Dr Bain is extremely well rated by the majority of his patients. A few, however, rated him poorly after typically one and no more than 2 visits. I am his established patient and I think I know why.
Many a genius can come across as distracted or disorganized in some ways. If you give up because of these first impressions, you will not reap the benefits of seeing Dr Bain. Also, if you find typical doctors helpful, keep seeing them. If you have seen enough of them and not getting meaningful help, however, go see Dr Bain with an open-mind and work with him.
I started seeing Dr Bain a year ago, at a time I was at the end of my rope having tried a few well-rated internists and seen a host of specialists at Northwestern for 10+ years, incurred tens of thousands of medical payment (all picked up by Blue Cross PPO), tens of scans, hundreds of labs and quite of number of procedures and still suffering from multiple chronic conditions. The first couple of hour-long visits with Dr Bain was nothing like my typical doctor visits. First of all, he explained to me his treating philosophy - he is neither my typical primary care doctor nor my specialist. He told me that these doctors have their respectable places in medicine and I should keep them in my care. Instead, he asked me to use him as a 3rd opinion to learn from the experience of other patients like me and gain insights to what might be worth pursuing in terms of treatment. He provided me a number of links to online sites, some of which patient forums, and told me to go study before seeing him again. He told me that his approach cannot be effective unless I educate myself first.
I have since found relief for a number of chronic conditions which I had been told by other doctors that were either benign, psychosomatic or inevitable due to aging. My bowel issues are mostly healed. My headaches are less frequent, and I am doing better now on a number of measures after stopping a symptom-reducing drug that can cause blindness as a long-term side effect. I know that this is NOT sheer luck because Dr Bain's diagnoses and treatments were based on lab results, and he ordered those labs based on his thorough investigation of my health and his profound knowledge of medicine. Blue Cross PPO spent tens of thousands of dollars for my medical expenses during the past decades to have brought me no relief until I found Dr Bain. The tools to cure many chronic conditions are there in Western medicine, but it takes a genius doctor to unlock their potentials and I am so happy that I found him!
Dr Bain is not a profiteer. I learned that when I dragged my skeptical husband in to see him for his multiple age-onset hereditary conditions. Dr Bain thanked me for the referral, talked to my husband at length and concluded that it was not (yet) time for them to start a doctor-patient relationship (not until the patient sees the limits of conventional medicine, such as what you get from major medical centers). He did not even charge a visit to his insurance because, Dr Bain said, he did not dispense any medical advice during the visit. That's a world of difference from any other doctor I know, many of whom would order you to come in for a hollow "follow-up" visit just so they can bill one more. He is NOT a money-grabber. That I think was unfair to say of him by one of the reviewers. read more
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