how to communicate clearly with an MD?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(zapranoth @ Mar 26 2007, 01:37 AM) [snapback]412177[/snapback]</div>

long story. i'd rather forget it ever happened.

thank you again, seth, for your contributions. i have put in a formal "dispute" on the bill, so hopefully they'll hold off on sending us to collections. i told the billing clerk that until we determine whether the procedure was correct or not, we were not going to pay for anything. she said that if it was determined that the wrong thing was done, they'd be happy to cancel the bill, but the call needed to be made by the doctor.

and now we wait, for the doctor. DH calls there twice a week and leaves messages with them.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(fshagan @ Mar 26 2007, 02:07 AM) [snapback]412185[/snapback]</div>

ahh yes. one of the country's best university hospitals is 3 miles from our home. our original orthopedist is affiliated with that very health system. in fact, finding a non-duke medical facility in this town is extremely difficult. unfortunately, we have reached a point where we cannot afford to pay hospital rates (20%). since we've gotten opinions from 2 separate (prominent) surgeons indicating they can't do anything for us, we really don't expect to hear differently from a third. finances are becoming critical, we've already spent 5 figures on this with mostly counterproductive results.

oh i forget how it goes for him... the problem is that epidural steroid injections, which should help by numbing the nerve root, stopped working 3 weeks after the first one. we've pretty much moved away from the spinal structure as causing the problem.

do you get copies of your films? one thing we've done is collect a copy of EVERYTHING as we go along for our personal records.

thanks. i will check that out.