

Patients share their experiences, from breast cancer to chronic pain, gender identity, and childhood anxiety. Illustrations by Owen Gatley

08/04/2015 By Jeanny Rhee, Aoife Reilly, Christina Tiberio, and Atoosa Moinzadeh

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How We Did It: Top Doctors and Nurses 2013

715 practitioners in 75 specialties made this year’s list of top doctors and nurse practitioners in the Seattle metro area.

08/01/2013 By Karen Taylor Quinn

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Stories from the Front Lines

Eight local doctors tell us what it’s like to rescue a trauma patient, administer end-of-life care, save a life with an organ transplant, and more.

07/12/2013

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Trade Secrets: Catch Quality Zzz’s

Lina Fine of Seattle’s Swedish Sleep Center offers tips on how to achieve a full night’s rest.

11/28/2012 By Danielle Zorn

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Vital Signs

A night at Highline Medical Center’s $28 million emergency unit.

07/11/2010 By James Ross Gardner

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The Doctor Is In a Fix

Martin Cahn went into general practice to help people and unravel the mysteries of their ailments. Now he just wishes someone could do the same for a health care system gone critical.

07/15/2009 By Eric Scigliano