Dr. Suzanne Fiala
Family Medicine
Seattle, WA
32 years experience female
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Suzanne J. Fiala, MD
Seattle, WA
My office hours
Friday: 8:30am - 5:30am
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Aetna
Cigna
First Choice Healthcare
Group Health Cooperative
LifeWise Health Plan of Washington
Premera Blue Cross
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UnitedHealthcare
About
Bio
I am a proud graduate of the University of Washington School of Medicine and residency training program where I was elected and served as Chief Resident. I have been practicing 18 years and love my job. My special interests are in women's health, pediatrics, mental health and holistic medicine. I enjoy teaching, and focus on treating the body, mind and spirit in a partnership with my patients. After years of practicing in hospital-owned clinics, I left the model of corporate medicine five years ago and opened my private practice. 600 of my patients came with me, and my practice has more than doubled since that time. I am now able to take the time to build meaningful relationships with my patients and provide comprehensive, personal care that meets my standards. I have found my niche, and my style of practice works for my patients, and for myself as well. I am passionate about my profession and love going to work every day.
SpecialtiesDoctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Doctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Family Medicine
gynecology
pediatrics
preventive Medicine
Languages spoken
Czech
Doctor Q&A
371 Answers
42 Agrees
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A 21-year-old male asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Causal effect: Helicobacter pylori is a bacteria known to contribute to stomach ulcer and gerd symptoms. It is relatively common. If you have never before had gerd... Read More
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A 27-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
See a doctor.: Have you seen a doctor, who diagnosed the staph infection? If so, you should have been put on some oral antibiotics, unless the symptoms were not thi... Read More
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A 22-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
See doc, get u/s: Generally count weeks starting from the first day of your last period, if you know when that was. Generally by 16 weeks, baby bulge is halfway to umbi... Read More
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A 22-year-old male asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Yes: Yes, this is quite good for not being a regular runner. It shows you have a good baseline of health.
If you want to become a runner, start slowly an... Read More
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A 23-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Possibly folliculiti: White bumps t the hair follicles of the pubic hair with some surrounding redness may be "folliculitis" , or a staph infection in the hair follicles. ... Read More
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A 36-year-old male asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Brush: Brush with soft toothbrush
floss daily morning and night
dentist each six months.
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A 28-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Infection: This suggests infection - either localized "boils" in the underarms from shaving and/or ingrown hairs; or a symptom of a larger, systemic infection so... Read More
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A 39-year-old male asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Complicated.: It sounds like the rainouts abdominal pains are gastrointestinal in nature, and not related to your ear or urine. It may be you have one major health ... Read More
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A 36-year-old male asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Eat: Eat well, exercise; take adequate calcium; regular exams.
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A 25-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
See Ophthalmologist: Have you been treated by a doctor, or simply used otc drops? At this point i recommend an eye specialist, an ophthalmologist to do a through exam, po... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Unlikely: If you have received your depoprovera shots on time plus use condos, it is very unlikely that you have become pregnant.
And no, the Depo-Provera sh... Read More
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A 18-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Talk about it: If it is a good friend, bring it up, express concern for her and her health, and offer s upport. . Recomend she get some mental health counseling to ... Read More
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A 48-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
.Check in with doc: An aso titre is a marker of recent streptococcal infection. The titre levels may stay elevated for 4-6 months after a severe strep infection. Concer... Read More
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A 36-year-old male asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Don't: Don't just go to appointments but do your "homework" exercises regularly.
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A 19-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Could be infection.: Not sure if you are referring to the vagina or anus as your "private area", but i will guess you are talking about the vagina. Some white or clear mu... Read More
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A 22-year-old male asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Possibly: If you are masturbating, say, a dozen times in a day (in other words very frequently), then yes, after you have cum a few times and start again, each... Read More
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A 55-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Trochanteric bursiti: You may simply have an inflammation of the bursal sac that overlies the side of the hip joint, your symptoms are typical. However, since you have an ... Read More
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A 53-year-old male asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Cholesterol: Atorvastatin is a medication for lowering high cholesterol. It is in the statin family, closely related to the better known drug, lipitor (atorvastat... Read More
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A 32-year-old male asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Depends: Alopecia, or hair loss, may be caused by a variety of factors - low thyroid, severe anemia among them. The hardest to treat is the type where no caus... Read More
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A 26-year-old male asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Icem NSAID, obs: An elbow to the head -ouch! probably caused a bump called a hematoma which is a collection of blood just under the scalp.
The skull is quite thick an... Read More
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A 29-year-old male asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Check it out: The penis is an unusual place to develop traditional acne symptoms. Any lumps or bumps on the penis are considered std's (ie papilloma virus) unless ... Read More
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A 28-year-old male asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Depends on height.: It all depends on your height. You can look online for a "bmi calculator", and if you enter your gender, height and weight will find out your bmi. ... Read More
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A 56-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Breast Center correc: Statistically, it is only the maternal side of the family, and probably only first-degree relatives (mothers, sisters, aunties) whose history of breas... Read More
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A 57-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Depends: By swelling head, do you mean you have a hard, tender lump on your head from hitting it on something? If so, this is called a hematoma and is a col... Read More
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A member asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Possibly: Evening primrose is an antiinflammatory and a hormone modulator, so it may help somewhat with ovarian cysts. Chasteberry and red clover are other he... Read More
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A 26-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Hope not!: Early miscarriages within the.First 12 weeks of pregnancy are quite common, one in fivepregnancies end in early miscarriage.
