May 30, 2001
Into the house comes the annual New York magazine Best Doctors issue, just as the issue proclaiming the best restaurants, the best dry cleaner, or the best pedicure does. While I am loathe to admit that I will slavishly follow their suggestions regarding restaurants, stain removal outlets, or who best to commit the aesthetics of my extremities to, I find their doctor list lacking. None of my favourites are on it. I was curious as to their methodology when choosing these great providers and came across the phrase "a cross-checked compendium of referrals, in which doctors rate their peers." It has a dubious tone. Never ask a doctor about a doctor, ask a patient; or ask a doctor who asks their patients about other doctors. I wanted to share my list because something in me has grown weary of the appropriation and dissemination of "the best of " everything through the normal channels. I wanted to sing the praises of the people who make the vagaries of health tolerable to me and to many others. The people who are too busy seeing human beings and gathering anecdotal wisdom to be writing papers involving clinical studies; the men and women who know how to hold out the sponge along the marathon route but don't stuff it down your oesophagus; the doctors who still know what diagnosis means; the ones who know that the quality of your life is not the same as the length of it; the practitioners who know when to stop and when to go.
Dr. Michelle Alpert: Family (family being whatever you choose to make it) Medicine, Infectious Diseases and the woman with the most infectious laugh in Manhattan. Knows how to be a doctor and a friend.
Dr. Deborah Coady: Gynecologist. A woman who readily acknowledges that being a woman has its bizarre aspects but somehow makes it seem fine as evidenced by the tilt of her head.
Dr. Busell: Hematologist. A brilliant doctor if your blood is funky and a man recently educated in bed side manners by a patient's father wielding a scalpel. You no longer encounter endless waits in his rooms and the scars on his face have healed nicely.
Nurse Practitioner Weisz: Family Practice and Infectious Diseases. A woman possessing a fabulous brain, great legs and good ears.
Dr. Liz Greenberg: Chiropractor. Can resolve anything related to the spine and is your single best defense against computer shoulder.
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Into the house comes the annual New York magazine Best Doctors issue, just as the issue proclaiming the best restaurants, the best dry cleaner, or the best pedicure does. While I am loathe to admit that I will slavishly follow their suggestions regarding restaurants, stain removal outlets, or who best to commit the aesthetics of my extremities to, I find their doctor list lacking. None of my favourites are on it. I was curious as to their methodology when choosing these great providers and came across the phrase "a cross-checked compendium of referrals, in which doctors rate their peers." It has a dubious tone. Never ask a doctor about a doctor, ask a patient; or ask a doctor who asks their patients about other doctors. I wanted to share my list because something in me has grown weary of the appropriation and dissemination of "the best of " everything through the normal channels. I wanted to sing the praises of the people who make the vagaries of health tolerable to me and to many others. The people who are too busy seeing human beings and gathering anecdotal wisdom to be writing papers involving clinical studies; the men and women who know how to hold out the sponge along the marathon route but don't stuff it down your oesophagus; the doctors who still know what diagnosis means; the ones who know that the quality of your life is not the same as the length of it; the practitioners who know when to stop and when to go.
Dr. Michelle Alpert: Family (family being whatever you choose to make it) Medicine, Infectious Diseases and the woman with the most infectious laugh in Manhattan. Knows how to be a doctor and a friend.
Dr. Deborah Coady: Gynecologist. A woman who readily acknowledges that being a woman has its bizarre aspects but somehow makes it seem fine as evidenced by the tilt of her head.
Dr. Busell: Hematologist. A brilliant doctor if your blood is funky and a man recently educated in bed side manners by a patient's father wielding a scalpel. You no longer encounter endless waits in his rooms and the scars on his face have healed nicely.
Nurse Practitioner Weisz: Family Practice and Infectious Diseases. A woman possessing a fabulous brain, great legs and good ears.
Dr. Liz Greenberg: Chiropractor. Can resolve anything related to the spine and is your single best defense against computer shoulder.
- rachael 5-30-2001 7:59 pm