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(Message started by: Grandma_Dizzie on Oct 6^th, 2006, 4:32pm)

Title: Doctors by State
Post by Grandma_Dizzie on Oct 6^th, 2006, 4:32pm

Somewhere on this website, there used to be a list of doctors by state who understood about clusters. We just moved to Montana, and need to get a new neurologist, and I can't find the list!
Can someone tell me where the list is - or recommend a doctor in the Missoula Montana area?
Thanks!!!
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Title: Re: Doctors by State
Post by unsolved1 on Oct 6^th, 2006, 5:00pm

http://www.ouch-us.org/chgeneral/doctors.htm

Goodluck

UNsolved

Title: Re: Doctors by State
Post by Grandma_Dizzie on Oct 7^th, 2006, 1:03am

Thanks!!!
God bless you!! :)

Title: Re: Doctors by State
Post by Bob_Johnson on Oct 7^th, 2006, 8:53am

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/physicians/ 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.