{"id":2721,"date":"2019-03-06T14:09:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T20:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/?p=2721"},"modified":"2019-09-11T10:02:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T15:02:39","slug":"seeing-a-specialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/2019\/03\/06\/seeing-a-specialist\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing a Specialist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A doctor may refer you to a specialist if a condition requires further evaluation. When visiting a specialist, it is important to ask questions if areas are left unclear. If the specialist gives a diagnosis that you are unfamiliar with, ask the doctor to explain it and how it will affect the body.<\/p>\n<p><b>Questions to ask the specialist:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is my diagnosis?<\/li>\n<li>What treatment do I need?<\/li>\n<li>Can you discuss the condition with my primary doctor?<\/li>\n<li>When do I need to begin treatment?<\/li>\n<li>What are the necessary steps I should take?<\/li>\n<li>Do I need any more referrals?<\/li>\n<li>How will this affect my day to day life?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: National Institute on Aging<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A doctor may refer you to a specialist if a condition requires further evaluation. When visiting a specialist, it is important to ask questions if areas are left unclear. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[200980],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging-resources"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2725,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions\/2725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}