Good morning Sinovia,
I live in southern NH. I had hip issues and the Doctor in this state that I went to, suggested I probably should think about having hip replacement. So where I'm originally from Massachusetts, I figured I'd get a 2nd opinion. I ended up fortunately being able to switch health care providers on top of that. It took several months, but I lucked out with the coverage I have. I ended up getting Blue Cross of Massachusetts. You can go in to their website, it's for every one actually even before you register with them and on it they have some wonderful tools for investigative work on finding all these Doctors all through out New England. I ended up really liking my Primary Care Physician a lot that I found through their website! His office is SO SO convenient too for me to get to. I just have to go down to Peabody, MA and for me, it's a breeze down I-95. To cut the story short, I DON'T actually need to have hip replacement surgery and it's such a relief with these wonderful Doctor's we're fortunate to have from these great hospitals in New England. So do your homework, go to this website I suggested here and cruise through it to see what I mean about it. You'll see quite a few from the Springfield area, you might be better off finding a good one in your neck of the woods for convience sake any way.
SO Sinovia when I saw your post, I thought that you could use another suggestion. If you want you can go in to the website:
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On it, you can find SO many Doctors right in the Springfield area where you live. I think it would be MUCH more convenient for you to have your health care be at least 20 to 25 miles from your home, don't you? Like Peabody, MA. for me is actually only a 1/2 hour door to door drive for me. I like the fact that mine is affiliated with Boston hospitals too.
There's a wonderful list of Doctors on this site mentioned that are "Recipients of the 2005 Excellence in Primary Care" AND I was happy to see that my Doctor was on it AND Sinovia there's quite a few on this list from your neck of the woods out in Springfield.
Is Northampton, MA near Springfield, by any chance? Because if it is? There's SO many fantastic Doctors that you could go to that are quite good from that list right in that whole area. I saw one on the list from the Mercy Medical Center in Springfield?? Have you heard of that facility before? Well, I even heard about it in New Hampshire on how good it is there! If you PM me, I'll give you the name of the Doctor that's there from that list of recipients of the 2005 Excellence in Primary Care.
You can actually go in to the website yourself too of course. It's truly a wonderful tool to have and to get all the various Doctor's names and where they practice and all that good stuff about them. Also if you needed their business telephone numbers, you can go online now too for that, it's so easy.
TELEPHONE DIRECTORY just type in their various names and their business addressess and telephone #'s will come up for you.
Like I said, just PM me if you want some of the Doctor's names from that list if you can't find it on the website.
Good luck!
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