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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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 Posted - 12/07/2003 : 22:49:13
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Snake wrote:quote:
Oh Great. Just what I was hoping this folder would be.
Brother, have I got some questions.
Don't have time now to explain the entire situation but the basic question is:
Where can I find a doctor? (NOT how....I know the questions to ask, of the doctor I will choose),
I'm running out of places to find one. Not even the doctors I go to now can tell me where to find what I need.
Thanks for any info or help.
Unfortunately, I think to answer this question, a person would need to know the details. Although if your own doctors don't know where you should go, I suspect that you'll be out of luck asking here.
One of the things that I've heard is sometimes effective either in "tough" cases or in cases in which private-practice doctors are in short supply is the "teaching hospital." Not only is their job to teach up-and-coming doctors the right way to diagnose and treat patients, but they also tend to be very interested (because of the teaching potential) in "difficult" cases, where the diagnosis is borderline. They also often have "discount" rates (or even free clinics) through subsidies, as I understand things. I've had no direct experience in this, but have heard from people who swear by the teaching hospitals they've found. I'd be interested in finding out how true this really is, or if the folks I've heard from have just been extremely lucky.
What constitutes a "good doctor" is always an interesting subject, however, even if only tangetially related to your question. After all, the "doctor as god" problem has been around for a long time, and seems to be slowly going away as more doctors realize their patients are getting some decent pre-diagnosis information from various Internet sources. Doctor as "coach" of a doctor-patient "team" seems to be becoming a more popular modus operandi, at least from my perspective.
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Edited by - Dave W. on 12/16/2003 20:37:48
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 12/17/2003 : 07:58:06 [Permalink]
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"Put de lime in de coconut an' drink him all up......"
Sorry 'bout dat. 
In these days of exotic specialization, exactly which bone sawyer to go to all depends upon what ails you. It seems pretty straightforward to me (alas, I'm on a first-name basis with many in the Durham VA's Ortho Dept  ). Good GPs seem to be slowly becoming members of an endangered species.
This may sound a little off the wall, but, if you live in a large, urban area, you might go the 'phone book. Of the many practitioners and clinics listed, one might be just what you're looking for. If you are a redneck from the sticks like me, you might make a healing pilgrimage to an urban center and borrow one of their phone books.
For this last, don't use a book from a public urinal 'phone booth. Half the pages will be missing and the remainder, you might not want to handle.
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Woody D
Skeptic Friend
Thailand
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Posted - 12/17/2003 : 18:24:51 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
One of the things that I've heard is sometimes effective either in "tough" cases or in cases in which private-practice doctors are in short supply is the "teaching hospital."
UCLA == SUCKS
Because of their treatment,it kind of made me 'stand offish' to try that again but have considered USC, since I'm in a medical expieriment there now.
Cost is a factor and, at least in the past from my expierence, teaching hospitals were not any less expensive than regular places.
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Not only is their job to teach up-and-coming doctors the right way to diagnose and treat patients, but they also tend to be very interested (because of the teaching potential) in "difficult" cases, where the diagnosis is borderline. They also often have "discount" rates (or even free clinics) through subsidies, as I understand things. I've had no direct experience in this, but have heard from people who swear by the teaching hospitals they've found. I'd be interested in finding out how true this really is, or if the folks I've heard from have just been extremely lucky.
I think each person is different, as I said it wasn't my experience. I do think the right place can help with the right situation.
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What constitutes a "good doctor" is always an interesting subject, however, even if only tangetially related to your question. After all, the "doctor as god" problem has been around for a long time,
I've never thought of doctors as gods, probably because I come from a family of nurses, haha. Maybe I also have a higher standard in what I want in a doctor because of that too. One should always ask questions before starting to go to a doctor. I don't think many people, as you said, in the past, did that.
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filthy said:
In these days of exotic specialization, exactly which bone sawyer to go to all depends upon what ails you.
That's exactly what my lung doctor said. But it's not always cut and dry. If you have a cough do you go to an ENT or a Pulminary, and then it could be for some other reason, which of course the doctor you go to will send you to another but if you knew in the 1st place then you could have gone there but how do you know? I read, study but I don't/can't know it all, that's what I pay the doctors to do. Having to go from one to another because you don't know or aren't sure is a waste of time and money. Would be nice if there were still GP's that one can go to who knows your history then be refured to the right speicalist.
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For this last, don't use a book from a public urinal 'phone booth. Half the pages will be missing and the remainder, you might not want to handle.
Oh YUK, you are so right. I never touch door handles or anything. Aren't people just filthy, whoops sorry Filthy....more dirty now days? Gum and spit, etc. all over the place. What is wrong with people? IMO, it's just another sign of society going back to the 'Dark Ages'
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PruplePanther
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 01/07/2004 : 11:13:52 [Permalink]
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