This was not my experience. Last week I self-referred for my essential tremors.

I was seen by 3 movement specialists (2 in GA my previous state, and now in FL).

I received a call ~2 days after I sent in my referral. No appointments - even into 2025 - schedule isn’t open that far up. Could not put me on waiting list either.

I’ve failed every med I’ve been put on. Am in process of getting the TAPS device by Cala.

Saw the Neuro yesterday. He is such a waste of space. As a nurse practitioner, I read the current journals and google current thoughts on meds when refractory to the established ones.

He never knows what I’m talking about, and has never touched me - to do strength measurements etc.

I brought a ‘cm’ ruler as he didn’t have one. Thank God I read where and how to measure my wrist, as he had no idea.

Ironically one of the docs in his office has her name come up when on the Cala site, looking for docs. Told him this. He couldn’t care less.

We just went up on my useless Propranolol. He referred me to a neurosurgeon ~3 mo ago at my last visit. He had a ‘tude yesterday, ‘why didn’t I see the neurosurgeon’. A first, I would NEVER go to a doc he referred me to for brain surgery - not down here in east coast FL, B. When I looked him up - quite a few lawsuits with verdicts! That’s a hard no in my book!

He knows I’m a traveling nurse practitioner, so I was out of town. “Oh, ok, call him again”. Yeah, no.

I guess at this point, Mayo is not the only hospital on earth. I’ve been to Emory, and am looking at UFL.