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title: Negotiating With Doctors
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author:
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- Anonymous
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- KemoNine (Ghost Writer)
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publishDate: 2023-03-23
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lastMod: 2023-03-23
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toc: true
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draft: false
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categories:
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- tips
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- doctors
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tags:
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- negotiation
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- surgery
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---
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## Changelog
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{{< changelog >}}
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{{< change 2023-03-23 "Initial creation" >}}
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{{< /changelog >}}
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{{< end_section >}}
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## You can negotiate with doctors
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{{< back_to_top >}}
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It may not be obvious but you *can* negotiate with your doctors about accommodating needs for what would normally be a trivial procedure, but isn't for us [the disabled].
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Even with a pacing strategy, adaptations when you know you are going to encounter a major challenge to your system can be important and discussing options with a health care provider shoud address these challenges.
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However, providers tend not to offer alternatives, adaptations or strategies unless prompted. It usually best to initiate a conversation with your provider instead of waiting for them to offer.
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{{< end_section >}}
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## When to negotiate?
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{{< back_to_top >}}
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Succinctly: every time.
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Trips to the dentist, travel, big events, sick loved one, all can require negotiations with health care providers.
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> This is gonna be hella hard on me, how do I mitigate that?
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If you are asking yourself how to midigate the difficulties, you should ask your doctor to work with you to mitigate your difficulties.
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It's also not just the name of the surgery or just "minor day surgery", which is the problem: "normal" people and doctors don't realize it isn't "minor" based on all the other shit I [we] have going on.
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So this is really about speaking up for accommodations other don't even realize you need. And I didn't realize I needed until I was on the other side and went: well THAT could have gone better.
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{{< end_section >}}
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## Related Anecdotes
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{{< back_to_top >}}
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- [Minor Day Surgery]({{< ref "anecdotes/minor-day-surgery-0001" >}})
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{{< back_to_top >}}
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