Good doctors

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Hi ,

My baby's doctor is Dr.Balachandra at the Morton health clinic in Tulsa, OK. He

is a great doctor, very concerned, and respectfull of our decision not to

vaccinate.

Jessi Moreland

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One of my DEAR doctors lost his license too

>for treating people with Armour thyroid. He was an absolute dear,

>and had no patient complaints, but lost his license all the same.

For using amour thyroid??!! I've been on this for years!! This is too

much. If doc is at all forward thinking, she/he can get in trouble with

traditional medical community and literally get blackballed! Like my Lyme

doc!

> " Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time

>will come when medicine will organize into an undercover

>dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to one class of

>man and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the

>Bastille of medical science. .. The constitution of the republic

>should make special provision for medical freedom as well as

>religious freedom. "

> Dr. Rush, Surgeon-General of Washington's

> armies and signer of the Declaration of Independence (l787)

Yes, this is approtriate and especially pertains to people like us!

>> >I have chest pain most of the time (supposedly costochondritis)

>>

>> Costochondritis is associated with autoimmune disease such as

>> lupus. Have

>> you had ongoing evaluation for these diseases?

>

>No. And I've been asking to be tested for about 3 years now.

>The really STUPID thing is that I've already had one autoimmune

>disease (ovarian antibodies) and I KNOW that having one autoimmune

>disease makes you WAY more likely to develop another autoimmune

>disease, and all my docs agree that this is true, but they refuse

>to order any tests!!! Sheesh, sometimes I get so frustrated I

>could just scream!!

YOu really need another opinion, preferably with a RHeum who treats

autoimmune disease.

There are too many of us dx'ed with CFIDS and turn out having something

else! PLEASE try to get 2nd opinion.

>That used to happen to me until I got on Armour thyroid. Sounds

>gross, but had mucous so thick and sticky that one doc wanted to

>have me tested for cystic fibrosis (year round).

I wonder how the Amour helped??

>I bet most of us can diagnose better, and think better (even WITH

>brain fog) than most of the medical dictators.

>Dr. Patti DRM (dr of REAL medicine)

And Dr Christie is in total agreement!

~The best diagnostic tool is the patient's word.~

[Guest guest]

> One of my DEAR doctors lost his license too

> >for treating people with Armour thyroid. He was an absolute dear,

> >and had no patient complaints, but lost his license all the same.

>

> For using amour thyroid??!!

Yes. And that was ALL he lost his license for! Armour thyroid

is under attack, esp. in Colorado. Lots of docs running scared.

The doc that lost his license was not in a group of docs.

Immediately after this happened docs ran to form groups to protect

themselves. My poor doc lost everything. He was near retirement

and him and his wife lost their home, all their savings and

retirement and are living on charity now. Its a tragic story.

They had tons of studies to support their position

and all those that got to hear the hearings (including the lawyers)

thought they would win, but the medical board of Colorado still

took away his license. They did say that he could continue to

practice medicine if he never prescribed Armour thyroid again!!!

He refused. Thought they would win on the overwhelming evidence

but lost. We definitely have a medical dictatorship in Colorado!

> I've been on this for years!!

I don't think the govt will move to actually make Armour illegal,

they will just persecute docs who prescribe one by one and

effectively remove it from use.

> This is too

> much. If doc is at all forward thinking, she/he can get in

> trouble with

> traditional medical community and literally get blackballed!

> Like my Lyme

> doc!

They really have a fine line to walk - the good ones at least.

> YOu really need another opinion, preferably with a RHeum who treats

> autoimmune disease.

> There are too many of us dx'ed with CFIDS and turn out having

> something

> else! PLEASE try to get 2nd opinion.

Oh, I hate to count up all the docs I've been to that have refused

this testing. I basically gave up until about a month ago when

I heard about a rheum in Denver that uses long term ABX and

alpha interferon. My hope is that if he is open enought to do these

therapies, he will be open to other things, like testing me for

other autoantibodies and maybe hypercoag, as well. My appt is

on Oct 13, so will be interesting to see what happens.

