How to find a non-terrible doctor?

Post date: 2020-08-09 20:33:53

I'm looking for a new primary care physician in NYC. They have to be a really, REALLY, REALLY great one. Really, the best.

My beloved, long-term primary care physician who was one of the people I trusted most on this earth ghosted me in a rather emotionally violent way at peak-pandemic. I don't know what I did, but I imagine being a frontline worker in a high case area with family who were affected was stressful and awful and that contributed to what seemed like an out-of-character breakdown directed at me. Either way it was cruel, and traumatic, and left me at loose ends. I would like to have a doctor again.

I've experienced a lot of medical abuse in my past. So, it's really important for me to find a doctor who is trauma informed, knows a lot about psychiatric medication, is disability-friendly, queer-friendly, kind, takes me seriously, and understands my somewhat complex medical history which includes (diagnosed, spinal) chronic pain issues and a family history of gastric cancer I'll need to begin screening for soon. But I also need to find a doctor who isn't so open-minded they believe in, to be polite, illnesses science has proven don't exist. I want someone who is sensible and rigorous too. Sometimes, those things don't cross over.

I am not sure this doctor exists! I very much doubt they do, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong! My health insurance is NYU Cigna but I'm also willing to pay out of pocket for the right person. Manhattan or Brooklyn. Gender doesn't matter necessarily, although I'm prefer a female doctor.

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