Dr. Mike’s Wellness Advice: How to Select a Doctor?
Filed Under: Doctors & Drugs
How to select a doctor is something that many people have trouble doing confidently for various reasons. First of all, diplomas and certificates don’t mean much! A track record is much more important. Talk to some of the doctor’s current patients and ask them about their experiences. Go online and look up your doctor; you may find some interesting blogs!
Make sure your doctor takes his/her time to listen to your concerns; and make sure he/she is truly listening! Is your doctor empathetic? Is your doctor truly concerned about your health or is he/she treating you like the next patient in-line, only wondering how much your insurance will pay?
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You need a doctor that is progressive and offers alternatives to drugs. Your doctor should be willing to work with you in eliminating some of the drugs you are currently taking by substituting those drugs with effective, natural medicines. A simple example is drugs to lower cholesterol. These drugs are totally unnecessary when a healthy nutrition plan and some quality supplements (fish oil, red yeast rice, niacin etc.) are introduced. Do they really work? Yes, they do! Want proof? Just have your cholesterol tested, put yourself on the supplements and re-test your cholesterol 3 months later. The results won’t lie! Maybe your doctor is not educated or experienced enough to help you, and that’s ok as long as he/she is willing to cooperate with a local health care professional who is knowledgeable about health and wellness such as another MD or DO, naturopathic physician, acupuncture physician, doctor of oriental medicine etc.
Yours in Optimal Health,
Dr. Mike
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Dr. Mike’s Wellness Advice: Doctor’s Advice?
Filed Under: Doctors & Drugs
Your doctor’s advice at times is not the best information to heed. When your doctor doesn’t take the time to listen to you and/or examine you in detail, the likelihood that his/her diagnosis or assessment is incorrect is pretty high!
This means that your doctor really doesn’t know what’s ‘wrong’ with you, and he/she really doesn’t care much either because if he/she did, he/she would take the time and effort to find out! Agreed?
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When the assessment is wrong, the prescription or medication is wrong too! Did you ever take a medication that didn’t work at all? I’m sure! How can it work when it’s the wrong one? These medical errors can cause serious adverse reactions and health hazards! Also, does your physician tell you what your drug is for? What its side-effects are? What dose you should take?
Incorrect assessments also lead to expensive and unnecessary diagnostic tests, referrals to other ‘specialists’ and hospitalizations and surgeries. Why do you think more than 50% of back surgeries fail? Because whatever the surgeon ‘fixed’ wasn’t the cause of the pain in the first place! Does that make sense? Even if the MRI shows a bulging disc, that doesn’t mean that this is the cause of your back pain! They relied on tests (which they know are often false positive) and rushed into an unnecessary procedure that ultimately failed AND easily could be prevented if only enough time was taken to make a correct assessment!
Yours in Optimal Health,
Dr. Mike
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