Originally Posted by catra121

I know...she's been so great. I almost had a heart attack back in November when I called on a Monday to schedule an appointment with her and the receptionist told me, "Wednesday is her last day...we can get you in tomorrow." It was one of those moments where I felt someone must be looking out for me because I just called on a whim because I had a few minutes to spare...I had planned on calling Wednesday. So I spent all day Monday completely stressed out...worried she was moving out of state or something. Thankfully...no...she was just moving to a different practice because the one she was in (while great) had just been bought by a large medical group that was going to impose a bunch of restrictions on the amount of time they could spend with patients and a lot of other stuff like that and she felt moving to an independent group would be better for her and her patients. She's very frank about stuff like that.

I am so so so lucky to have found her. She's a general practitioner, is not an RSD specialist, but I have gotten better care with her than any other doctor since I got RSD. My lawyer kept giving me a hard time (my RSD is the result of a work injury) insisting that I needed to get to a board certified pain management doctor (which work comp wasn't approving anyway...long complicated story) but this was at a point where my health was finally improving and I was finally getting better instead of getting worse and I just told him that I needed to do what was best for my health which was to continue treating with my current doctor. I told him that if work comp wanted me to see a pain management doctor then I would (assuming I didn't have to pay for it) but that I would not stop treating with my current doctor and mess up a treatment plan that was working. He may think I am crazy but I decided to put my health first and I am so very thankful I did.