"veteran Friendly" Doctor Directory

[broncovet]

Hoppy pointed out that the outcome of Workman's comp. claims is often determined by which doctor the claimant goes to. It is "hit or miss"...doctors aren't categorized in the phone book as claimant friendly. So, lawyers often do just that. If you hire a lawyer to seek workmans compensation, the lawyer often suggests you see Doctor .................. because he has had experience with that doc and knows that doc will be "claimant friendly".

In a similar way, we need a "Veteran friendly" doctor list for Veterans, because, as Carlie, Berta, and others have pointed out, "Evidence wins claims". Knowing which doctor to see could easily be the difference between being awarded benefits, and homelessness.

IMHO being awarded benefits can often mean the difference between homelessness or not. Maybe WE can actually help prevent Veteran homelessness by posting 2 lists of doctors: 1)Veteran Friendlies and 2) Homeless creating Docs.

Further, I would like to see Veterans "switch" away from those Veteran unfriendly docs enough to either force that doc to become Veteran friendly, or to loose his job because no Veterans want to see him. What do you guys think?

[Pete53]

Although I agree that a specialist is the maximum benefit for an IMO I also have seen plenty of claims that an opinion outside the field that for instance adds to severity or secondary condition also helps.

I have seen claims won that were written by family Docs and were acceptable to VA cause the Doc was an MD.

So my advise is get a specialist if you can but any Doc will do especially when confronting a bad C&P and don't forget that most VA C&P's are done by just about anyone that the VA can hire on the cheap