How to find the BEST Doctor for your pain management

I have always loved hearing, "you have got to go to my Doctor....he/she's the BEST."




I mean really what does best mean?  If you look in the dictionary best is defined as:

1. of the highest quality, excellence, or standing: the best work; the best students.
2. most advantageous, suitable, or desirable: the best way.
3. largest; most: the best part of a day.
4. most excellently or suitably; with most advantage or success: an opera role that best suits her voice.
5. in or to the highest degree; most fully (usually used in combination): best-suited; best-known; best-loved.

So let's look "of the highest quality."  By who's definition is quality determined?  Some think that quality cheese can be purchased in a package while others have specialty cheese shipped to them.

Success?  Does that define the best?  Let's look at it this way......professional sports players; yes they may be successful but are they the best?  

I like #5:  Best-suited.  Let's be honest what works for one will not always work for another.  BOTH personalities comes into play and that, will sometimes, not work with the "best" Doctor out there.  

I've written about how to find the "best" Doctor but I'm going to narrow it down to find the best Doctor for YOU!!  

It is very important that your Orthopedic Surgeon (pain management Doctor) is the best for YOU!

How do you find a good Orthopedic Surgeon:

1. I've said this before:  Talk to your primary Doctor.  Your Primary KNOWS you and your personality.  
2. Talk to your friends but remember the "best" Doctor for them may not be the best for you.  
3. Check them out! The American Medical Association and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons both have databases that can be accessed online. 
4. Ask questions.  Some would say to ask about credentials and experience.  I'm going to say you can get this online and, honestly, in an interview we all put our best foot forward, right?  Ask the questions that will relate on whether this Doctor is the best for you! I joke about a lot of things so one of my questions is always, "listen, if I jokingly make a comment are you going to rush to a decision without "listening" to the context of the comment?"  It is VERY important that your Doctor know WHO you are not just what your injury is.
5. Trust your gut.  If something doesn't "feel" right....move on.  You don't want a Doctor that you don't trust and a Doctor doesn't want a patient that doesn't trust them.
6. When you find the best Doctor for you....stick with them.  Moving around does not help YOU!  Progress takes time and if you have to keep "starting over" than you will never progress.  

How do you pick your Doctor?






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Dr. Jere Sutton of the Colorado Car Wreck is a Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon