Re: Re: Doctors in San Francisco Bay Area

[Guest guest]

Wow! That's quite a recommendation! I've got United Healthcare, and its

a PPO plan, so getting a doctor out of network shouldn't be a problem.

I would though love to see your letter, any help I can get is

wonderful. I live in San , so I'm only about 45 minutes from

Pleasanton.

I sent Dr. Colborn and email this morning and hope to hear from him

soon. It would be very nice to meet him before my baby is born. Just

getting these details in place will let the rest of my pregnancy be

even more peaceful.

> e live in Southern California and drive or fly to see Dr. Colborn.

> He is truly the best on the west coast.  Dr. Ponsetti's wife is the

> one that told me this in August of 2002.  We don't have Kaiser and

> still see Dr. C with no problem. We pay up front with a check and

> our insurance reimburses us.  Getting insurance to approve it can be

> challenging, but can be done. I've got a letter that I wrote to my

> insurance that I can email you if you decide to see Dr. Colborn. We

> have Blue Cross, who do you have???

>

[Guest guest]

I would also chime in that Dr Colburn is awsome! Our son has been treated by Dr

Mosca in Seattle and Dr Ponseti, but when I was trying to get information about

atypical clubfoot - at the time very little was know about it - Dr Colburn was

the ONLY doctor (outside of the above-mentioned, of course) that replied to me,

and he was actually very familiar with the condition! He gave me all the info

he knew on it, told me his thoughts on the cause, and sent me instructions for

stretching excercises to help prevent relapse and promote correction.

At that time he actually knew more about it than Dr Ponseti and was successfully

treating it in 3 patients. Dr Ponseti considers puts him on the short, short

list of best possible/most experienced doctor to see in the world.

Having said all that, if money is a consideration, by all means go to Shriners,

and know that if you run into any kinks in treatment you have one of the best of

the best available if necessary.

Angel

From: jwray11

To: nosurgery4clubfoot

Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 8:07 PM

Subject: Re: Doctors in San Francisco Bay Area

Hi -

We live in Southern California and drive or fly to see Dr. Colborn.

He is truly the best on the west coast. Dr. Ponsetti's wife is the

one that told me this in August of 2002. We don't have Kaiser and

still see Dr. C with no problem. We pay up front with a check and

our insurance reimburses us. Getting insurance to approve it can be

challenging, but can be done. I've got a letter that I wrote to my

insurance that I can email you if you decide to see Dr. Colborn. We

have Blue Cross, who do you have???

We saw two doctors (one was certified by Ponseti) before we found

Dr. Colborn. I was a constant wreck with the other two doctors, the

first didn't believe in the Ponsetti Method and the second said he

followed the protocol to a " T " and actually didn't. Getting to talk

to them in person between appointments was impossible. Dr. Colborn

will talk with you by phone before you even have your baby. He

talked to me for 45 minutes on his day off when we had a concern and

our Ponsetti Doctor at the time wouldn't even return our call. To

make a long story short we never went back to the other doctor and

went straight to Dr. C. It was truly the best decision we ever made

and saved me many months of concern.

[Guest guest]

Nicki-

Thank you so much for this information! I have a call into Dr. Colburn

right now. He's in the operating room right now, so tomorrow I'm to

expect a call from him. I think I need to call my insurance company now

and see how I can get them to reimburse me. The overall cost isn't too

much, but it would be nice to have it defrayed by insurance.

I'll email you offline...sounds like we are at just the same point in

things. My baby being due 6/7... we'll be seeing Dr. Colburn right

around the same time I imagine...

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>

> I was impressed with Dr. Colburn's compassion in his immediate reply

> and was feeling infinitely better about the road ahead after hearing

> from him. Thanks to all you other Colburn patients for your ringing

> endorsements -- that gives us even MORE comfort and confidence!

>