GI DR

I am going to see a new GI tomorrow. I have looked him up online and he is not a member of the CCRA. Does anybody know if this is important?  There are other GI's at the same clinic who's name comes up on CCRA. So does that mean that this Dr is going to know nothing about crohns?

~M~

Are you from Wisconsin by chance? (Guessing by your name, packfan). Anyway, I'm originally from the La Crosse, WI area, but now up in the Twin Cities for school. I saw a phenomenal GI back at home. He was originally listed in the CCFA's physician list, but isn't anymore. Doctors have to pay to get on the list, so I don't find it to be that important. Any GI can get on the list as long as they pay, no matter how good they are.

I think it was a typo they I think meant CCFA since that is the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America and it is www.CCFA.org both of my GI docs have been on this list and I love my old doc as a person but he was not aggressive enough with my Tx and didnt believe me when I told him I was in a flare even after medical tests showed that I was flaring. My new GI is also on the CCFA list and he is one of the directors of CCFA. When I moved to Cali I was searching for a doc out there before moving there figuring I didnt know anyone to give me referals out there for a GI. None of the docs on the list were in the area I was moving to and the ones that were were not covered by my health insurance.

There were 2 GI docs in the city I lived in while I was in CA I chose the doctor whose name I could pronounce he was a great doctor and helped me through a flare however he was not allowed by law to script out pain meds stronger than vocodin. He was even unable to script percoset since it is on a different tier. So no all good GI docs are not on the CCFA list

If you don't mind me asking, who did you see at the University clinic? I'm seeing a GI at the U of M clinic now since I live in Minneapolis for school.

Sorry to hear that your primary care clinic was having such an issue with giving you referrals, especially when they're the ones who sent you up there in the first place.

That's who I currently see! Small world!