Davies Matthew MD

Awful experience, I was not expecting a charming guy thanks to the reviewers.
But this Dr, was blunt and disrespectful against my weight, shape, and hair style.
Even after seeing ask my strange symptom he refused to go beyond and explore more about my situation. He just acted by the book, no compassion. And pushing me to have a baby.
Crazy experience

Dr. Davies is the best doctor I have ever seen and one of the nicest people I have ever met. After being the subject of emotional and sexual abuse, I gained around 80 pounds. I knew a lot of it was stress and wondered if the stress on my body could be helped or reversed by going to see an Endocrinologist.
By the time of my appointment, I had managed to lose 15 pounds. Dr. Davies made me feel like a million bucks, like a person of worth again, because I had stemmed the tide, was no longer gaining and had started to lose weight. His encouragement at that appointment changed my whole outlook.
He took time to explain a lot about how fat stores works, gave me a diet plan, encouraged me to keep working out (I was working out about ten hours a week) etc,.
His single best piece of advice? After the trauma and abuse, I needed to regain a sense of control over my life — to be my own person again and control my own destiny. Following that advice and his other has helped me lose 38 pounds in eight months, and I am 19 pounds away from being healthy again and 29 away from my goal.
I couldn’t have done it without Dr. Davies. He is a saint and will always have my deep respect and gratitude.
Now time to get down to my goal and buy a bikini!

I liked Dr. Davies straight forward demeanor. He was blunt, to the point and didn’t waste time. He gave me his initial thoughts, and said I probably didn’t need testing. But he did as I requested and ordered the tests I wanted. He was a little late getting back to me with results, but perhaps I should have called as well. All in all, he is a great doctor, and I would gladly recommend him.
UPDATE: I have been going to Dr. Davies for sometime now and every time I like him more. I think that perhaps the first time you see him (as with many Doctors), he wasn’t as invested, but as I’ve kept seeing him for treatment everything all around has improved. His office offers My Chart, which lets you make appointments online, review your test results online and ask questions (all of which I have done, with quick results). Dr. Davies also dictates his patient notes in front of the patient at the end of the visit, which is nice to know. Highly recommend this doctor if you are looking for a rock star endocrinologist.

