Scott J Duncan Md's Online Review Report Card

I am grateful for being able have Scott as my therapist for a number of years. He has been there for me through many life challenges and helped me to find myself through the darkness. He has always been accessible, supportive, honest, empathetic, great listener, provides urgent troubleshooting, and has approached all of our sessions in a manner that I knew no matter how I may present myself that day he would accept me. I have grown alot in my therapy with Scott, from developing object consistency, supporting me through much grief and trauma, increasing my self awareness in a wide array of areas and helped me to see my neurotic thoughts as just that thoughts not facts. I have had therapy prior to being blessed with getting Scott. For me, this has been and still is an amazing therapeutic alliance. The U of A Hospital is very fortunate to have him on their team.

I have been in therapy for a number of years. He has always been accessible, helped me overcome challenges and an amazing listener. I feel very grateful for having the opportunity to move forward in my mental health journey. Yes, there have been ruptures but he has always handled it in a very professional manner. The qualities that I value most are: Accessible, Committed to the therapeutic partnership Punctual Honest Safe and empathetic Supportive I am aware that as I patient we do the "work" so to speak, but I know undoubtedly that I am alive today because if his support and commitment to my wellness. I had several therapists prior and he has by far helped me ths most. Yes I have heard things I didnt want to hear, but he also supported me through the whole process. It is easy to trust someone when they are honest and straightforward. He doesn't tell you what you may want to hear, but perhaps what is needed, and only when you are ready. The U of A is lucky to have such an amazing therapist on their team, he will be severely missed when he retires.

Scott Duncan is a disgrace to the medical profession.Unfortunately, my husband was referred to this condescending, aggressive and poor mannered man. We were 9 minutes late due to searching for his office that is not clearly shown once you arrive to the building. As my husband and my young son continued to look for Mr. Duncan's office, I went to our vehicle to see if our appointment letter had clearer directions, which it did not. I was on the phone calling the office for the 9th time with no answer each time, when my son comes running out of the building screaming, "Daddy needs you." As soon as I walked into the office I observed that Mr. Duncan was being extremely rude, aggressive and disrespectful to both my husband and then to me. He refused to see my husband even though we had driven over 2 hours for this appointment. My husband is disabled and suffers from extensive PTSD, anxiety, depression and chronic pain. Mr. Duncan refused to listen to me when I explained we were on time, but a few minutes late attempting to find his office and that he didn't answer our multiple calls in trying to find the correct office once in the building. He blatantly ignored my husband as he was trying to explain and Mr. Duncan became combative by calling my husband names, using profanity and threatened to "kick his a**" if he reported him. He went so far as to follow us out of the building to our car with his display of aggression. This man should not be allowed to treat people so cruelly and with such disregard, especially people in need of compassion and who already suffer from anxiety. He also displayed this level of unprofessionalism in front of a nine year old child. Save yourself from a total waste of time with this so called doctor who could benefit from psychiatric help himself along with anger management, courses in professionalism and common consideration of the feelings of others. This man is a joke to the field he represents. "First, do no harm." He would do well to refer back to the oath he breaks. Read other reviews. We are not the only people who have experienced this three ring circus act called a doctor's appointment.

Dr. Duncan is one of the great ones. He’s compassionate, knowledgeable, and actually cares about his patients. He will follow up with you personally to see how you’re responding to treatments, and will make time to see you in the office if you have an urgent need. If you need to see a gastroenterologist, you won’t regret choosing Dr. Duncan as your physician.

Total narcissist who has a creepy manner. Talked about himself and other patients. Seemed to be feeding off the attention. Obviously has his own issues with women and gave no clear answer about what kind of therapy he does. A weird experience.

I can't believe this guy has a position inside a teaching institution, let alone the University of Alberta, which generally has an excellent reputation, and one in which all of my other and previous experiences have been nothing but positive. To say he reflects poorly - no, badly - on the institution is an understatement, and I have no doubt that there would a file full of complaints if the staff was mindful of this process. In my efforts to circumvent this very bad and wholly unprofessional therapist, I seemed to be met with one obstruction after another. But perhaps he's only evidence of a broader problem. I could be more specific about my complaint, and perhaps will be at some later date. Not only a bad therapist, but an actively destructive one - crosses many boundaries, extremely inappropriate, and generally unprofessional.

I have met with Scott on 3 occassions; initially, I was hopeful. He has an open eccentric personality that I enjoyed. After 2 more sessions, I am quite concerned. He seems to feel free very quickly in the therapeutic relationship to call a spade a spade. This strongly confrontational approach does not allow for much dialogue or much space for an individual to self-assess and take healthy responsibility. Instead it makes me very leary of sharing my heart/thoughts with this person; why would you tell someone your secrets, your hurts, your weaknesses, when their attitude is perjorative, and dismissive?? I do not see this a loving healthy approach when dealing with weak, broken, and wounded people. There is a kind of arrogance and lack of empathy in his approach, at least as I have experienced him so far. Listen to your heart; if you sense that he is kind of putting you down, reflect on that, and ask yourself if this is someone who is able to really help you heal, own your issues, etc. Take good care!

