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The best way I know to find a physician in a city to which I have 
 moved is to ask my current physician for a referral to someone there.


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roger@SpeedNet.com wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have any good ideas on the best method to
> find a good Family physician or internal medicine
> doctor, if you are new to a city?  Like to find someone who is
> thorough and more interested in successfully treating his
> patients, than in judging the size of their bank
> account.
> 
> Like to find someone who is good with diagnosis
> and takes the time to do a complete workup on
> physicals. Someone who has the old school values
> about the doctor/patient relationship.
> 
> The business referral agencies in the phone book seem to
> be most only interested in their profits; the gov't medical
> boards generally recommend losers-i.e.-those who can't get
> patients.
> 
> So, if your new to a city, what's the best way to know?
> 
Perhaps a connection exists between a doctor's income and their skill as
physician. How can you tell a doctor's income? Marcus Welby died a long
time ago and he was a TV doctor. You try out different doctors until you 
find one who balances an acceptable bedside manner with a high level of
skill.

On Sat, 3 May 1997 00:35:20 GMT, H. David Bashkin  said.....
>
>roger@SpeedNet.com wrote:
>> 
>> Does anyone have any good ideas on the best method to
>> find a good Family physician or internal medicine
>> doctor, if you are new to a city?  Like to find someone who is
>> thorough and more interested in successfully treating his
>> patients, than in judging the size of their bank
>> account.
>> 
>> Like to find someone who is good with diagnosis
>> and takes the time to do a complete workup on
>> physicals. Someone who has the old school values
>> about the doctor/patient relationship.
>> 
>> The business referral agencies in the phone book seem to
>> be most only interested in their profits; the gov't medical
>> boards generally recommend losers-i.e.-those who can't get
>> patients.
>> 
>> So, if your new to a city, what's the best way to know?
>> 
>Perhaps a connection exists between a doctor's income and their skill as
>physician. How can you tell a doctor's income? Marcus Welby died a long
>time ago and he was a TV doctor. You try out different doctors until you 
>find one who balances an acceptable bedside manner with a high level of
>skill.


Speak with friends/neighbors. Try to talk with some nurses - they know the 
REAL story, and most will talk about it away from work (they may not give the 
the actual dirt, but if a nurse says she wouldn't recommend that you see a 
particular doctor, you can bet she has good reason). Become a volunteer at a 
local hospital. Visit some support groups for ill people. 

Something I did once when I arrived in a new town was to call several 
physicians and state that I was going to use them as my physician if they were 
accepting new patients. However, I stated that I had a problem. I am applying 
for life insurance and must have a physical by a different physician. Who do 
you recommend?  I obtained about five recommendations, and four of them were 
to the same doctor. Of course he became my phsician and was excellent.

d.

|> So, if your new to a city, what's the best way to know?

H. David Bashkin <coreky@cybernex.net> wrote:
|Perhaps a connection exists between a doctor's income and their skill as
|physician. How can you tell a doctor's income? Marcus Welby died a long
|time ago and he was a TV doctor. You try out different doctors until you 
|find one who balances an acceptable bedside manner with a high level of
|skill.

At $40 for 10 minutes?  Not bloody likely!  I have heard that wandering
the halls of a hospital and asking the nurses who's good and who's not is
a useful idea.  Never tried it, myself. 

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   begin slitting throats."     -- H.L. Mencken

Why not ask your doctor who was treating you before you moved?

	He would be the best to know what you need.  It will be an 
awfully good test of his competence to see if he will take the time to 
find you good care in another city.


-- 
Lloyd Colston	Success comes in cans, not can'ts
Pryor, OK USA	 	social worker, writer, editor
Internet business group: http://www.isbc.com
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