Overall she listened well, ordered blood work. But seems she’s following the results more than the symptoms / pictures.

Dr Lin was very thorough, very thoughtful and very nice! She took her time and answered all my questions.

Very nice and explain my different option of care

I appreciate that she was very attentive, patient, and willing to listen. She appeared to take very copious notes on everything I said. Her communication was excellent. I had high expectations going into the appointment, and they were all met.

Although Dr. Lin acknowledged that I was in pain, she kept suggesting that I take NSAIDS. I explained that I was anticoagulants and that that class of drugs was contraindicated with NSAIDS. She chose to nothing to help me manage the pain.

Dr. Lin is very nice, but she clearly didn’t know what to do with me other than go down a checklist and rule out a rheumatological disease. That is an important step for sure, but I have no diagnosis and absolutely horrid symptoms. She also didn’t know much about the condition I most likely have (hypermobile Ehlers Danlos, me and my physical therapist who specializes in it and my spouse have done all of the research and digging into my past medical history etc) and not only couldn’t diagnose me with it, she couldn’t point me in the direction of someone who actually can…she also didn’t realize that this type of EDS doesn’t have a known genetic marker, and kept saying I should see a geneticist, which may not be very helpful, and doesn’t help me manage the symptoms I’ve had for literal years and can’t function with currently. I’m in the office saying my quality of life is in the tubes, I’m unable to do most daily tasks, I’m using a shower chair because I have orthostatic intolerance, my heartrate is all over the place, I almost went to the ER last week for chronic pain…and the answer is just “well you don’t have lupus, unfortunately that’s really all I can do for you. Keep an eye out incase it develops since you do have that positive ANA result.� I’m sorry, what? Google has brought me more answers than this. Someone explain to me why zero doctors at this hospital can treat my medical condition.