I stay with Dr. Lauer because I haven't found a better doctor.
The good: He is easy to see. If I'm sick, I've never had trouble seeing him that day.
The bad: He can be rather a pain about referrals. For example, I was pregnant. I knew I was pregnant, I told the office on the phone I was pregnant. However, this still required I come in for an appointment before giving me a referral. Most doctors these days will take your word on it because the pregnancy tests on the shelf are pretty the same ones they use.
I'm also not convince he treats some things aggressively enough. My husband has diabetes, and his care (prescriptions, monitoring, tests etc) has been patient-led. We have had to do a lot of reading up on this ourselves, because the information was simply not presented by Dr. Lauer (in a complete manner). read more