August 2021
Adolescent Medicine: Raising Healthy Teens
This increasingly important specialty is fast becoming a parent's secret weapon.
The kids are pretty much past the cute stage when they see Dr. Leslie Walker. Not for her are chubby babies cooing during checkups, toddlers playing with her stethoscope, 6-year-olds proudly showing off how many letters they can read on the eye chart. Nope, she gets the sometimes surly or silent crowd, the ones with…
Health Care On Demand
Not only are hospital and clinic amenities changing—the way we access our primary care doctors is being redefined. Both Seattle-based Qliance and Virginia Mason’s Lewis and John Dare Centers offer care where monthly or quarterly fees get you 24/7 access to your doctor and other medical services. Qliance operates clinics throughout the Puget Sound region,…
Our Favorite Patient Perks at Local Hospitals
OB Speed datingSwedish Medical Center offers sessions to help prospective parents meet and select an obstetrician. Concerts in the LobbyAlmost as good as concerts in the park. Volunteers at Evergreen Hospital Medical Center and Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue ease hospital jitters with piano concerts. Overlake has violin players and a harpist, too. Talking…
The Pampered Patient
Clinic makeovers and more personalized amenities are transforming patient care.
Remember when hospitals and clinics were drab, impersonal places with harsh, fluorescent lights, cluttered hallways and mass-produced rubber-chicken dinners? When drab gray and blah beige were the dominant color schemes? Things have changed, thanks to a boom in hospital construction and a philosophical shift toward patient pampering that goes way beyond valet parking and online…
Local Bars with Patios and Great Summer Cocktails
Summertime and the outdoor drinking is easy...
Day after day of bright yellow rays and temperatures creeping almost into hot territory are leaving me and most Seattle folks dazed and blissful. Not only are these halcyon days charming to walk around in, sit around in, ride around in, and wear less around in, they’re also wonderful for drinking outside. While I’m not…
Whatever You Do, Go Outside This Weekend: A Special Summertime Must List
MUST GO OUTSIDEOlympic Sculpture Park Summer KickoffThursday (7/12) – Beginning this week and continuing every Thursday evening through the summer, Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park features a rotating lineup of fun, including food trucks, live music, wine tastings and other special events. This evening, Eduardo Mendonça’s Show Brazil! and the VamoLá Drum & Dance…
Things to Know Before You Ride the Seattle Ferris Wheel
Heed these words before visiting Seattle's new waterfront tourist attraction.
1. If there are only two people in your party, you will probably have to share a pod with strangers. Hopefully you will get paired with a nice, socially competent couple from Mukilteo (like I did). Otherwise, congratulations! You just paid to join a cruel social experiment: Seattle strangers trapped in a glass bubble and…
Shop the Summer Sidewalk Sales this Weekend
Get ready to pound the pavement: Along with the arrival of glorious weather (yay!), several neighborhood shops are throwing open their doors this weekend and placing their wares outside for the perusing. So enjoy some sun whilst you shop: West Seattle Start the weekend early over at Clementine’s, where owner Linda Walsh is teaming up…
Notes from Tom Douglas Culinary Summer Camp
On Friday, the day after this year’s Tom Douglas Culinary Summer Camp ends, an aching hunger will set in, especially around 10 in the morning when campers realize nobody is feeding them an endless buffet of bites of the amazing food they’ve just seen prepared by a parade of uber-talented chefs starting last Sunday at…
Grab your Tickets for the August 1 Red, White & Brew
Though it may not be its official moniker, at Seattle mag we view August as “Washington Wine Month” — what with the 25th annual Auction of Washington Wines, the impending grape harvest and the debut of our Best Washington Wines list in the August issue. What better way to kick off the wine-filled month than…
Opening Today! Skillet Counter at the Armory
The construction covers are off and the doors open this morning to Skillet’s new concept at the Armory at the Center House. The crown jewel of the new kingdom of food offerings in the completely redesigned space, the Counter, as they’re calling it, is predominantly just that: a large, open kitchen enclosed by a long…
High Tech Help for Preventing Sports Brain Injury
A Seattle company could hold a key to solving the nationwide epidemic of sport-related concussions.
The numbers are staggering: An estimated 3.8 million sport- and recreation-related concussions occur every year across the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But a Seattle company could hold a key to solving the nationwide epidemic of sport-related concussions. X2Impact has created head-impact monitoring systems to help team physicians and athletic…