Neurosurgeon Mezin told why it is important to keep in touch with the doctor

Live at the MK press center dedicated to back health, the doctors explained how the diagnosis is made and why it is important to trust your doctor.

“When a patient arrives, a conditional flowchart appears in my head: if the patient enters on his own, then some of the diseases are already cut off,” says neurologist Dmitry Afonin, chief physician of the Prospekt Mira clinic. – Then some things are cut off in the process of complaints at the reception and in the process of inspection. And if there are unresolved issues, then at the end of the reception we solve it together.”

“An important aspect of treatment is contact with a doctor,” Andrey Mezin, a neurosurgeon at the CDC on Presnya, believes. “I provide my patients with different ways to solve the problem, and together we choose what to do next. It is important to find a joint solution based on lifestyle and other aspects.

One of the patient’s fears is to offend the doctor with such a question as, for example, how often the surgeon performed such operations. Don’t be afraid to ask, that’s fine. The same with an alternative point of view: to go to another doctor to listen to a third-party opinion, this is the norm. On the contrary, it helps in solving the problem.”