Doctors

Most of the time the other place will ask you where you go to the doctor for GP, even if the GP referred you to them. The two doctor's share information back and forth as to better help you and make sure that they are treating you with allergies and other conditions you may have in mind. It could be the DR. was worried that you may not be telling the other Dr. who is performing your surgery everything, and the DR. doesn't want either anything to happen to you, or he / she to have any repercussions on themselves. Honestly, I think also that the GP gets some sort of recognition or money for referring a dr. in their network....

Yes, usually your GP should know the name of your surgeon. It comes in handy for complications or other problems. I always make sure that my GP knows who my specialists are and what they are treating me for plus any medication they have placed me on. This is smart because of the fact that there may be times where a medication is prescribed by one doctor and a different doctor may prescribe one that will have bad interactions with one you are already on. That is why they often ask for the names of the other physicians that are treating you. You don't have to tell the GP the name of the surgeon...but sometimes the doctors may have to communicate with each other about treatment. It is totally up to you which you decide.

hi nailtech why do you want to keep it secret from your primary care doctor, do you not respect him? if you do you should level with him abouyt any other medical care. a good doctor wants to keep track of any sugeries or other things done by other doctors. usually after surgery with a surgeron he or she will tellyou to get an appt with your primary care doctor to be checked and keep him or her in the loop.I have always done this with my primary care doctor so he can put this in my records.You are not treating your primary care doctolr with much courtesy.

Why would your general practioner be 'pissed' at you? Out of concern for your wellbeing maybe. Its like this.... you are going to build this building and you go out and secretly bring on seperate contracters for each part of the building. So none of them know what the other is doing. Do you really think you will have a good product without getting them all on board and working together? Think of yourself as that building.

oh dear yes!! all doctors and the nurses have to know all each other does and knows so no mix up will happen with your meds or procedures being done. no one wants to make a mistake and if they dont know all your medical stuff they could make a mistake that costs your life! actually i love my practitioner she is so much better to me then my doctor. seems to know and understand more also. btw, what are you having done?

I guess the first question that I want to ask here is why do you not want to tell your GP the name of the specialist that is performing your surgery. Basically the only time that I hear of people that won't share the names of their other doctors with their GP is when they are doctor shopping for medication or something like that. It is important that your GP know all of the doctors that you are working with so that they will be able to have the fullest medical history on you that they are able to have. This is important to make sure that you don't have any medication interactions and things like that.

of course, each and every doctor needs to know the patient's history, what particular procedure are you going into, what type of medications you take or needed. The name of the doctor is very much important if in the case there will be a problem during the surgery. So I think you need to tell your doctor all the necessary information that he needs.