It pays to be proactive when your health is concerned By Ana-María Fernández Adelante Contributor Sometimes things happen for reasons we don’t understand. This has been my case. What began as a pain in the back and all the way down the leg now turns out to be a fracture in a vertebra of my spinal column. Of course one goes to the doctor to get the best treatment. We also trust that those doctors, as they have studied so much, are the best in this field and they help us enormously. In my case, I have a doctor who is very intelligent and also listens well. But, also, nowadays doctors have the enormous responsibility of seeing a certain number of patients in a very limited time, which means that we the patients must be proactive when it comes to our health and the treatment that we should receive. In my case, when I went to the doctor, she took an X-ray in which the diagnosis was normal and she sent me to a physical therapist. During the following weeks, my pain increased and other complications appeared, so I returned to my primary doctor. More