Let me put it plainly: You will NOT find a better endocrinologist in Washington state. You’d be hard pressed to find many with his knowledge anywhere. He knows multitudes more than most yet knows his limitations – he knows which areas are not his to treat and will tell you so. If he had chosen to be a car mechanic instead of a human one, he’d be one that NASCAR racers would swoon over and compete to hire, FACT.
The real magic of Dr Davies is in his ability and thoroughness with blood work and other objective data. He keeps every single item in mind while not simply handling people like they are robots. Every handshake and hello is pleasant and considerate; maybe his nerdy scientific brain isn’t as oh, sweeetie, I’m so sorrrry as people oozing with empathy, but frankly, if I had to choose what to have an excess of in any doc, I’d choose expertise and thoroughness, not dripping sweet mannerisms that don’t get numbers in line and systems optimized. I think his lack of drooly super duper sorrow for patients is this weird thing called respect. Even as a kid, I felt like that was a sort of mockery like someone patting you on the head because you can’t understand big things like anatomy. He speaks to his patients with integrity and respect. He doesn’t downplay issues OR make minor/​insignificant things the end of the world. If you’re a hypochondriac, he may not dramatize enough for you.
He treats bodies like complex machines that need to be well-​oiled, maintained around the clock, and occasionally fixed with more than just a patch here and there. He’s focused on real repair&optimization, not just symptom-​masking. What stands out most is the SKILL and sheer KNOWLEDGE-​his brain’s a meta-database!-that even his colleagues respectfully fail to deliver on. I endured one of those colleagues, my numbers wonky & me feeling chronically crappy before bam, the right medicine got tweaked and, for maintenance of ALL systems, I went on Vitamin D because thanks, Seattle, said the milk chugger to the gray skies when her calcium levels dropped not because of low intake but because moving from a sunny happy place to here, my body couldn’t keep up. Turns out my body needed a really HIGH amount of D – double a normal Rx to put my blood levels in the higher range within normal, which most MDs are too scared to consider, and the thoroughness proof came in checking (24 hour urine collection, fun!) to be sure I wasn’t losing calcium through my kidneys, to be totally sure it was just a matter of getting enough D to make it stay put and stick.
I’ll part with this: the last time I saw him was a 3-​month followup, which is our norm, and finally, after months of tweaking 0.1mg at a time (literally), I not only stopped having my blood pressure drop, which made me pretty wiped out, but he finally mentioned a test that he’d been quietly monitoring, one that matters but that was secondary to getting to regulating BP (yay adrenals, you stressaphobes!) and even for a while secondary to getting my calcium optimal since small females with broken bones in their history are just waiting for osteopenia (which I had for a while after my casts came off, a long 6 months to atrophy). I finally went in, saying yay, BP hasn’t had any issues, hurrah! What do you know? Mad scientist over there, hands rubbing slowly, methodically, while his computer screen transformed into a temporary set of bubbling beakers, revealed that this was my first time having that particular test in normal range… validation doesn’t hurt, no matter how sure you are this person’s right/​wrong in their assessment. I really appreciate that he doesn’t try this instant fix system of «let’s make them shut up» methods like giving too much or upping doses too soon. It’s taken a while to get everything exactly right, but you know what? I didn’t go through nearly the kind of awful side effect frenzy other doctors have caused with wham bam next patient methodologies. He may «only» see people 15 minutes in the office for followups (more if there’s something new that is problematic), but every minute counts; he spends hours outside that visit going through lab work, researching to be sure he’s up to date, and checking with your other docs to be sure he’s on the same page & isn’t going to interfere with other treatments you may have, not to mention to know if there’s a risk for conditions he isn’t an expert regarding. This may seem like we’re paying too much for too little time, but face it, this is better for all of us because if he can focus and deliberate in silence and call us later, so we spend less time waiting around and watching him work, likewise waiting around while others watch him. I think he’s probably the only doctor I’ve seen in town that has a truly efficient EFFECTIVE system. A decent number are effective, and plenty are efficient. Usually those things compete to exist. He made it work. I urge anyone with complex issues to let him take a look at your machinery.

A straight shooter, no nonsense and honest. Really listened to me when explaining my symptoms and actually gave informational feedback. Thorough in preliminary tests. Since then I have never felt better in the last 5 years. Thank you!

He listens and works with your desires — even if you’re stubborn (like me). Doing the radiation coupled with accupuncture has actually saved my thyroid. SAVED my thyroid! I had push back from Davies when I wanted a bit less radiation yet he conceded. I said I’d go in for another radiation if needed. However, coupled with accupuncture and herbs, my thyroid is fully functional and Normal!

I was a patient for five years. I felt Dr. Davies was very knowledgeable but not personable. Appointments were always 15 minutes in length and consisted of him asking me how I felt and then him telling me that my numbers were out of whack, changing doses and then coming back in a year to re-​evaluate. I felt that the lab result numbers were always more important than how I was feeling or symptoms I was describing. A year is a long time to wait to know if things are working. My hope was to have my hormones stabilize and to become pregnant. Neither of these things occurred during those five years. I had been willing so sacrifice bedside manner for a knowledgeable doctor but after five years?

I began seeing Dr Davies a few years ago during my thyroid cancer days. I cannot begin to express my relief at finding a doctor who finally LISTENS. I tend to over-​research my issues, gives me a sense of control and he was the only doctor who actually listened to my queries and answered them in a logical manner instead of offering platitudes.
All that listening would have done me little good if he had not figured out what was wrong with me and provided a solution-​all this from a laundry list of non-​specific symptoms, which had taken me to a neurologist, sleep doctor, cardiologist and finally a psychiatrist (its all in your head since we cant find what is wrong!), all of who could not figure out what was going on.
I am so very grateful that he is my endo.