Montesano Internal Medicine

Jun 2024

I really appreciated the care I received from the front desk and nurses. Dr Clara Shin took her time with me and helped create a health care plan for me. Nurse Kim was amazing at helping my mom in an urgent situation. we appreciate all of them!

Dec 2023

I will never go back to this clinic, but I hear that the treatment I received is typical of Grays Harbor county. The staff at the desk and the intake nurse were all great--it was the physician's assistant that was difficult the two times I went to this clinic. She complained that she had spent too much time with me and needed to get to other patients. I dredged up a list of medical issues from my previous providers (I moved to Grays Harbor from out of state) and provided it to the clinic per her request, but never got any response to any of these, aside from the PA's doubt that my biopsy earlier in the year had been necessary/legitimate. I felt like I was more of a bother than a patient with legitimate concerns, and I learned from this clinic that I will have to get my medical care in "the city," not here.

Jan 2023

My father was a patient of Dr. Shin. 5 years ago I had to fight with the office for a chest CT referral since he was a long time smoker and this is routine preventative recommendation. Only after discovering Medicare covered the CT cost did they make the referral (Medicare started covering 3 years prior to my request...guess this went unnoticed by an internal medicine office...scary). Fast forward 5 years and my dad goes into office summer 2021 with complaints that his head felt funny/hurt. Doc flushed his ear and called it good. Turns out it the funny feeling was skull metastasis from the stage 4 lung cancer he had developed. No recommendation for a brain MRI. Dr. Shin also had copies of my dad's chest scan reports and knew there were nodules growing in his lungs...no discussion or reminder for more frequent chest CT scans. My dad could have caught his cancer at an earlier stage with a more informed doctor. As someone who works in oncology, this is gross negligence and aggregious ignorance of screening for cancer. Stage 4 lung cancer is most often found in folks who don't get regular chest CT scans and don't have regular check ups. My dad was doing what he was supposed to do and his docs let him down. He recently passed..a year after diagnosis. Do your loved ones a favor and take them to an internal med doc who has some competition and don't get imaging at Providence Olympia.