Should reader find a new physician?

DEAR DR. GOTT: My doctor has told me that I have lymphedema and should take a water pill. When the 20 milligrams wasn’t sufficient, she put me on 40 milligrams. Because I wanted to know more about my condition to better educate myself about things to do and not do, I looked online. It appeared to me that my doctor should be looking for the cause of the swelling, not just treating it. So I pressed her into doing more. She ordered a CT scan of my pelvis, a heart echo and a venous Doppler. My CT scan showed a lesion on my liver and no abnormalities of the kidneys. The Doppler was negative, and I don’t have the results of the echo, even though it was done more than a month ago. [Read more...]