In Germany, women in their 40s get a check-up every year with a specialist doctor.
More often a patient will just go to whatever hospital or specialist the primary care doctor recommends.
From interviews with a gynecologist, a cardiologist, a rehabilitative medicine specialist, a fertility doctor and an internist, here are the Top 10 things patients do to mess up their own care.
Ask your doctor or rehabilitation specialist if there are any support groups in your area.
"It has a lot of health implications, " says Flavier, a doctor and public health specialist.
That first test should be emailed to the doctor who's the specialist.
After Mr. Davidson was recently referred to a cardiologist because of some incidents of dizziness, his primary-care doctor at his next visit had the specialist's notes and test results available electronically.
Instead, Smarr found a different doctor: Dr. William Sandborn, a specialist in gastrointestinal disorders.
Ms. Sevrence lined up a new primary care doctor and a neurologist, as well as a pain specialist.
To make a diagnosis, your child's doctor might recommend that your child be evaluated by a specialist, such as a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, psychiatric nurse, mental health counselor or behavioral therapist.
When she told her primary-care doctor, he was so surprised she made him call the specialist, she says.
But when a specialist finally offered a formal diagnosis, Bullard was flabbergasted to hear the doctor tell her she could never afford the price tag for "Cadillac" treatment -- tens of thousands of dollars a year.
The emergency doctor told the family one plan, the admitting internist described another, and the consulting specialist a third.
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