Telehealth Services Considering a Second Medical Opinion | Page 3

It is important to ask your health insurance company if your insurance plan will cover
getting a second opinion. If you have been told to get surgery, you may want to get a
second opinion. Hence, your health plan might actually require a second opinion.
A second opinion may recommend such treatments that may eliminate the need for
unnecessary surgery. Surgery once done leaves a permanent impact on both your
anatomy as well as your physiology.
2. Choose a doctor which is outside from your care team:
If you want an independent recommendation regarding your medical condition, it is
important to find the doctor who doesn’t have an affiliation with your first specialist as
it is obvious that colleagues and friends may not want to contradict each other.
Medical and surgical specialists like all professionals have their particular behaviors and
biases that are common to their practice group. Finding another specialist perhaps even
from another state or country can bring about much needed information leading to a
breakthrough technology and future thinking novel approach that has yet to be explored
with your original specialist.
3. Finding alternative treatments:
It is always better to find out different treatment options. Most people tend to find
natural treatment options as they have minimal or no side-effects.