Everybody knows your health is the most important thing. How to stay healthy is more challenging. Finding the right provider to give you advice and keep you on the path of health is a big part of that. This series of posts will give you some tips to help you find someone you can trust to be your partner in getting and keeping your best health.
Step II. Know what you value and write it down
Have you ever wondered why your experience with a particular provider felt awful. Or why someone gave you a bad ‘vibe’? Maybe they were missing a key trait that you value but have never said out loud to yourself. As you look for Dr. Right, ask yourself about factors that are important to you from educational level to shared ethnicity or country of origin. Here are a few more for you to consider.
- Affiliated institutions
- On time schedule
- Advocacy
- Politics
- Religion
- Approach–surgical, medical, latest technology, complementary medicine
- Approach–hands off, directive, quick referral
- Community involvement