if the doctor said to go to the er and you did. let the doctor know this and therefore you've done what he told you to do. he should order the mri. my step mother had extreme pain in her shoulder and because of insurance purposes it took a minute or two before the doctor ordered the mri. finally she's doing great after he gave her a shot in her shoulder. sometimes you have to keep at him!
can't get proper medical care. help! . husband having debilitation shoulder pain x-rays show nothing. just diagnosed with osteoperosis. the reason for test was mutiple fractured ribs they did not see on x-rays found those on mri. he's 38 has spinal stenosis degenerative disc disease. doc will not order mri for shoulder cause nothing on x-ray. we reminded doc they had to do mri to find rib fractures. doc told him if pain gets worse go to er; er said he needed to see doc. wtf! what specialist do we tell the doc to refer him too?