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Hi Debbie, can you research fully the other neurologist and, if you strongly believe s/he is better, just force the change? You are the consumer in this transaction after all.

Most of my doctors are with Cleveland Clinic but I retained an excellent cardiologist from outside the CC system. She and my PCP share any relevant test without any difficulty. I've also switched specialists within CC one time because the first one was too dogmatic and authoritarian for me to want to deal with. Not a team player, in a sense, and I'm not a good candidate for that approach to medicine.

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I have researched and have one selected outside my current system to pursue if a new one in-system doesn't get approved. I too like to see all my records linked on one site, but would be fine with a new Neurologist sharing separately with my PCP. To be honest, my current Neurologist hasn't done anything that's useful for my other doctors to see at this point, so nothing would be missed. Like yours, my current neurologist's style doesn't work for me. I need communication, evidence of listening, and at least short explanations. Coaching and/or confirmation of things would be nice. I almost feel sorry for him; I don't think his computer skills are up to par, and in today's fast paced office visits of 20 minutes, I lose half of his time because he's fumbling around on his computer and having difficulty finding and navigating through my records. So he can't talk and listen while toggling around. He loses things, forgets things, and his office visit notes are so inaccurate when I read them. I just don't want to personally suffer because of his inability to keep up with the times. He needs an assistant to help him, but I know healthcare systems wouldn't be able to afford that...