I work for a doctor and sometimes when patients come in and they tell us what another doctor has told them I just want to go shake the other doctor. I wish I could find a doctor as efficient at neuropathy study as the eye doctor I work for is in problems of the eye.

I have found, that some of the best doctors have no bedside manner, whatsoever. When my daughter was 2, she needed a orthopedic surgeon and Dr Haverbush was the best in his field, BUT, no bedside manner whatsoever and he would not speak to me, only my husband. If we had not been so limited in the field, I would have tried to find someone else.

I go to a group of doctors and on one visit, I once again had to describe my celiac symptoms and the doctor on this visit was one I had not seen before. He says to me, "Oh, my son has celiacs, he can't have barley!" At that point, I knew this man had no idea what he was talking about and that he had not even researched celiacs for his own son. How sad is that??????

It's up to us to be on top of us. It's not fair, but it's a fact of life.

Deb