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How Did You Find The Right Doctor?


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The doctor that I have now is not particularly knowlegable about gluten issues and their relationship to other autoimmunie diseases. This is not new news to any of you, but I was just wondering that if any of you had conducted a search in your town for a new internist that was sensitive to these issues, just how you went about it. As I have a $2500 deductible insurance, I will be paying for the office visits and don't want to make mistakes that will be costly. The doctor I have now is nice enough, but he did the usual blood test, told me I was negative and I had to engage Enterolab to find out what I already suspected....that I am gluten intolerant (and that I carry a geneome that predisposes me to other autoimmune diseases also). When I have a check-up for other things, he asks me how things are going in relationship to my "stomach problems", but that is it. I think he thinks it is all in my head and if that is what I want to think, then so be it. It seems like the proverbial pat on the head from a young doctor to an older woman. I went to a very large clinic in my area and talked to a nurse and she said all of their interna medicine doctors are up on these issues and she gave me some sheets about all of them. Now I do not know which of them to pick. It would be nice if I could interview them before I actually paid them, wouldn't it? They would be working for me!!!!!! Barbara


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The doctor that I have now is not particularly knowlegable about gluten issues and their relationship to other autoimmunie diseases. This is not new news to any of you, but I was just wondering that if any of you had conducted a search in your town for a new internist that was sensitive to these issues, just how you went about it. As I have a $2500 deductible insurance, I will be paying for the office visits and don't want to make mistakes that will be costly. The doctor I have now is nice enough, but he did the usual blood test, told me I was negative and I had to engage Enterolab to find out what I already suspected....that I am gluten intolerant (and that I carry a geneome that predisposes me to other autoimmune diseases also). When I have a check-up for other things, he asks me how things are going in relationship to my "stomach problems", but that is it. I think he thinks it is all in my head and if that is what I want to think, then so be it. It seems like the proverbial pat on the head from a young doctor to an older woman. I went to a very large clinic in my area and talked to a nurse and she said all of their interna medicine doctors are up on these issues and she gave me some sheets about all of them. Now I do not know which of them to pick. It would be nice if I could interview them before I actually paid them, wouldn't it? They would be working for me!!!!!! Barbara

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