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Post by newyorkbitch on Oct 18, 2013 16:17:27 GMT -5
Take the subway ?
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Post by brooklyngirl on Oct 18, 2013 16:57:43 GMT -5
I don't take the subway
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Post by newyorkbitch on Oct 18, 2013 19:36:08 GMT -5
That might change as you get smaller and smaller!
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Post by brooklyngirl on Oct 18, 2013 23:54:54 GMT -5
Hopefully. I have a history of panic attacks on buses and the subway so I avoid them like the plague, which obviously makes doing things in the city a giant pain in the ass since parking is, well, the worst!
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Post by kennyk on Oct 19, 2013 3:29:45 GMT -5
Wondered about that too.
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Post by nyuboi on Oct 20, 2013 16:12:37 GMT -5
My internist is Nina Priven, the practice is Westside Internal Medicine. Her partner, Iris Sherman is also terrific. She listens, she does what I ask, she talks things through with me. I also have a wonderful hematologist - Dr. Robert Klafter. Both Priven and Klafter are Mt. Sinai affiliated. I can also personally vet for Nina Priven. She is simply wonderful. Appointments are easy to get and she is always on time. I gave her a list of labs I wanted drawn and she didn't even bat an eye. I, too, am a bit biased about where I receive my care. My physicians need to be board certified and affiliated with great hospitals. Given the amazing hospitals in NYC, there's no need to accept anything less. I agree. There's many marketed as "Family Doctors." Not the same as PCPs that are board-certified in internal medicine. Some are also D.O.'s and not true M.D. I am very picky. As I starting research point, there's a book I use for doctors in the NY Metro area. They cant pay to be included in it. Other doctors in the same field have to peer nominate them based on reasons. It's to be used as a general starting point with other things. I travel 20 miles to go to a "top doctor" rather than using the local PCPs in my town. And most of the bariatric surgeons we discuss here are also nominated and ranked in the book. You may want to pick it up at a bookstore or order it online. It's called Castle Connolly Top Doctors, NY Metro Area, 16th Edition. (They re-release lists every year). For people who aren't in the metro NY area, they also have one for the country as a whole. Almost every bariatric surgeon recommended on here is in the book, so it is somewhat consistent. It also does all specialists in each category. It gives you all their information -- where they went to medical school, where they did their residency, what years, hospital affiliations, etc.
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Post by nyuboi on Oct 20, 2013 16:17:09 GMT -5
I would never go to a doctor who is in practice alone. Nor would I go to someone not affiliated with a good teaching hospital. Agree on the hospital. If they have hospital affiliations at bad hospitals, they go right off my list.
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Post by nyuboi on Oct 20, 2013 16:21:15 GMT -5
You can look up Dr. Yaffe and Dr. Ruden's credentials online NYB, as well as their hospital affiliations. You can google it yourself. I've already answered those other questions in an earlier post. Why do you make people's PCP doctors recommendations so unwelcome NYB? DSers have a hard enough time finding good doctors who are concerned with their post-op health, why do you insist on making the sharing of that information more difficult, or even unpleasant? They all jump on me for using George Fielding at NYU, but he's consistently ranked in my book, and has been highly spoken of by every bariatric surgeon I ever met with. Roslin said he would feel comfortable getting surgery personally from Fielding or his wife.
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Post by nyuboi on Oct 20, 2013 16:25:39 GMT -5
I'm not sure where you got that impression that we're talking about surgeons, we're talking about recommendations for WLS friendly PCPs. Seeing as you have no valid input on my Dr recommendations, there's nothing for us to disagree about. However, considering that recommendations of Mt. Sinai and Lennox Hill bd. certified doctors with 30+ years of experience who oversee other MDs, DOs, PAs to handle less critical matters aren't welcome here by you, I don't know what the point of this entire web community is if we can't share info with DSers without receiving flack. A failed web-search on your part doesn't give you airs to play gatekeeper. I'm very disappointed in you NYB, you're making this a hostile place to recommend good doctors who take WLS patient's needs seriously. I just hope that others in the Tri State Area aren't discouraged from recommending those who have provided them with excellent care for fear retaliation from you. If people have had a personal experience with a bad doc and they give the heads up, I appreciate that too. But that's not what you're doing. Say George Fieldings name for maximum "flack." lol. And yes it can be a hostile place if you say the wrong thing. I've been called "crazy" repeatedly. Some people just deliver a message in the wrong way. You can get a point across without scaring someone away from the forum. They could have bashed Fielding and given opinions without calling me an idiot or crazy in the process.
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Post by nyuboi on Oct 20, 2013 16:29:08 GMT -5
While we're on the subject... Anyone know of any good docs in Brooklyn, Staten Island or queens? I'd even do Nassau if you have some there Paul. My PCP is a nimrod and it's just not practical for me to drive into the city during the day with the tolls, traffic and worst of all PARKING Yeah PM me, and you can call me. I can give a list, and from there you have to interview 1 or 2 to see who you are comfortable with.
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Post by nyuboi on Oct 20, 2013 16:32:27 GMT -5
While we're on the subject... Anyone know of any good docs in Brooklyn, Staten Island or queens? I'd even do Nassau if you have some there Paul. My PCP is a nimrod and it's just not practical for me to drive into the city during the day with the tolls, traffic and worst of all PARKING Yeah PM me, and you can call me. I can give a list, and from there you have to interview 1 or 2 to see who you are comfortable with. I used to live in Nassau so I have a high-ranked doctor there in Franklin Square. He's affiliated with Lenox Hill. My friend now uses him, who has the DS. But I can certainly give you many choices...
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Post by brooklyngirl on Oct 20, 2013 16:40:04 GMT -5
Yeah PM me, and you can call me. I can give a list, and from there you have to interview 1 or 2 to see who you are comfortable with. I used to live in Nassau so I have a high-ranked doctor there in Franklin Square. He's affiliated with Lenox Hill. My friend now uses him, who has the DS. But I can certainly give you many choices... Thanks, gonna PM you now
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Post by newyorkbitch on Oct 20, 2013 16:55:18 GMT -5
Castle Connolly is bullshit - it's a) a popularity contest and b) peers "recommend" peers that refer to them, or are within their hospital/provider networks....
There are so many mediocre doctors in that directory, it's frightening.
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Post by nyuboi on Oct 21, 2013 16:47:31 GMT -5
Castle Connolly is bullshit - it's a) a popularity contest and b) peers "recommend" peers that refer to them, or are within their hospital/provider networks.... There are so many mediocre doctors in that directory, it's frightening. Cant go by patient referrals because they have to be the same type of doctor in the same specialty They also research litigation and complaints. I said it was to be used as a STARTING POINT. Then from there you need to ween people out.
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Post by newyorkbitch on Oct 21, 2013 16:50:16 GMT -5
I get recommendations from other doctors I trust. For example, my hematologist recommended my internist. And truth be told - I have a lot of doctors in my family so I have a good network to ask.
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Post by nyuboi on Oct 21, 2013 16:52:15 GMT -5
I get recommendations from other doctors I trust. For example, my hematologist recommended my internist. And truth be told - I have a lot of doctors in my family so I have a good network to ask. That's a good system. Plus you know from family what the doctor is like. Best to trust family and your doctor recommendations.
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Post by newyorkbitch on Oct 21, 2013 17:11:03 GMT -5
I know from reputation within the medical community, too.
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