In a message dated 8/8/01 10:20:05 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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<< MY QUESTION - when you feel like you have given the docs their fair chance
to
 deal with your health issues and you are running out of energy,
 enthusiasm...and time...WHO IS THE BEST DOCTOR TO GO TO >>

Miriam,

clearly you have been through the endo-mill, as have many of us.

as far as docs to go to (and yes, keep looking!)

First, check out the "top docs" section of Mary Shomon's website
(www.thryoid.about.com);  there are several docs in southern california who
know how treat patients (not their lab slips), and know how to listen.

For my part (and i live just outside of Los Angeles), I travelled to Indiana
to see Dr. Donald Michael.  Last I checked, the fee for a new patient exam is
$750.00 -- but he spends 2-3 hours talking to you!  (try getting that
somewhere else).

he also orders a LOT of lab work for you -- but that's because, i think, he
looks at the "totality of the circumstances" and does not see people through
a narrow prism of one-gland-at-a-time per visit.

he knows how to listen; he has suffered from hypothyroidism himself, and is
acutely aware of the deficiencies in treating people that nonetheless
constitute the "state of the art" in endocrinology.  He is smart enough, and
brave enough, and compassionate enough, to treat YOU -- as opposed to your
lab slips.

Good luck.

Edward Reisman

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