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good doctors

anonymous
anonymous
edited November -1 in Park Slope
My son recently moved to Park Slope and is looking for a good GP or internist in the area; preferably a male.
Could also be in lower Manhattan.
Could anyone recommend a great doctor?????
Has anyone tried the Integrative Medical practice at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan???

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  • veggiequeen
    veggiequeen
    If you perform a search on 'doctor' you'll find a bunch of stuff. I go to a female so I can't make any recommendations.
  • mypasswordwontwork
    mypasswordwontwork
    Please tell me about this Integrative MEdical practice at Beth Israel
  • cabaki
    cabaki
    I have a great doctor my family has been using for over 15 years, except that he works at NY Presbyterian on 70th and York.

    I know its a trek, but a good family doctor is usually worth a trek and more.....let me know if you want his info.
  • mypasswordwontwork
    mypasswordwontwork
    Every family practice I've ever seen in New York has been useless to some degree or other. When I complained of hypoglemic crashes, 15 lb weight loss in one month, racing heartbeat and dramatic hair loss the latest family practice doc said, "you worry too much. You've brought all this on by worrying too much. Just relax, stop worrying and everything will correct itself." When I asked him whether he could do some bloodwork, he said, "stop worrying about that, all in due course." he told me to go home and relax and that things would surely resolve themselves.

    2 days later, at great personal expense, I referred myself to a specialist and learnt that I was severely hyperthyroid. My family practice doc had refused to refer me to a specialist, saying all my health probs were "in my head" and that meant I had to pay $1000 out of pocket to get a sane doctor to diagnose me.
  • cabaki
    cabaki
    mypasswordwontwork wrote: Every family practice I've ever seen in New York has been useless to some degree or other. When I complained of hypoglemic crashes, 15 lb weight loss in one month, racing heartbeat and dramatic hair loss the latest family practice doc said, "you worry too much. You've brought all this on by worrying too much. Just relax, stop worrying and everything will correct itself." When I asked him whether he could do some bloodwork, he said, "stop worrying about that, all in due course." he told me to go home and relax and that things would surely resolve themselves.

    2 days later, at great personal expense, I referred myself to a specialist and learnt that I was severely hyperthyroid. My family practice doc had refused to refer me to a specialist, saying all my health probs were "in my head" and that meant I had to pay $1000 out of pocket to get a sane doctor to diagnose me.
    I wasnt referrering to a private-practice family doctor like the one you've been to - my "family doctor" is a specialist in internal medicine at one of the city's top hospitals (NY Presbyterian), is board certified, and has been "my familys" doctor for more than 15 years.

    It seems silly to characterize every private-practice family doctor as useless becauuse you had a lously one at some point in the past. There are good doctors and back doctors out there, its not fair to judge based on what type of practice one is in. A referral is the way to go.

    Tbruno - PM me if you still want my doctors information (he takes all kinds of health insurance.)
  • mypasswordwontwork
    mypasswordwontwork
    Cabaki wrote: [quote=mypasswordwontwork]Every family practice I've ever seen in New York has been useless to some degree or other. When I complained of hypoglemic crashes, 15 lb weight loss in one month, racing heartbeat and dramatic hair loss the latest family practice doc said, "you worry too much. You've brought all this on by worrying too much. Just relax, stop worrying and everything will correct itself." When I asked him whether he could do some bloodwork, he said, "stop worrying about that, all in due course." he told me to go home and relax and that things would surely resolve themselves.

    2 days later, at great personal expense, I referred myself to a specialist and learnt that I was severely hyperthyroid. My family practice doc had refused to refer me to a specialist, saying all my health probs were "in my head" and that meant I had to pay $1000 out of pocket to get a sane doctor to diagnose me.
    .

    It seems silly to characterize every private-practice family doctor as useless becauuse you had a lously one at some point in the past.

