Consultation with Dr. Baumbach

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Thanks, Fortitudine and Poncho for your replies.
I have posed these issues to my "medical resource," namely my physician/husband and what I have put together from his responses is that doctors here aren't paid to review records at length and that neurologists increasingly rely on MRI reports (not actually reading the films) whereas before MRI's, they were great thinkers and diagnosticians. My MRI reports do show pathology but emphasize the improvement from the initial, post-accident study--which these docs have interpreted to mean I no longer have significant spinal issues. Those are the "nice" conclusions--won't repeat the other comments from my husband, but you can imagine.
I feel fortunate that Dr. Baumbach is an "old-fashioned" neurologist in that he actually looked at the studies and films.