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(Message started by: birdman on Oct 29^th, 2007, 10:43am)

Title: Hey New York, where is the best help?
Post by birdman on Oct 29^th, 2007, 10:43am

Looking for advice on the best place to go for help in New York. I have gone to a neuro and am happy, but I just feel I need more. A CH specialist or pain management center. Let me know what your feelings are NY.
Tim

Title: Re: Hey New York, where is the best help?
Post by jackieg on Oct 29^th, 2007, 11:16am

Tim, I wrote to you on the DEPRESSION topic. Check it out. Try the Headache Institute at St Lukes. Dr. Larry Newman is the best and known nation wide, so they say. They try. I check in but refuse the medicine. O2 only nowadays. See why under DEPRESSION topic.
I am heading there today.

Title: Re: Hey New York, where is the best help?
Post by birdman on Oct 29^th, 2007, 12:16pm

I will have to look into it. Thanks a mil!

Title: Re: Hey New York, where is the best help?
Post by Bob_Johnson on Oct 29^th, 2007, 12:58pm

1. Search the OUCH site (button on left) for a list of recommended M.D.s.

2. Yellow Pages phone book: look for "Headache Clinics" in the M.D. section and look under "neurologist" where some docs will list speciality areas of practice.

3. Call your hospital/medical center. They often have an office to assist in finding a physician. You may have to ask for the social worker/patient advocate.

4. http://www.achenet.org On-line screen to find a physician.

5. http://www.headaches.org/consumer/index.html Call 1-800-643-5552; they will send a list of M.D.s for your state.I suggest using this source for several reasons: first, we have read several messages from people who, even seeing neurologists, are unhappy with the quality of care and ATTITUDES they have encountered; second, the clinical director of the Jefferson (Philadelphia) Headache Clinic said, in late 1999, that upwards of 40%+ of U.S. doctors have poor training in treating headache and/or hold attitudes about headache ("hysterical female disorder") which block them from sympathetic and effective work with the patient; third, it's necessary to find a doctor who has experience, skill, and a set of attitudes which give hope of success. This is the best method I know of to find such a physician.