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need help finding a ra doctor

Posted by: patricia kendall on June 14, 2009 at 1:01AM EST

can anyone tell me what a person is suppose to do when your doctor takes you off the medicine thats has bieng working for you then says they cant help you any more sends you to another doctor who say he cant do nothing for you tears your folder up and says you have to pay for another copy from your old doctor sends you out the door no medicine no help of any kind now my sister is in so much pain and we dont no what to do what happen to the oath doctors are suppose to take to help people so please help if you can in any way there got to be some doctor out there that will see her she has only tried a few medicines and they worked but now they say she can have them and they wont even try anything eles can doctors do that she has medical card so its not like thier not getting paid thank you

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Posted by: Joy125 on June 14, 2009 8:25PM EST

Contact your local Arthritis Foundation office and ask for advice or if they can recommend a rheumatologist near your sister.

See this link to locate an office near you:

http://www.arthritis.org/chaptermap.php

You will have to copy and paste into your browser, or retype it there.

There should be someone be able to help your sister.

Good luck and take care.

Posted by: sue on June 17, 2009 8:30AM EST

If I were you I would report those docs to your insurance company and report them to the medical association. If the meds were working why would they pull your sister off of them? As long as your insurance company was paying for everything there should not have been any reason for her to stop the meds or stop seeing the docs. I would also file a grievance with the state medical association stating that you were being denied medical treatment, from the docs, with meds that were working for you. I would contact either your insurance company or the arthritis association for recommendations for a new rheumatologist. Good luck.