The primary purpose of the phone or zoom consult is to help to understand if you would like to be a patient of the practice.  If you are local to the Portland area, we encourage you to skip this step and setup an office consult.  Most of our patents have complex issues, and it is difficult to impossible to come up with a comprehensive diagnosis and treatment plan from a phone or zoom consult alone.  We often provide useful information and may make some diagnostic judgements, but in the end we have to see you to get the full picture of what is going on. 

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In general, we reserve free phone consults for patients who have at least some interest in becoming patients of the practice. Due to time constraints, we may not be able to offer a free phone consult to a patient who will be unable to see us for reasons of insurance / distance / etc. Consults for international patients are done at a $300 case review / consult fee.  

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* In order to protect the limited time of our physicians, we have instituted a no-show policy.  At the time of scheduling your consult, we will record a credit card number.  If you are present for your free phone consult at the scheduled time, there is no fee for the consult.  If our doctors are unable to reach you or you are otherwise not available, we charge a $100 no-show fee to your card.  We do this because we have found that it is too often that interested people schedule a free consult and then are not able to speak at the scheduled time.