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Pippi
Citizen
Username: Pippi
Post Number: 40
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 11:59 am: | 
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I am finally ready to give up my NYC doctor...can anyone recommend a general practitioner?
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algebra2
Citizen
Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 1705
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 12:02 pm: |
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Dr. Eileen Klein -- Summit Medical
I have kept my NYC docs since I am here (NY) more than I am in NJ. Also, my company's plan is written so that I have to have a doctor in NYS. My hubby sees Dr. Klein and really likes her a lot. I've dealt with her office and they are NICE! |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 2380
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 12:40 pm: |
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Dr. Scott Orenberg
1985 Springfield Ave (next to Dunkin Donuts)
Maplewood, NJ 07040
973-763-5010
great bedside manner, very good listener, very informative
his secretary is super-efficient, too
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
There is nothing
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shh
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 975
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 1:15 pm: |
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I'm looking too. Summit Med Group doesn't take our insurance (GHI) and I tried calling Orenburg's office but got put on hold. Maybe I should try again. |
Pippi
Citizen
Username: Pippi
Post Number: 41
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 2:29 pm: |
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Algebra - up until this past week I have kept my NYC doctors, too. But as I was laid up in bed for 2 days, too far from the city I thought -- "This is nuts!" what if I had a real emergency? The only NYC doc I am keeping is my GYN - love him, and only see him twice a year, so I can schlep....
Thanks Algebra and Tom... I will be making calls to see if they take Oxford.
shh - let me know what you come up with too. I trust you  usually |
algebra2
Citizen
Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 1708
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 2:39 pm: |
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Pippi -- I ended up at St. B's emergency room last week! I called my insurance company and that's what they told me to do. I had strep and was never so ill in my life. The people at emergency were very kind and took great care of me but I felt like a fool showing up for strep throat. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 2383
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 2:43 pm: |
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Strep throat is serious. It doesn't seem it because once treated, it goes away quickly. I used to get it every year, almost like clockwork. I rush into the doctor's office whenever I think I might have it. I once tested negative one day and positive the next, which is to say I can feel it coming on before the doctor can detect it. Don't feel bad for going in with it. It can get serious, as you now know.
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
There is nothing
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Pippi
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Username: Pippi
Post Number: 43
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 2:56 pm: |
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I thought I might have had strep too! I coulda ended up at St. B's...if Oxford would cover it....who knows? they're crooks.
Oh wait, that's another thread.
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algebra2
Citizen
Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 1709
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 3:00 pm: |
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Aetna is good. An emergency room visit is $35 a primary care appt is $5 and a specialist is free -- perscriptions are $2.50 under my plan. My husband has Aetna too but his plan is nowhere near as good.
Can you tell I am not getting any work done today? |
hismom
Citizen
Username: Hismom
Post Number: 92
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 3:13 pm: |
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All the doctors at Springfield Family Practice (Samantha Pozner, Marnie Doubek and Hugh Snyder) 973-376-7788 are wonderful. You are never rushed and getting an appointment isn't difficult. The office staff is really nice, too! |
ashear
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Username: Ashear
Post Number: 1035
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 3:19 pm: |
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My wife did her residency with the Docs at Springfield and that is where she sends anyone looking for a primary care doc around here. The are all very nice. |
Keywest
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Username: Keywest
Post Number: 2
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 3:37 pm: |
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Second that recommendation for Dr. Orenberg !
Dr. Scott Orenberg
1985 Springfield Ave (next to Dunkin Donuts)
Maplewood, NJ 07040
973-763-5010
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Wendyn
Citizen
Username: Wendyn
Post Number: 153
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 4:32 pm: |
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I am on Oxford and use Summit Med Group, mainly see the drs based in Short Hills (also see the peds and OB/GYN there). My primary is Dr. Marcia Sherman and she is fine but I had an appt once with Dr. Bloustein who was awesome.
