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From: liz@unirot.UUCP (Mamaliz )
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: how do you choose a doctor?
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Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 07:26:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 28 07:26:32 1986
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After years of parents, college clinics, Bellevue clinics, Mass
General clinics and (recently) an HMO style clinic -- I am finally
getting on Blue Cross.  So, for the first time, the choice of doctors
is up to me.  

My mother, among other people, keeps telling me that any *GOOD*
doctor in this area would be practicing in NYC, but I hate the idea
of commuting 45 minutes for regular medical care.  Is it possible to
get a good doctor in a small town?

Doctors I KNOW I need:

An orthopedist (my search for a decent knee man is what led me to
leave the clinics).
A pain doctor (my surgeon has suggested we use nerve blocks instead
of more surgery, which would probably leave me crippled).
A diet doctor of some sort (I am intensly hypoglycemic...somewhat
like the person who posted about a month ago).
An internist.
A gyn.

How do I go about finding good specimens of such?

Thanks 
liz
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