Would really love to find a very knowledgebale doctor, not sure about mine yet

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Permalink Reply by Richard A. "Red" Lawhern on November 28, 2011 at 9:08am

I just ran a search on behalf of my wife of 32 years.  There are several "Best Doctors in America" sites.  One that I found useful was as follows. 

"Best Doctors Inc., a Boston-based company that rates physicians, takes a direct approach in determining the best doctors: It asks those in practice to whom they would turn if they or members of their families needed a specialist. More than 30,000 doctors nationwide submit evaluations of practitioners in 43 fields. Best Doctors then verifies licenses and board certifications and checks state medical boards for disciplinary actions. Best Doctors also asks doctors who are nominated more detailed questions about their practices, experience and research. About 4% of North Carolina's 16,000 licensed physicians make the list. An expanded list, including specialties not included here because of space constraints, can be found on our Web site,

www.businessnc.com."

For other and similar peer review type doctor searches try any of the pages in the following resource:

www.bestdoctors.com/+%22Best+Doctors+Inc%22&tbo=1&sa=X&..." target="_blank">http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Top+100+doctors%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=b8i&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=related:www.bestdoctors.com/+%22Best+Doctors+Inc%22&tbo=1&sa=X&...

 

(yeah, I know the URL is lengthy!)

 

Then take a look at the section on "finding a doctor" in our Face Pain Info pages. 

 

Regards and best,

   Red

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Permalink Reply by Kc Dancer Kc on November 30, 2011 at 11:02pm

If I could fly anywhere, and I did, it would be straight to Trenton Michigan.-Dr. Kenneth Casey

 

After a yearrrrrr of research on here I picked him - He's got one of the hightest track record and I am pain free.

 

Kimberly in KC

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Permalink Reply by John Mcnally on February 7, 2012 at 4:17pm

I live in the Peoria, Illinois area and there are three hospitals here. I was fortunate enough to have a family friend that is a retired MD. He recommended a neurosurgeon to me, Dr. Patrick T. Tracy. He is associated with the Illinois Neurological Institute, which is  part of St. Francis Hospital, OSF.  My experience with them was very positive and I feel that I received excellent care.

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Permalink Reply by Vicky Lundgren on February 7, 2012 at 4:33pm

To John, how long have you had TN? You are very lucky to have found one, I tried one at the Illinois Neurological in Rockford and they little knowledge of this. Please let me know more as I am heading into Chicago the end of this month to see Dr Anderson.

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Permalink Reply by John Mcnally on February 7, 2012 at 4:56pm

Vicky, call Dr. Tracy at 309 676-0766. He is an excellent person, high success rate with surgeries. I first knew I had TN last summer.

Vicky Lundgren said:

To John, how long have you had TN? You are very lucky to have found one, I tried one at the Illinois Neurological in Rockford and they little knowledge of this. Please let me know more as I am heading into Chicago the end of this month to see Dr Anderson.

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Permalink Reply by Richard A. "Red" Lawhern on February 7, 2012 at 7:29pm

There are also several doctors listed in Illinois who received patient recommendations here at Living With TN.  See the "find a doctor" sub-tab in our "face pain info" on the site menu above.

Regards, Red

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