FYI...never had much of a problem with Oxford. My first child was in the NICU after birth for a couple of weeks, $25,000 (just for NICU plus about $8k for the delivery) and we only paid the $10 copay at the beginning of my pregnancy. |
Pippi
Citizen
Username: Pippi
Post Number: 44
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 10:01 am: |
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Wendyn - I am glad to hear Oxford steps up when it comes to the serious stuff, I really am. Because when you've just given birth and your baby is in the NICU I am sure the very last thing you want to worry about is insurance red tape...
Minor complaint, but indicative of how I feel about insurance companies: last week I was denied a prescription for celebrex. Was told I had to try two different meds before they would authorize it! My doc obviously didn't WANT to recommend other drugs - or else he WOULD have!
thanks all, for the recommendations. |
shh
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 976
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 10:45 am: |
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Well Pipp, you know how Oxford stepped up with me—they flew us out of Quebec by air ambulance the day after the insurance took effect. Chubb had us there for what we expected to be at least a month, with a tiny premie surrounded by all these gargantuan lumberjack babies.  |
Wendyn
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Username: Wendyn
Post Number: 155
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 11:12 am: |
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Off topic...
shh, isn't is strange to see your tiny baby next to "normal sized" infants? My first was low birth weight (not considered preemie at 37.5 weeks) and was 3lbs 7oz. In the NICU at Overlook she was one of the smallest babies there but surprizingly one of the healtiest. Went home at around 4lbs. When I put her in the Y at 6 months the caretakers treated her like she was 6 weeks! I had to tell them to put her on the floor so she could work on sitting up, etc. She is still TINY at 3 years (just hit 20 lbs) but that is probably genes as DH and I are small people. DD#2 was 6lbs 7oz and I thought she was enourmous! At 10 months she weighs almost as much as #1. Still small on the charts but so heavy to me! |
shh
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 977
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 11:57 am: |
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Wendy, we were transferred to St. B's where my 4 lb'er seemed huge in comparison to 1 lb'ers. My other 2 girls were premie, but 6'6. Now all healthy and happy. H and I are both kind of small-boned too (right Pipp? ) so I'd never expect to have bruisers either. |
Pippi
Citizen
Username: Pippi
Post Number: 45
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 1:36 pm: |
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right shh - much to my dismay (and laughter?) 
and your little peanut is STILL a peanut!
I actually didn't know it was Oxford that got you out of canada... |
shh
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 980
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 1:51 pm: |
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Yup. Loved Oxford, for the most part. Premiums killed us though. |
shh
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 981
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 1:54 pm: |
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BTW Pippi...TWO days you were laid up? "Hello, I'm sick. Are you sick? I can't move."
Sympathy has never been my strong point. Or would that have been empathy? |
Pippi
Citizen
Username: Pippi
Post Number: 46
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 2:20 pm: |
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shh- I'd consider them fightin' words, except I've known since you were 6 yrs old that neither sympathy NOR empathy were your strong points. I love you anyway.
YES - TWO days - can you believe it??
wanna go to the park this weekend again - I can spend even more time laid up
Do you still have that message? I bet it is good for a laugh.... |
shh
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 982
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 2:37 pm: |
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Uhm, we met the first day of kindergarten at P.S. 22 in 1974. Neither of us had yet turned five.
Holy sh-t I've known you for almost thirty years—and we still talk! Amazing!
I'd love to go to the park, early whichever day is fine.
I erased the message—my kids would have seen me ROFLMAO every time I checked the voice mail and wondered what the F was up with mommy, so I deleted it.
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Pippi
Citizen
Username: Pippi
Post Number: 47
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 7:23 pm: |
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well, there were those few years we didn't talk, but lets not get into that...
sunday morning, early. |
shh
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 984
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 7:52 pm: |
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Years? No, a couple of MONTHS, most of which were spent living in that concrete hell. Once I left we were ok.
(Join the club, I didn't speak to too many people then anyway, and of course there's the one I did speak to who wished I'd leave him alone!) 
Sunday, fine.
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