Sunday Column

September 7, 2008 By

DEAR DR. GOTT:
I would like to tell you my story about how I wish I had gotten a general practitioner but instead opted for an internist because they supposedly know “everything”. What a mistake that was!

My doctor was marking time until his retirement at age 65 at which point I was “grandfathered” into a new doctor who bought the practice. My first doctor never gave me a complete physical. He just listened to my lungs and heart and depended on lab results to tell him “everything”. The second doctor did the same thing. Well, now I am on to a third doctor who is equally “incompetent”.

I don’t want to be a “doctor shopper” but when I tell them what’s wrong, they invariably ask me my age. Not one of my physicians has ever seen my legs, ankles or palpated my stomach but they still give me a diagnosis, [Read more...]

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September 6, 2008 By

DEAR DR. GOTT:
I am writing in regard to the letter from a lady who stated that after two weeks of using a certain brand of shampoo and conditioner her husband started growing his hair back quickly.

I had sincere doubts that a solution as simple as this could actually remedy baldness, especially after the eons of money and research that have been put into curing it.

Despite this, I decided to try it and the weekend after the article appeared I went to my local supermarket (in the suburb of a major city) and found that every bottle of that certain shampoo and conditioner was gone. The hole it left was rather large since that brand had a lot of self spaced allotted to it. I was surprised by this but then realized that your column is a great medium to plug products.

I am now of the conclusion that there was no lady [Read more...]

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