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Why do doctors ask to see medical records before they will accept you as a new patient , what are they looking for refusing to take you as a patient?
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New Patients: Physicians like to review past history of patients to see if they are comfortable treating the patient.
Answered 5/2/2015
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Benefit Analysis: Weighing whether they can help you, weighing the cost to their reputation, impact on yours, and their qualitity of life. By taking on a potentially difficult situation, or patient, that others have already been unsuccessful in trying to help, the doctor is exposing themselves to potential harm if they fail or success if the perception/reality about their care for you exemplary .Is it worth it?
Answered 11/22/2014
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