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You point out to the fact that the rank and file patient has to rely upon
sheer luck to have a good GP. When youe have one, he is close to retirement
or you have to move to a district where he is not allowed to practice.
I have not yet met the Doctor who would take the trouble to investigate and
build up a scientific diagnosis : uptil now, I have spent a lot of time in
various hospitals, but no one ever went beyond the set of tests which wuld
repond to their hypothesis. The result is a huge amount of drugs, which do
keep my temperature down, but make me more and more "disabled".

Is there a general way to advertise for finding out there in the health and
medical research market a Doctor who would work at your case till he finds
out an etiology and something like a therapy?

Never mind the fact that I live on another continent. There are GPs, health
insurances, hospitals and mailing lists this side of the Atlantic as well.
The problem is: how can an individual meet the right MD, does the internet
help?

Sylvia Murr <[log in to unmask]> Paris