    Actually, EVERY experience I have had with a family doctor so far has been lousy. I'm talking about 6 or more doctors in total, all of them not worth their weight in dogshit.
  • anonymous
    anonymous
    mypasswordwontwork,

    go to www.healthandhealingny.org
  • mypasswordwontwork
    mypasswordwontwork
    Thanks tbruno
  • steve
    steve
    mypasswordwontwork wrote: [quote=Cabaki][quote=mypasswordwontwork]Every family practice I've ever seen in New York has been useless to some degree or other. When I complained of hypoglemic crashes, 15 lb weight loss in one month, racing heartbeat and dramatic hair loss the latest family practice doc said, "you worry too much. You've brought all this on by worrying too much. Just relax, stop worrying and everything will correct itself." When I asked him whether he could do some bloodwork, he said, "stop worrying about that, all in due course." he told me to go home and relax and that things would surely resolve themselves.

    2 days later, at great personal expense, I referred myself to a specialist and learnt that I was severely hyperthyroid. My family practice doc had refused to refer me to a specialist, saying all my health probs were "in my head" and that meant I had to pay $1000 out of pocket to get a sane doctor to diagnose me.
    .

    It seems silly to characterize every private-practice family doctor as useless becauuse you had a lously one at some point in the past.

    Actually, EVERY experience I have had with a family doctor so far has been lousy. I'm talking about 6 or more doctors in total, all of them not worth their weight in dogshit.

    It's funny, as someone who thought he might be hyperthyroid (Apparently not) I had a completely different reaction to a somewhat similar experience.

    I had bloodwork done by two different GPs (both internists) in the last few years and the tests came back negative and the 2nd one referred me to an endocrinologist, at my request.

    I also spoke to several doctors I knew socially about this and while they were all helpful, and up front that there was little they could do. I' ve come to understand that sometimes this is the way things go.

    I would recommend both GPs (one of whom is in the slope, the other at Kings Hwy near the F) and the endo who is an NYU Medical Professor to anyone who wants.

    All of that said, I think it's important for people these days to actively become involved in their own diagnosis, and would strongly recommend researching your symptoms online MPWW
  • mypasswordwontwork
    mypasswordwontwork

    Subject: Re: good doctors

    tbruno153 wrote: mypasswordwontwork,

    go to www.healthandhealingny.org
    Holy shit, they actually offer leech therapy!!!!


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  • cabaki
    cabaki
    Gee thanks, I was eating dinner as I checked out that last post
  • femmedada
    femmedada
    There are good internists, dentists, shrinks, etc. in Park Slope. The problem is that they can be hard to find. As you young ones might not know, there was a huge shift in the way insurance companies work that started about 1996. Traditional indeminity plans gave way to managed care companies that kept lists of practitioners willing to see patients at reduced fees. So far, so good. In time, most of the health care folks, if they had ever joined a managed care panel to begin with, removed themselves from these panels because of the mountains of paperwork and because (this is a special concern of ethical shrinks) managed care companies "own" their notes about you and your most private and potentially humiliating stories. The substance of these notes can be made available to employers, lending institutions ad nauseum. What a lot of people don't realize is that if they stop choosing doctors solely on the basis of whether they are on their plans and go to out-of-network providers they will avail themselves to a far greater range of doctors. Another thing that people don't realize is that premanaged care MOST doctors would work with patients around fees. I wish more people would know that it is common for out-of-network physicians to be asked if they can work within a patient's budget. People would have so many more options. Of course, I realize that if one is really, really strapped for cash or on public assistance, one would have to take the chance of being assigned a good doctor who is probably less established and doesn't have the referral base to allow him or her to survive financially unless he or she submits to being on a panel.

    Hope this helps!
  • anotherdayinbkln
    anotherdayinbkln
    i'm looking for an affordable dentist too----if anyone knows of one.
    i'm poor and don't have insurance tho.
  • femmedada
    femmedada
    Have you thought about calling the NYU dental school? Their rates are cheap and the work is state-of-the-art.

    Femme
  • anotherdayinbkln
    anotherdayinbkln
    nyu dental school prices are almost the exact same as the prices i paid in chicago at a real dentist.. plus they are booked up for like 3 weeks
  • steve
    steve
    Very well said femmedada!
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