For clinicians
Referring a patient
Dr. Mitchell Long accepts referrals across the full range of spine pathology, including the complex, revision and deformity cases that are harder to place. Six offices across Nassau and Suffolk mean most patients can be seen near home.
How to refer
Send the referral by fax or email, or call the office to arrange one. Written referral instructions will be published here shortly.
Call the officeReferrals
Cases actively welcomed
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Revision cases and patients whose previous surgery has not worked
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Adult deformity and degenerative scoliosis, including cases needing realignment
03
Spinal trauma and fracture management
04
Cervical myelopathy and multi-level degenerative disease
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Patients who want a second opinion before committing to an operation
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Routine degenerative disease — decompression and single-level fusion
Refer online
Send the booking details
Enough for the office to call the patient and arrange the appointment. The clinical summary, imaging and operative notes go by fax or email.
Refer a patient online
The office will call the patient to arrange the appointment. Send the clinical summary, imaging and operative notes by fax or email as above.
Please don’t include the clinical history here — send it by fax or email so it reaches the chart. For an urgent case, call (631) 600-9400.
Send
What to include
A brief clinical summary, the relevant imaging, and operative notes where the patient has had previous spine surgery. The operative notes are the single most useful item in a revision referral and the one most often missing.
Receive
What comes back
A consultation letter setting out the assessment, the imaging findings, and the plan — including where the recommendation is non-operative, which it frequently is.
Urgent presentations
Cauda equina syndrome, acute spinal cord compression, unstable fractures and suspected spinal infection with neurological signs need emergency assessment rather than a clinic pathway. Please direct these to an emergency department.
Refer a patient
Call the office to arrange a referral.
One number reaches the office for all six locations.
One number for all six offices