FAQs

MD For Patients can help you before you move, by reviewing you child’s needs, identifying what medical records you need and what type of specialist you need during and after relocation. We can be your point of contact for interim care, and after your move in collaboration with you primary care provider.

MD For Patients and our specialists can help you identify which records and images you need to transfer with your family and provide interim care during your relocation experience.

We can work directly with patients, parents of minor patients, and legal representatives of patients such as family members who have legal durable healthcare power of attorney. We work in collaboration with your local care provider. We follow patient confidentiality-protecting protocols.

Here’s how the process works for our patients:

When you request an initial consultation, MD For Patients will arrange a teleconference between you and our triage team. The focus of that consultation is to understand your questions, medical needs, and history. After your initial consultation, we will custom-build a specialist team and treatment plan tailored to meet your medical needs. You will have an opportunity to review our proposed treatment plan so that you can make an informed determination about moving forward with your assigned world-class specialist. 

The goal of the entire process is to help you.

One of the most important founding principles of MD For Patients is to improve each patient’s understanding of their own health. This is why, throughout the process, patients are encouraged to ask any questions they may have.

This includes after the patient’s tele-conference or phone call with one of our physicians, because we know that often patients can’t think of all of their followup questions during an initial consultation. Patients are usually too stressed processing all the new and important information they are receiving to think through the ramifications of the information immediately – and then come up with additional questions later.  This is a completely normal, common phenomenon that occurs after a patient or parent has had some time to process new information – particularly when the information is as critical and personal to them as is healthcare.

Because there is no third-party payer involved, and no employer-mandated productivity metric to meet, the physician consultant can spend as much time as needed to gather the information they need to consider the case fully, and the patient can experience one or more un-rushed discussions with the physician consultant in order to understand the opinions and recommendations of the physician.Providers at MD For Patients are committed to communicating their findings and opinions directly to patients with dignity, compassion, transparency, and honesty, while encouraging patients to ask follow-up questions immediately or later, once the patient has had time to consider the information that has been conveyed to them, and to recall questions they meant to ask, or to ask new questions they did not think to ask at the first visit.

At MD for Patients, we encourage you to communicate with your physician consultants directly, because better communication means a better outcome.

Communication problems including inaccurate and incomplete histories frequently cause diagnostic errors.  When patients try to discuss their imaging examination findings and reports with an original interpreting radiologist, even when they have helpful additional information for the radiologist to take into consideration, they are usually unable to reach or communicate directly with that radiologist.  Often, even their physicians who ordered the exams in the first place are unable to discuss findings with the original interpreting radiologist or obtain a consultation or second opinion for clarification, or to update the radiologist with new data. Information that came to light after the original interpretation was reported may not be taken into account – and the report may never be updated to reflect it.