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<blockquote data-quote="Josie" data-source="post: 410727" data-attributes="member: 1792"><p>As you know, we have a similar situation going on in our house. We have been to countless doctors over the last 7 years. With only one exception, I have found that the ones who are the most help do not take insurance. I especially like the ones that have an MD or DO, but also do alternative health care. If they don't take insurance, they can spend more time listening to the patient. If they are open to alternative treatment, but can and do write prescriptions, you hopefully get the best of both. If they do alternative medicine as well, you know that they go beyond the checklist style diagnosing that seems so common now.</p><p></p><p>For the most part, our insurance still pays for the treatment or testing, even if the prescribing doctor is not on the plan. Sometimes, I have had to ask her PCP to order the test to get it covered. It was an alternative doctor like this that ordered an MRI for my daughter's chronic, disabling headache after I had taken her to several neurologists that didn't see the need for an MRI. For the MRI, I did have to get her PCP to order it. Maybe because another doctor was involved, she felt like she should do it when she had not come up with that on her own.</p><p></p><p>We recently switched to yet another doctor, really a nurse practioner, and my daughter's headache is actually gone some of the time for the first time in over 3 years. These doctors can help but it isn't always easy finding the right one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Josie, post: 410727, member: 1792"] As you know, we have a similar situation going on in our house. We have been to countless doctors over the last 7 years. With only one exception, I have found that the ones who are the most help do not take insurance. I especially like the ones that have an MD or DO, but also do alternative health care. If they don't take insurance, they can spend more time listening to the patient. If they are open to alternative treatment, but can and do write prescriptions, you hopefully get the best of both. If they do alternative medicine as well, you know that they go beyond the checklist style diagnosing that seems so common now. For the most part, our insurance still pays for the treatment or testing, even if the prescribing doctor is not on the plan. Sometimes, I have had to ask her PCP to order the test to get it covered. It was an alternative doctor like this that ordered an MRI for my daughter's chronic, disabling headache after I had taken her to several neurologists that didn't see the need for an MRI. For the MRI, I did have to get her PCP to order it. Maybe because another doctor was involved, she felt like she should do it when she had not come up with that on her own. We recently switched to yet another doctor, really a nurse practioner, and my daughter's headache is actually gone some of the time for the first time in over 3 years. These doctors can help but it isn't always easy finding the right one. [/QUOTE]
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