Zuzu said:
>> ... and perhaps by several doctors.
>> ... prescribed heavy painkillers and occasional epidurals by her family doctor, but nothing helped. She then went to a neurologist, who detected a bone spur in the first five minutes of her visit. The consequent surgery eliminated all of her pain.
A friend of a friend's wife had a sudden onset of bad recurring headaches, and her well-meaning GP unfortunately referred her to a cancer specialist.
He couldn't find "the brain tumor" with CAT scans and had scheduled exploratory brain surgery to find "the tumor that must be causing the headaches".
Coincidentally she went to her dentist for a regular cleaning.
It took him less than five minutes of poking to find a big cavity.
"This must be giving you BAD headaches!" he said.
Sometimes the second opinion is a much BETTER opinion.