If you have had just the... Read More
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A 35-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Maybe: Have you tried taking the pill with food, or at night? If you do so and it still causes stomach upset after a two-month trial, follow up with your do... Read More
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A 34-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
No.: Babies tech their "developmental milestones" in their own sequence. The fact that your baby can pull to a stand from sitting suggests he/she is dev... Read More
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A female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Check it out.: Emily, this could be within the range of normal, or not. It depends on many factors- the age your own mother started having periods, whether you have... Read More
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A female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Yes, probably.: It does you an injustice to diagnose you based on a few sentences. However, severe flashbacks of past traumas are known as ptsd (post traumatic stres... Read More
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A 19-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
UTI or other: You are having classic symptoms of a urinary tract bacterial infection; other possibilities include an undiagnosed sexually transmitted disease. Both... Read More
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A 25-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Yes.: Yes. Whether confidential or not, please let your oral surgeon know that you are on Methadone and what dose. This is important information for post-... Read More
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A 47-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Check it out: Most likely fatty tumor or fibrous tumor, less likely possibly femoral hernia. See a general surgeon. Sounds like nothing serious but in general if ... Read More
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A 18-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Yes: Yes you will be okay. If you are generally in good health. 18 years old and with no history of heart disease, you will be alright. However this is a... Read More
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A 31-year-old female asked:
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Family Medicine 32 years experience
Light diet: If his stools have returned to normal, sounds like he is recovering from probably virus or food-borne infection. He should push lots of clear fluids,... Read More
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A 18-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Infection: Most likely a urinary infection that is advancing up into the kidney. A kidney infection, called pyelonephritis, is a serious condition and can damage... Read More
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A 42-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Probable cyst: This sounds like a sebaceous cyst, or furuncle. By "comes and goes" do you mean that it drains occasionally? This is a typical cyst with sebum, or a... Read More
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A 20-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Unsure.: Have you had a traumatic injury to the knee? Is there swelling? How long has it hurt? More info needed. This could be a sprain/strain or a damaged l... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Yes.: Severe stress can cause memory loss, confused and jumbled thoughts, panic attacks, and interrupted sleep. Often people with severe stress feel as tho... Read More
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A 50-year-old male asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
No.: You are not mentioning which organ is getting an "echo" test. But in any case, fasting is not required. If it is a cardiac echo, no special prep nee... Read More
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A 19-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Baker's cyst?: This could be an orthopedic knee injury that sometimes appears as pain in the back of the knee. Try a knee brace, icing the area 20" 1-2x daily, and ... Read More
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A 36-year-old male asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
DO: Do get a full assessment by a trained professional before you consider a trial of medication.
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A 40-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Slow down!: This is excessive weight loss in two weeks, i suspect you are getting less than 1500 calories. Shoot for 3# weight loss/week maximum. Increase your ... Read More
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A 36-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Could be wax, other.: You could simply have a lot of wax in the ear, or something that doesn't belong there. I have pulled out scraps of paper, beads and even a cockroach ... Read More
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A 23-year-old male asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Yes.: Smoking and drinking may be harmful for other reasons, but will have no effect on your internal hemorrhoid.
Add fiber to your diet, plenty of water... Read More
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A female asked:
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Family Medicine 32 years experience
You really can't.: You really cannot make the vagina actually "tighter" without surgery. Especially after childbirth, the entrance to the vagina is more "loose" than it... Read More
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A 49-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
No, check it out.: This may be a fungal infection, such as ringworm, or a different type of scalp infection. It may also be idiopathic - a symptom with no obvious cause... Read More
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A 38-year-old male asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Yes: A 2 mm stone is tiny, and should have no trouble passing. As long as you are not experiencing back or flank pain, or severe abdominal pain, the tiny ... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
Dr. Suzanne Fialaanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Don't worry: Bv, or bacterial vaginosis, is not harmful in pregnancy. Bv is a common vaginal infection of bacterial overgrowth and imbalance in the vagina.
Dai... Read More
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A 35-year-old female asked:
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Family Medicine 32 years experience
Other ideas: Try miralax, (polyethylene glycol) 1 capful mixed in liquid 1-3 x daily. This works well for most people. F you are really locked you might benefit ... Read More
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Mar 23, 2015
Great doctor. Consistently gives thoughtful, insightful and expert advice.
Mar 7, 2013
Great, compassionate doc!
Mar 25, 2013
Great responses.
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Thank you, your answer was very helpful! But docter at the time of erection when i pull it down pain occurs.skin is very tight and it does not goes down the circle of my penis
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Thank you, your answer or tip was very helpful! My midwife say if am not cramping & if its not a lot & not to worry but can't help if its our first baby but thank you again
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Thank you, your answer was very helpful! Perhaps that's why the docs threw me on Clonidine since I have such weird, labile and unpredictable BPs.
Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
University of Washington School of Medicine, WA
Graduated 1991MD
Medical/Graduate school
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle
Graduated 1991MD
Residency
Tacoma General ALLENMORE HOSPITAL
Awards
Top Doctor, Seattle Metropolitan Magazine
Georgiana Kirby Award - Graduating class of 1991, University of Washington
Elected Chief Resident - Tacoma Famly Medicine Residency 1990-1991
Affiliations
Washington Academy of Family Physicians
American Academy of Family Physicians
Publications
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