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NAVIGATING YOUR MS CARE QUESTIONS TO ASK AT YOUR FIRST APPOINTMENT
Questions to
ask at your first
appointment
General 1. What is your neurological specialty? If it’s not MS, have
you done any extra training in treatment of MS?
How many patients with MS do you currently treat?
Note: A teaching hospital
usually means that when 2. Is this a teaching hospital?
your doctor visits, they
may have a group of
students with them. Some
people find that having a
group of people listening 3. Will you be my only doctor, or will I see other doctors in
to their discussion is
uncomfortable. If you this practice?
prefer a one-on-one visit
with your doctor, consider
asking specifically not
to have students in your
visits or looking into 4. Are there any other specialists I should be seeing
another hospital. (e.g., speech, physical or occupational therapists,
or a neuropsychologist)?
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