Re: Uterinefibroids' own Miss Manners (was Screening MD's)

[Guest guest]

Joyce wrote (as a suggestion for asking a doc a ticklish question):

" Dr. _____, I really appreciated the opportunity to speak with you

during the consultation. I came away feeling very confident about

your extensive knowledge of UFE's. There is one thing that I would

appreciate your clearing up for me. I am part of a uterine fibroid

support group and it was suggested that we check on the board

certification of IRs performing our surgeries. Your name, along

with a group of other IRs, was checked for certification. For some

odd reason, your name was not listed as being board certified. Was

this incorrect? "

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Joyce, that is a lovely, assertive yet diplomatic way to approach

this doctor. I hereby appoint you our Miss Manners!

I just love Miss Manners -- she is always polite and appropriate but

NEVER gets pushed around! She would be a great mentor for our

group. (Wonder if she's ever had fibroids? Now how could I

diplomatically ask her that? 'fraid she'd say it's too personal

{sigh})

Leonie

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" The line that divides Good versus Evil runs NOT between nations or

parties or armies... but right down the middle of every human soul. " -

Solzhenitsyn

[Guest guest]

HERE HERE!!!!! I 2nd it!!!!! Your hired!!!!!

Hey everyone, I did use these words about my situation. I'll be

letting you all know what the response was! Jen

> Joyce wrote (as a suggestion for asking a doc a ticklish question):

> " Dr. _____, I really appreciated the opportunity to speak with you

> during the consultation. I came away feeling very confident about

> your extensive knowledge of UFE's. There is one thing that I

would

> appreciate your clearing up for me. I am part of a uterine

fibroid

> support group and it was suggested that we check on the board

> certification of IRs performing our surgeries. Your name, along

> with a group of other IRs, was checked for certification. For

some

> odd reason, your name was not listed as being board certified.

Was

> this incorrect? "

> ********

> Joyce, that is a lovely, assertive yet diplomatic way to approach

> this doctor. I hereby appoint you our Miss Manners!

>

[Guest guest]

Hello folks, just an update. I got a response from my IR on this

polite question about his certification. He said he has been

certified since 1990 and that my information was wrong. He also has

other certifications on top of it!!! . By the way, I got my

information from www.healthgrades.com so don't use this site to

check up on your docs. /There data base is screwed up.

I hope my doc wasn't pissed off at me and when he wrote me back, I

felt like a jerk for questioning him. Miss Manners, got any

suggestions? Anyway, it worked, I got my answeres and I'm not

stopping to look back anymore. Jen

[Guest guest]

> Hello folks, just an update. I got a response from my IR on this

> polite question about his certification. He said he has been

> certified since 1990 and that my information was wrong. He also has

> other certifications on top of it!!! . By the way, I got my

> information from www.healthgrades.com so don't use this site to

> check up on your docs. /There data base is screwed up.

>

> I hope my doc wasn't pissed off at me and when he wrote me back, I

> felt like a jerk for questioning him. Miss Manners, got any

> suggestions? Anyway, it worked, I got my answeres and I'm not

> stopping to look back anymore. Jen

Um, did he indicate a board certification in Diagnostic Radiology

AND/OR Vascular and Interventional Radiology. Were you also able to

confirm this by checking the ABMS website? The healthgrades.com site

is an independent site....but the ABMS is the certifying body and

should be the definitive answer.

Sorry for being such a stickler on this issue....but there have been a

few IRs in the past who have been known for quoting high numbers of

prior " procedures " which were, in fact, primarily NOT UFE procedures

at all! Further, these are two, very different, board certifications.

An IR performing UFE should be board certified in Vascular and

Interventional Radiology in addition to board certification in Radiology.

No doc should be pissed off by this question...and if they are...then

YOU have to question " why? " Never feel like a jerk for doing due

diligence on checking out your docs. NEVER! After all, it's YOUR

body and you are the one who will pay the consequences of sub-standard

care -- not the doc.

Carla Dionne