Why You Need to Follow Your Doctor’s Advice After an Accident

After an accident occurs, one of the most important things you can do is visit your doctor, the hospital, or an urgent care facility. Doing so will ensure that your injuries are treated by a medical professional, while simultaneously providing you with proof of the origin and extent of your injuries. It is important to keep records of your doctor’s visits, medical bills, treatments, and follow-up appointments. But, simply visiting the doctor won’t be enough. You will have to make sure to follow your doctor’s advice. This can play a major role in your personal injury case. Read on to find out more.

The Importance of Following Your Doctor’s Advice:

  1. Your doctor is looking out for your best interests: Your doctor is an experienced medical professional. He or she wants to make sure that you recover successfully. You may roll your eyes when your doctor tells you to go light on a certain activity, or to regularly practice an activity to regain strength after an accident, but it is important that you take this advice.
  2. Your doctor can document and track your progress: Your doctor can determine a timeline for your recovery. Not only can your doctor track the time it takes for you to recover, but he or she can also physically see how your injury is healing. This means he or she will know if you are not taking the advice seriously.
  3. Improve the long-term outcome of your condition: Doctors’ advice is often aimed for the “long term.” This means that even if you are feeling okay now, you should not stop following your doctor’s advice. By ensuring you continue to take the advice, you can get better, and stay better in the long term.
  4. Following doctor’s orders may win you the compensation you need: Unfortunately, insurance companies will often do anything they can to deny you the compensation you need to heal. They may attempt to “prove” that you did not follow your doctor’s orders, and had you done so, you would have healed far sooner, and therefore, do not need or deserve financial compensation. Of course, this isn’t true, but from time to time, it works. That is why is it so important to carefully follow your doctor’s orders and have documentation that you followed those orders every step of the way.

If you or a loved one has been injured due to another party’s negligence, contact our firm today. We are here to help you recover the compensation you deserve.

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