Constant devaulation of my experiences, opinions and even my motives in an attempt to bulldose me into complying with his poorly informed narrative. Exploited my people pleasing traits while I fought myself to remain calm, basically banging my head against a wall trying to engage him in pretty much anything of substance. I'll give you some examples of his "therapy": The first and only time I brought up my father having a "Jekyl & Hyde" personality, he replied "Yeah but isn't EvErYbOdyY Jekyl and Hyde?" I countered softly with "Not like this. NOT like this." The conversation was then shifted to shallower topics. He told a long pointless story about an article he read about crows near the end of the appointment (time theft much??) and when I asked him if there was a point or moral to this story. There wasn't. Never offered any kind of help for my frequent tardiness and missing appointments (which I take accountability for BUT doesn't mean my failure is my fault!) Now I know dissociation was partially to blame. Not his problem I guess. Clearly didn't believe me that I was previously tested and diagnosed with adult ADHD. I didn't know then that I also had PTSD, which he stupidly exacerbated by repeatedly bringing up my childhood trauma. Accused me of trying to get Adderall, which I told him point blanc during my previous appointment that I needed to be back on it to function. I had gone off it before because I was overworked and stressed at my job, losing too much sleep, also smoking lots and drinking coke/pepsi everyday. All that in combo with the meds was making me sick. I was great on them when I had a healthy lifestyle, I wanted to get back to that somehow. I've been on Vyvance and Sertraline now for years and it works just as well without the nervous side effects no thanks to Scott and Dr. Ginter. In my first appointment, I disclosed to him that I struggled with wiping/touching/blowing my nose because I lived in a small apartment with five cats at the time and had fallen way behind on cleaning bc of work becoming more and more exhausting, so I had actually inhaled a great deal of cat hair into my sinuses and lungs. He immediately said that's impossible, I followed with I had this checked by my family Dr. He wanted to screen me for psychosis, and repeated what I said as "But when you say you have a long hair inside your nose that's attached to your brain....." Should have been my queue to walk out. Way to establish the power dynamic, anyway hindsight is 20/20 as they say. I tried to address my inability to stand up for myself due to having panic attacks whenever I was confronted with rude behaviour. It happened when I was a kid, went away and had come back recently. He offered to print me out a card for those situations that said "Be patient, I'm AUTISTIC", by saying he printed it off for another patient, as not to upset me by being direct lol. Offered me a drink of water when I was having an anxiety attack and ruined the moment by saying "IsN't ThAt Niiiiice?", dude spare me. Answered in Jim Morrison quotes. Not quotes, song titles. I'm not twelve, I'm just traumatized but the main thing is to establish how cool you are. Yeah. Repeatedly brought up or implied the idea that I was autistic without any kind of testing. Refused to test me for ADHD, which he lead me to believe my previous diagnosis meant well, nothing. Feet on the table, either looking down at hands or staring at the wall while I was talking. Impossible to engage on any subject, oblivious to how arrogant this is toward the patient. While I was just about to leave, he hit me with "Ever see someone do THIS?" and did an impression of a hand-flapping stim. S*** eating grin on his face. It doesn't get more tone deaf than that. Suggested that I was autistic because I "didn't know the rules", which shows he's terrible at reading social cues himself, basically his fun little way of calling me stupid. Anyway.... that concludes this novel. I needed to get this stuff off my chest so it doesn't pop into my thoughts and aggravate me any longer. I'm only doing this because I am no longer an Alberta resident so I know this review doesn't interfere with my care in the future. It could have been a letter of complaint to the University of Professors/AB Health Advocate, but I didn't have the courage and I knew I'd likely be blamed due to my issues with attendance. A dark horse, huh? That time was supposed to be my therapy but instead you made it yours. I think it's time for retirement, buddy.

I am thankful for the lasting progress that arose from my time in group therapy. At the risk of sounding "cryptic”, here are some of the sentiments that group therapy yielded in me: Parent is synonymous with child When dealing with Grief, be sure to play Therapists are a dark horse Competitiveness works best with consent from all parties Knowledge versus understanding; there is a difference Dialogue is sacred Take pride; don't run--

Puts his feet on table first four sessions. Agree with anti millennial/gen z comment in here with his boomer attitude. Changes the way he talks to me when psychiatrist is in the same room. Extremely disappointed and untrustworthy.