> >That used to happen to me until I got on Armour thyroid. Sounds

> >gross, but had mucous so thick and sticky that one doc wanted to

> >have me tested for cystic fibrosis (year round).

>

> I wonder how the Amour helped??

This is basically answered in the book " Hypothyroidism: The

Unsuspected Illness " by Dr. Broda

Patti

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[Guest guest]

Carolyn

You are so lucky to have such great doctor's. My LLMD also knows what is

going on and believes in treating the patient, but I can tell he is a little

apprehensive. But still he treats me according to what he thinks I need. I

too am lucky to have him. He signed my petition and the office offered to

keep it and get other patients to sign it. Really it can cover more than

just what is happening with Lyme Disease. It really says, let the doctor's

treat and not the insurance companies.

Thanks for all your kind words and support.

Carolyn, the only reason I thought there might be anger, is because so many

Lyme patients get misdiagnosed with Fibromyalgia, when in fact Lyme Disease

can cause FM. FM isn't really a disease but a collection of symtpoms and

only makes treating Lyme Disease all that much harder. But as long as your

LLMD still treats the LD and FM simultaneously, that's good. Just so many

doctor's write all the symptoms off to FM and forget the LD, and that angers

people. And I don't blame them. I just hope and pray everyone has good

doctor's like ours. Unforunately, not everyone does.

EVERYONE, Have calm, unpainful, and healthy holidays! I have so much to do,

that I'm not going to be checking my mail as often. But if anyone needs

something they think I can help with, just mark the message Urgent and I'll

get it. Take care all

Vicki, Md

>From: skidrowe@...

>

>Vicki F,

>

>Thank you for your wise words today. There is no anger, why should

>there be?! .....

>Anyway, my visit to the doc today. This is a woman who had only dealt

>with early stage lyme patients (I don't know how many). I am her first

>chronic case. ....

>Anyway, I took a copy of Barbara's post with me for her use and she

>scanned it and said that it was basically what she found out in HER OWN

>RESEARCH!!!! This woman has been studying for ME!! >

>What a woman this doctor is! My God!!! The tears are flowing!!! She's

already

>starting to sound like an expert. .... Her priorities lie where a doctor's

should...

>with their patient!

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Peggy

Great idea. Of all the many doctors I have seen over

the years I would only recommend one to the list. The

list could save people so much heartache and

frustration by going straight to the best in their

area.

Regards

Jan

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I just returned from a great experience with my primary care Physician. His name

is Dr. Naheem Tahir-kheli, with the Family Medical Clinic at San Joaquin General

Hospital. He currently does not much about CMT, but he is willing to learn and

his bedside manner is wonderful. If we help educate the medical community about

CMT, then they will be better able to help us. Please contribute your " good "

doctor stories.

Nina in Stockton

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The first time I visited my internist (about 3 years ago) I told her that I had

CMT. She was honest with me about not having heard of it before but she was

genuinely interested in hearing more about it. Betwen my first and second

visits she had done a lot of research on CMT, printed it out and put it in my

chart.

>

> I just returned from a great experience with my primary care Physician. His

name is Dr. Naheem Tahir-kheli, with the Family Medical Clinic at San Joaquin

General Hospital. He currently does not much about CMT, but he is willing to

learn and his bedside manner is wonderful. If we help educate the medical

community about CMT, then they will be better able to help us. Please contribute

your " good " doctor stories.

>

> Nina in Stockton

>

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My son's pediatrician is wonderful. He is actually familiar with CMT and

caught it right away when we brought in for a physical and asked him

about his feet. He has been wonderful meeting with me and answering

questions, getting me doctors reports from the specialists and recommending

who to go and see for different related things. Dr Alan at the

summit medical group!

lori

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rayannina

Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:33 PM

Subject: Good doctors

I just returned from a great experience with my primary care Physician. His

name is Dr. Naheem Tahir-kheli, with the Family Medical Clinic at San

Joaquin General Hospital. He currently does not much about CMT, but he is

willing to learn and his bedside manner is wonderful. If we help educate the

medical community about CMT, then they will be better able to help us.

Please contribute your " good " doctor stories.

Nina in Stockton