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>> Careful listening and asking the patient a lot of questions is really will lead you
to the diagnosis in a lot of cases, or at least a really good differential diagnosis,
kind of a small list of things that something could possibly be.
And then we use, you know, lab work and imaging to kind of follow up to clarify things.
Typically when we're discussing treatment for any given thing, I like to lay out the options
and work with the patient to try to find out what's going to work best for them.
For some patients when they come in to establish care, they have a limited number of things
that are easy to take care of, and we can take care of them in one visit and that's enough.
Other patients that have other things that may be going on, or things that we need to work
on for a longer period of time, we sort of work on it as a process together.
And for a while, especially with new patients, I might be seeing them frequently
for a couple months until they're a little bit tuned-up, so to speak.
And then they might not see me for another year or so.
So a lot of times it's just a little bit of work with a patient, we can get people to a situation
where their symptoms or their diseases are much improved or much better controlled.
And then we can get them out of the office for a longer time; and that's kind of nice.
And then it's always the most fun to see them back
in that year, and to say, How are you doing?
And they're feeling better; and that's really fun to know that they're feeling better.