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 | As anyone who has received health care in Connecticut—and that’s pretty much all of us—can attest, we enjoy ready access to some of the finest physicians in practice today. |
How the doctors were Selected:
We recently sent more than 5,000 questionnaires to doctors from one end of Connecticut to the other, asking them to recommend a doctor (other than themselves) to whom they would send a loved one for expert medical care. In this year’s survey, the focus was on eight specialties, including four new areas: bariatric medicine, nephrology, plastic and reconstructive surgery and pulmonary medicine. We then took the top vote-getters in those categories and combined their names with all those doctors who finished at the top of our surveys from the years 2008 to 2010—making sure to update all necessary information as we went along.
The result is our largest group of Top Docs ever—837 doctors in 29 categories, the result of more than 15,000 questionnaires sent out over a four-year period. With such a wide array of specialties covered, this issue of Connecticut Magazine makes a very good place to begin your search for medical help.
As always, we like to say that every physician who makes the list is a good one, or at least a recommended one, but not every good physician in the state makes the list. Because of that, we suggest you use this list as a reference, not the final word. You must ultimately do your own due diligence and decide which doctor is right for you or your loved one.
- Allergy & Immunology
- Bariatric Medicine
- Cardiology
- Dermatology
- Endocrinology
- Family Medicine
- Gastroenterology
- Geriatric Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Oncology & Hematology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedic Surgery
- Otolarynology
- Pediatrics
- Physical Medicine
- Plastic Reconstructive Surgery
- Podiatry
- Psychiatry
- Pulmonary Medicine
- Radiology
- Rheumatology
- Surgery: Colorectal
- Surgery: General
- Surgery: Thoracic
- Urology
Reader Comments:
I had the opportunity to work with one of the best Orthopedic Surgeons and therefore without reservation reccomend
Dr. John Keggi from Waterbury for the title.
At the same time, I can not understand why the specialty of Anesthesiology is NOT included on your list. Only ignorant people today have no idea how vital is the role of Anesthesiologist in patient care today. Or, maybe I am wrong!
Anesthesiologists are just those physicians who keep our patients alive, and take care of any, and all problems, when everybody else has no idea what to do. They are highly trained and skilled physicians with enormous amount of knowledge that spans across all other specialities and patient age groups. No other specialty can claim that. Yet we often forget that they exist, because they are not fame seeking kind, they work "quietly behind the curten" and accept good patient outcomes as the only reword. Just immagine having surgery without anesthesia.....!
Editor's Note: We haven't included anesthesiologists because Top Docs is foremost a guide for consumers, a patients almost without exception do not choose their own anesthesiologists.
Dr. Jef Sanderson, general and vascular surgeon in New Milford.
one can choose your anesthesiologist.If a patient requests one particular anesthesiologist he has the right to get him.