Originally Posted by alice md

It takes an excellent physician to know when and how to treat a patient, it takes an outstanding physician to know when not to give treatment.

Originally Posted by alice md

I know that I myself, when I was referred to an MG expert, wanted him to tell me that this couldn't be MG and a few days of vacation is all which is required.
And this is exactly what he said. I had vague symptoms (at that time), a normal neurological examination and a history of similar symptoms years before, which turned out to be "nothing". He also suggested that he would do an EMG or that I could try taking mestinon, but I just asked him to write a letter to my endocrinologist telling him that this is not MG. And he gladly did that.