Support policies that expand access to primary care, train more primary care physicians, and improve reimbursement for primary services that not based on the fee for service model. Most doctors are overburdened with patients and “digging deeper” to find the 1 in 1000 patient with back pain that actually has ankylosing spondylitis takes time with your patient. Time and continuity. Also, Doctors are lied to, manipulated, and “gaslit” by patients frequently (I know this goes against the general “doctors are the monsters” theme of this thread, but it’s true), so finding a doctor that hasn’t become jaded and maintains objectivity is going to be important. There are doctors out there that believe their patients and that still wouldn’t make a diagnosis of ankylosing spondylarthropathy easily. It’s inherently a difficult diagnosis to make.
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Support policies that expand access to primary care, train more primary care physicians, and improve reimbursement for primary services that not based on the fee for service model. Most doctors are overburdened with patients and “digging deeper” to find the 1 in 1000 patient with back pain that actually has ankylosing spondylitis takes time with your patient. Time and continuity. Also, Doctors are lied to, manipulated, and “gaslit” by patients frequently (I know this goes against the general “doctors are the monsters” theme of this thread, but it’s true), so finding a doctor that hasn’t become jaded and maintains objectivity is going to be important. There are doctors out there that believe their patients and that still wouldn’t make a diagnosis of ankylosing spondylarthropathy easily. It’s inherently a difficult diagnosis to make.
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