I've been lucky as far as getting matched up with good doctors. I have a tendency to really research them before I see them, EXCEPT when I was being shoved from doctor to doctor and specialist to specialist because everybody knew there was something wrong with me but they didn't know what it was yet. One doctor that everyone said was very good but a jerk, ended up being incredibly honest and respectful with me and one department that was supposed to be totally dependable screwed up big-time on a set of my second of three MRIs in five months.
The neurologist who diagnosed me with MS was fantastic and he just recently retired. I struck even greater gold being able to take a look at the other two neurologists the CPA I really like works with and I found a neurologist that is absolutely fits the type of MS I have even better. (Now I just hope he doesn't retire for quite a while! LOL)
But I've also ended up with doctors and specialists that have sent me looking for doctors and specialist who I work with better. There are all kinds of qualified people and all kinds of people in need. A mutual line of communication and respect is necessary for it to work on both ends. It hurts so bad when I talk to other people from other MS patients, to other chronically ill patients, to people just going in for a yearly physical, who come back saying they don't feel respected and they don't understand half of what their doctor tells them. But they keep on going back because they don't think about the fact that they just don't have to. If there are better choices - make them! When it comes right down to it it's just their paycheck. It's your LIFE.
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