Farooqi Ruby MD

She was the first doctor I saw in Seattle. I broke my finger while unpacking boxes and wanted to know if it was just jammed or actually broken (tape it or splint it). She looked at it and said there was nothing you could really do with a broken finger and kept asking me about my endometriosis – another time, really, I’m in pain and my finger is black and the size of a football! She also told me x-​rays would be a waste or time. Then she insisted I come back to her for a Pap so she could study my Endo. I tried to explain that I like specialists for my lady parts, but she was very insistent. I never went back to that office, choosing instead to drive to Northgate rather than walk to the Ballard polyclinic. In fact, I left her office and went to the ER where i had x-​rays and had it set and splinted properly.
I hate going to the ER for small things.
Which is why, two years later, when I had a wound on my foot from a fall/​road rash, i called Polyclinic (I switched to Northgate from Ballard and had a new PCP) and made a Saturday appointment. Lessen learned. Go to the ER if your bleeding.
Ended up with Dr. Farooqi again, who was doing weekend hours at Northgate. She should have irrigated it to remove the asphalt/​rocks and stitched it. Instead she had her PA clean it with cotton pads and bandage it. When blood was dripping on the floor of the exam room and I refused to leave until they took another look, Dr Farooqi decided to cauterize it. Well she said, «I guess I could cauterize it, if you want.»
Umm you’re the doctor, do what you think will make it stop bleeding. So she cauterized it. No numbing. I screamed like Rambo. It was by far one of the most painful procedures ever. She then prescribed me some Ibuprofen and told me to get a boot and crutches. Umm. Really! I couldn’t even walk out of the exam room without help and was crying for several hours due to the pain.
I went back to my doctor on Monday and while he couldn’t tell me how badly she messed up, he was clearly shocked. He did what he could and prescribed me actual pain meds, as by this point the wound was worse than when it was dripping blood and it was bleeding through the cauterization. Plus it was getting infected, because it wasn’t cleaned properly. I was in pain for months with a non healing wound that left a massive scar. My friends who are doctors (in San Francisco and New York unfortunately) explained to me what should have been done and suggested I just go to the ER when bleeding from now on.

Not sure why Unilocal’s protectionist ways have hidden this review, perhaps they didn’t get enough protection money this month.

I really like Dr. Farooqi. She is so sweet and kind. I have been seeing her for about 2 years now and she always remembers me when I come in (about twice a year) and always follows up a day or two later to see how I am feeling. She always gives me the options available and asks me what I am ok with. I have been working to get off an old medication for a few years now (yeah for withdrawal symptoms) that I no longer need and she has been a huge help. Med refills are always fast too!

She’s been late for the last and only two times I saw her. Currently going on 20 minutes and counting. Expected another ten minutes probably from the receptionist.
The doc is nice enough though. You have to ask her why she is prescribing various things though.
The front end staff are not the greatest at following through with messages request and are not very detail oriented.

Dr. Farooqi sees my entire family and many of my friends! I went to her first many years ago. I had such a wonderful experience. She is kind, genuinely interested in your concerns and well being. I can take a long list to my annual wellness exams, she will carefully address each and every question. She also documents and remembers everything so I don’t have to remind her or «catch her up» on everything again after a year like other Doctor’s I’ve had. After having some minor health issues a few years back I started to recommend her to family and friends of all ages. She follows up personally by phone at home to check up on us if we are ill. She’s kind of an old school Doc. We all love us some Dr. Ruby. She’s amazing… so is her staff.

I had a horrible experience with Dr. Farooqi. I made the mistake of looking at the map and thinking she was in Swedish Medical Center and would have the associated good reputation, but I was wrong on both counts. Awful communicator, rushed and impersonal.
Dr. Farooqi seemed only interested in getting me out of her office as quickly as possible. I haven’t had serious discomfort during an annual in years, but this one was awful — rushed and painful. When discussing my migraines and what I have done in the past to treat them, I was met with a blank stare and «So… you want to try a medication?» Sure, I guess. No information on side effects or possible medication conflicts, no communication of «I’ll give you a small prescription, follow up with me if it works/doesn’t work” — NOTHING. That’s not just rude, it’s dangerous.
When I mentioned tightness of breath while running or doing physical activity, she actually shrugged at me and prescribed and inhaler, again not giving me any information on how/​when to use it or what (if anything) to look out for. No tests, not even a single question — just prescribed me a (full price, non-​generic) inhaler– the pharmacist ended up calling the office to request a prescription for the generic version to save me $ 50.
No respect for my time, money, or health. Never returning, and speaking with my insurance company about the exceptionally sub-​par service.

Truly awful. Poor at communicating, treated me like a drug seeker and didn’t follow up on what she’d said she would. This meant that I didn’t get the prescriptions she said she would send in– my daily, necessary, Zoloft.
When I finally realized this (which, because I’d assumed she’d do her job, wasn’t until I was nearly out of pills) I called the office. One of the receptionists was very nice and seemed helpful and said she’d send in an emergency one month supply, which I was grateful for.
At that point, though I’d already decided I’d never see Dr. Farooqi again given her poor bedside manner, the disrespect she’d shown me, and her ineptness at a Pap smear, I felt okay about it.
So I went to my pharmacy to pick up that prescription AND SHE HADN’T CALLED IT IN. I’d now been going for a few days without my pills and had a breakdown, which never would have happened had she, or her office, done their job. NEVER AGAIN.

Let me be the first to acknowledge the kind of care we all deserve from our doctors…
Dr. Farooqi is kind and gentle, yet has a way of bringing you and your health back on track. I have always felt like she was speaking to me and not at me and that she is genuinely interested in my health. She makes recommendations that make sense and provides exceptional healthcare and service.

Had my ladies bits in for an annual examination – my regular doc was on vaca – and Dr Farooqi did the pap. Worst pap ever. I was actually wondering if she’d ever done one before outside of medical school. First of all, she asked to change into my robe and hop up on the bench and briefly left the room. She game in and gloved up with speculum in hand before I noticed THE DOOR WAS OPEN. Heellooooooo??? She pushed it closed with her gel-​covered sticky glove and then when for my nethers. I had to ask her to change her glove. The final straw: she found a polyp and asked me if she should remove it. DON’T KNOW. I’M NOT THE DOCTOR. Never again.