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Doctor Shopping - Finding the doctor you need

Posted on October 12, 2008

So I'm sitting in Starbucks near my house with my kids when this group of joggers comes in for a post-run sit around. They immediately get off into some discussion about orthopedic sports medicine and their various injuries, complete with editorials about how their doctor is wonderful, how they were misdiagnosed , and wondering how different specialists gave them contradictory advice or opinions.I kind of felt sorry for them. Picking a doctor is tricky, even for doctors. As I work doing surgery at half a dozen hospitals, I have a general idea of the reputation of different surgeons' abilities...

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back pain , kids , liver , sports , sports medicine
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