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Local physicians name their picks for the state’s best specialists.
Photography by Patrick O'Connor
If you or a member of your family had a medical problem, who would you select as the best specialist?” This is the very important question we asked 2,500 of the state’s licensed physicians in our annual top doctors survey.
Those polled were eager to give us their answers, and while there are many excellent physicians who aren’t on this list, these are the names that appeared most frequently in our survey: 152 of the state’s most dedicated doctors.
In addition to our list of Rhode Island’s top doctors, in this issue we also focus on two fascinating new trends in medicine.
“In Your Corner” chronicles the round-the-clock medical care that doctors provide to seriously ill patients once they’ve been admitted to a hospital. If you’re a patient in one of Rhode Island’s twelve acute-care hospitals, these are the people you want as your advocates.
In “The Doctor Is Always In,” we take a look at a small but growing community of primary care doctors who are following the Ideal Medical Practice model. This streamlined approach to medicine allows physicians to reduce their overhead and rely more on technology to shoulder administrative burdens, so they can spend more time with their patients.
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One of your "top pediatricians" missed a congenital condition that should have been identified at birth in my daughter. Please don't publish articles like these. They misinform the public by creating a profile in which some doctors are "better" than others. Clearly for us, one of your top pediatricians caused us a great deal of agony and our daughter lost precious rehab time in her early infancy. This physician failed us and should not be labeled a top doc!!
What is truly unfortunate is that there are morons who believe they have been "failed" by doctors who aren't perfect, or who believe that these doctors "cause" the agony which comes from having a child with a congenital condition. Sounds like you're looking for someone to blame. Get over yourself--your own doctor should drop you from his or her practice before you blame him for missing your low IQ and sue him for college tuition.
WOW for starters let's just point out how much of a moron you can be to forget that everyone is entitled to their own opinion on every topic there is. For you to degrade someone because you disagree with what they have said proves that you yourself are a substandard individual with no self esteem to be that threatened by someone's opinion that you have to try to make them feel bad about themselves for having shared it. Why don't you try "getting over yourself" and your ignorant ways. The doctor's misdiagnosis could have allowed the condition to worsen making rehab more difficult which could have caused the parents of the baby additional agony.
To clarify... Yes it was congenital, missed for 5 whole months, and after discussing something just didnt look right, we were told everything looked normal. Sought out a specialist on our own and our "everything looks normal" child needed immediate surgery and has required intensive therapy since. She would be blind if we had done nothing.
I thank God everyday that we dismissed that pediatricians advice. I don't blame him for the condition. I blame him for the precious time she lost, she can't get back, it's gone and we will never know what the outcome may have been if her condition was detected at birth.
I agree that doctors make mistakes..... My point is that they should not be graded, ranked, or put up on a pedestal. My point exactly is that they make mistakes. Don't glorify them, they are humans, not super heroes. Articles such as this do so. I hope you can find comfort at some point with the guilt you clearly harbor in your strong words.
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That's what specialists are for...and second opinions. Not every pediatrician is an expert in every single possible medical condition, nor should they be expected to be. Diagnoses are missed every single day by good doctors. Of course doctors should be ranked and graded on lists like this. You can spend the rest of your life hating that doctor for missing a diagnosis for five months, or you can accept the fact that he wasn't a specialist or an expert in the condition your daughter has.
For every story like yours, perhaps there are others for whom that pediatrician has been a lifesaver and a bringer of happiness. Let go of your animosity and move on with your life and your precious daughter. She deserves more than to have you hating on one guy for missing something that he probably was not a specialist in.