{"id":254,"date":"2012-12-10T08:43:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T15:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debbiepetrina.authorsxpress.com\/?p=254"},"modified":"2012-12-10T08:43:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T15:43:01","slug":"office-visits-with-your-neurologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Office Visits with your Neurologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cGood Advice for Being Prepared\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>December 10, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Not having enough time with your neurologist or feeling that you didn\u2019t get your questions answered is a common complaint by patients today. Often we blame the doctor and his\/her office but there is the other side of the story\u2014the doctor\u2019s!<\/p>\n<p><em>Be Prepared!: How to make the most of office time with your neurologist\u2026<\/em> is an article worth reading. Written by Avitzur, Orly M.D., M.B.A., it was printed in the current issue of <em>Neurology Now<\/em>\u2014the American Academy of Neurologists Magazine for Patients and Caregivers. \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/QSp1uH\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/QSp1uH<span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"color: #333333\">\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019m<\/span><\/a> taking the liberty of sharing this via by blog, since you are my friends I am given the option by them to share this with my friends :).<\/p>\n<p>Finding a neurologist that you are comfortable with, one having high credentials\/reviews, and one that has a specialty in your particular chronic condition is essential. After you read this article, ask yourself: do you do this before your visit, and does the doctor respond in the way this doctor suggests?<\/p>\n<p>For those of you not familiar with the magazine <em>Neurology Now,<\/em> you take a look at it online and subscribe to it for free. While it addresses many neurological disorders, I have found useful information relating to multiple sclerosis for myself. And other things like Parkinson\u2019s disease that my friends have\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.DebbieMS.com\">www.DebbieMS.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGood Advice for Being Prepared\u201d December 10, 2012 Not having enough time with your neurologist or feeling that you didn\u2019t get your questions answered is a common complaint by patients today. Often we blame the doctor and his\/her office but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/?p=254\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,30],"tags":[99,123,261,307,325,336],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctors","category-education","category-multiple-sclerosis","tag-chronic-illnesses","tag-doctor-relationships-neurologists","tag-ms-medications","tag-multiple-sclerosis","tag-multiple-sclerosis-information","tag-neurological-disorders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}