Some Facts About Our Office

In many cases, a questionnaire will be given to you at registration or mailed or faxed before your visit. This gives you an opportunity to think about your symptoms and allows us an accurate way of obtaining your history.   The questionnaires contained within this website may be mailed, faxed, or printed and can be brought into the office upon your next visit.  Every attempt will be made to fully explain to you the nature of your disease, treatment that may be required, both medical and surgical, as well as options that you may have. You might also be given reading material, which may be taken home to further explain your disease, and planned treatment.

With your permission, we welcome family members into the examining rooms and their participation in any patient care discussions. This is important, particularly for those patients whose treatment course will be long and involved. In such cases, interested family members should pick a spokesperson with whom the doctor can discuss the patient's progress and who will pass pertinent information along to other interested parties.

At times, a hearing test or x-ray is needed on your follow-up visit which the nurse may have you obtain prior to seeing the doctor. It may be necessary to perform diagnostic studies. The results of these tests may not be available for several days. In these cases, we will make arrangements for you to call our office to discuss these studies and outline a course of treatment for you.

For patients for whom care was rendered by another physician, it is often important for us to obtain medical records. Thus, we may ask that you sign a release allowing the other physician or hospital to forward these records to us. Similarly, a release form is needed to send copies of our records to other institutions or third parties. Unless you specifically decline, a letter will be sent to your personal or referring physician fully explaining findings and recommendation.

Medical practice is based on human judgment; the doctor is constantly weighting the risks and expected benefits of his treatment against the likely outcome if this treatment were altered. Should you have questions regarding the proposed diagnosis and/or treatment plan, you should tell us immediately. Should you desire a second opinion, we can recommend the names of qualified practitioners who can do this or they may be obtained by calling the Jefferson County Medical Society office.