<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> 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