I met a guy the other day that flies to some resort town in Mexico to have his dental implants done. He cant afford to have it done here anymore. I asked about the quality of the work and he said it's state of the art. I read that there is a huge overseas industry of super affordable top notch hospitals attracting budget clients from all over the world in places like India and Thailand where you receive pampered care for a fraction of the prohibitive costs of having it done here. Many people are delivered to beautiful resorts to recuperate after a surgery and the savings are so substantial that it can still be far less expensive to fly half way around the globe to have these procedures with better outcomes than to have them done here. Enormous numbers of Americans die just from viruses they picked up in our hospitals while receiving treatments.

I have spent the last month trying to find yet another MD willing to order a very respected micro nutrient test that is supposed to give the most accurate results for things including B12 levels. The same tests adopted in Japan, Sweden, Finland and many other forward thinking and healthier countries than ours. I just saw a new doctor who wont even look at the downloaded brochure I tried to show him. I said it would mean a lot to me if he'd look at it and he said there was no chance. I live in Sonoma County California and you'd think I could find one MD with a good reputation forward thinking enough that is open to reasonable suggestions.

When I moved here a few years ago my first Doctor said I had liver disease so I went to a specialist to find out my liver was normal so I switched doctors who said I needed a CT scan for a sore neck I was complaining of. He said that the scan revealed a swollen lymph node in my neck and instructed me to see an associate in his medical group to surgically remove it for observation. I went to an E.N.T. specialist for a 2nd opinion who looked at the CT scan imagery and reported my lymph nodes were completely normal.

There is so much fraud it's impossible to know who to trust. I recently went to another doctor who said I had liver disease so he could send me through his referral mill so again I got a 2nd opinion finding nothing wrong. Yesterday I tried a fourth doctor from the same group as the first two who gave me a hard time regarding his associates. I shared with him my alarm at the intensity of my symptoms and my desire to find the source of my neuropathy as quickly as possible to see if a way could be found to arrest it. Being that my A1C was 5.2 he concluded that it might be unrelated to my type 2 diabetes.

After doing on line research I recently learned about medications that can contribute to neuropathies so I asked him about it reminding him I was on Metformin and Lansoprazole (a strong prescription antacid) and that my stomach acid levels could be reduced to a point where intrinsic factor might only be grabbing 10% of the B12 I was ingesting wich might be a contributor. He agreed it was possible and said he'd order the standard outdated serum test. It's like these jokers are doing everything not to help me. If all this nonsense is happening to me then you know it's a common practice.

No other doctors over the past 5 years of my neuropathy ever put it together that those drugs could have been the cause or a significant contributer in my protracted nerve damage even though it was common knowledge that these drugs are known to be major contributers. When these guys graduate do they forget critical thinking? I know these guys aren't all morons or are they?

I went to the trouble of printing him a color brochure for the lab bu he wouldn't even look at the brochure. He said if he accepted the brochure he'd discard it unread. I explained that it is the same test being done in other first world countries and the only lab in the USA that is equipped to do this test. I think it would serve patients if their doctors routinely had required mental evaluations. It doesn't matter that I'm going through hell. He is void of empathy and instead of giving me his assurance he'll do everything to get to the source of my dilemma ASAP he stands his ground and orders the half hearted serum B12 test and says he'll see me in 2 months.

So here I am trying to find yet another doctor. I have spent countless hours trying to find well reviewed doctors on Healthgrades and other Doctor rating sites. A lot of the reviews I read are exceptionally well composed and makes me wonder if doctors hire marketing agencies to place fake reviews on these websites. All of the duds I've seen had the highest ratings.

If half the doctors are good I wonder what part of the country would they be hiding in because I'm trying my best and not finding them here.

Thanks a lot!