Swedish Family Medicine - First Hill
1401 Madison Street
Suite 100
Seattle, WA 98104
About
Haley Parsley
"If someone were to visualize my “home”, it would be an eclectic, rainbow-clad quilt. I was born in Alabama, grew up in the South and in Colorado, and somehow ended up in Florida for post-secondary education. An everchanging landscape, my childhood instilled in me that the world was much larger than my suburban backyard, and I was determined to tackle it all. At the age of 13, I flew with my parents to China to adopt my baby brother Tai, who, as someone with disabilities, had waited 2 years to be adopted. The orphanage representatives refused to have us at the facility due to its condition and instead brought Tai diaperless with a small bag of all his belongings. We would later go back to adopt my two youngest brothers, similar to Tai’s situation. Advocating for my brothers, I became acutely aware of how poverty, disability, and race affect how people exist in this world, and that I possessed an incredible amount of privilege. I also knew that had my brothers been without medical care in China, they would be poorly functioning or perhaps not at all. It was then I determined that I would become a physician and wield my privilege to help those less fortunate. I went to college at the University of South Florida and completed a degree in Integrative Animal Biology and Spanish. I grew my deep appreciation for language and culture, while fostering my nerdy ambitions in biology and evolution. One summer I studied abroad in Argentina. Another, I took to the Rocky Mountains, working as a camp counselor with people with disabilities. I attended medical school at Florida State University College of Medicine. There I deepened my roots in advocacy and primary care. I acted as a medical translator for patients abroad in Nicaragua and those working as migrant farmworkers in South Florida. Coming to terms with my own identity as a queer individual, my passion for LGBTQ inclusive spaces and medical education took a fervent hold. The hetero- and cis-normative culture of medicine pained me, as I watched it seed distrust and grief in my community. The more I worked with the above communities, the more I realized the importance of prevention, education, and advocacy in ensuring a patient’s best foot forward to achieve a healthy, fulfilled life. And, alas, primary care came knocking at my door. I am incredibly humbled and amazed to take care of the Seattle community alongside the First Hill family, a program that pivots its medical education around the themes of social justice, community involvement, and advocacy. My clinical interests are LGBTQ health, addiction medicine, comprehensive reproductive healthcare, and HIV medicine. Outside of clinic, I can be found at parks with my partner and our pets, listening to music, hiking beautiful terrain, or nursing a boba at the nearest tea bar. As both a queer haven and a gorgeous outdoorsy place, I am proud to call Seattle my home."
Primary Specialty
Family Doctor