Should diagnostician be a medical specialty?

[nancylebov]

Here's an account of a doctor who specializes in difficult diagnoses. Note that he has to avoid insurance in order to spend enough time to find out enough--the article says that doctor's visits are down to 12 minutes. I was horrified enough when they went down to 15.

I'm surprised and/or horrified that celiac is still considered a difficult thing to diagnose.

I'm not surprised that, unlike Dr. House, this guy isn't obnoxious.

Comments

[fabricdragon.livejournal.com]

celiacs can actually be quite tough. not all the symptoms present the same, and final diagnoses has to be made by biopsy, and you have to have eaten wheat within 24 hours i think of the biopsy to be guarenteed a good answer..

so people who went wheat free and got good results, have to go back on wheat to be "confirmed" for a diagnoses..

read a book on it, its pretty miserable.

[chatworthy.livejournal.com]

Nor is he terribly expensive.

Were I a doctor, that's the way I'd do it.

Wonder if there's one in Phoenix?