Physician office visits and testing
Prior to your visiting a doctor, it is highly recommended that you review your medical log to refresh your memory as to the symptoms suffered and improvement experienced prior to the visit. On the evening prior to your doctor visit, discuss with your wife, girlfriend, family members or associates their observations of problems, both physical and mental, which have surfaced since the accident.
It is important to review and practice your discussion with the doctor before walking in the examining room. Your recollection of the visit and of the exam may be completely different than that which was dictated into the physician’s report to the company and its insurance company. In his defense, the physician would have seen hundreds of patients when his recollection of the visit comes into play. Someone reviewing your claim, in all probability, will never personally contact the physician relative to the problem. Strict reliance is on the physician’s medical report and his observations included therein. It is up to you to properly communicate your problems so leave no stone unturned!
Should you not be happy with the medical care and treatment afforded you by the company physician, you are entitled under the law to have a second opinion. Included in that right is the right to be transported to any facility within the reasonable proximity of your home for further care and treatment. Obtaining treatment at medical facilities of your choice is within your rights under the law.