Contact your state medical board to make sure that a prospective provider has a license in good standing and doesn’t have formal disciplinary actions against him or her. You may also be able to search pending and recent litigation to see if he or she is the subject of multiple lawsuits. Don’t be afraid to ask around.
Do you have a writing hobby? If you do, is your writing result is only known by yourself? Or even, is it nearly forgotten? Why don’t you try to monetize your writing hobby? The ways are not as hard as you might ever imagine. Here are they:
Check with your current doctors about the hospitals they’re affiliated with, and tell them which one you prefer. Too much time and money is wasted when selected providers are affiliated with different medical systems.
If you need complicated brain surgery to treat a brain aneurysm, you should be asking the newly introduced neurosurgeon, “Do you think you can help me?” not “Do you have an East End office?” When your life is on the line, you want a doctor with top-notch skills and experience who will provide the best possible care.
We call these qualities the three As: ability, affability, and availability. Because it’s difficult for us to assess the ability or affability of a doctor we’ve never met, most of us choose our physicians by availability.
Sometimes we’re not going to the right place because our particular problems aren’t that provider’s specialty. Ask questions. Make sure this provider has experience treating your specific condition. The first thing you want to know when you see a new physician is something often taken for granted: Will this physician be good for what you need? How do you know? How do you define “good”?
Request reading material or resources to better understand your disease so that you can ask the right questions of your health care providers. Diseases found early and treated early have the best chance for cure.
