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How lucky you are, Paul. I went to Norton's Hospital ER here in Louisville, and I just happen to have the address & the Dr.'so name: Dr. Tara Odle Norton Hospital Emergency Department 200 I Chestnut St. Louisville, KY 40202 (502)629-7200 With my connective tissue disorder, I'm really use to uppity Dr.s. I finally had to go to the Connective Tissue Disorder Clinic at Univ. of Cincinnati's Children's Hospital to see a Geneticist (is that spelled right?) that specialized in Marfan/Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes. Ehlers-Danlos (EDS) is so rare that I couldn't find a Dr. locally that knew much about it. After years of fatigue and joint pain (and misdiagnosis as bipolar), I was almost correctly diagnosed my a local Rhuematoloist. There are several subtypes of EDS. He diagnosed the EDS but put me in the wrong type. Unfortunately, once you have been hospitalized for depression or diagnosed as bipolar (or misdiagnosed, as the case may be), your credibility is shot. Norton's was were I was hospitalized many years ago, but it shows up on my records. I could tell that Dr. Odle was suspicious of my motives for going to the ER. She either thought I was pill seeking (which I get because I have chronic pain & have had to get pain meds there), or she thought I was having an anxiety attack. Or, she just may have been busy and distracted, and I am paranoid. But I know for sure that she was mistaken about PD never being unilateral no matter how many PD patients she had seen that were bilateral. So, I'm use to wrestling with Drs. While I am annoyed, I'm not too put out about her. I kind of expect it. For every one good Dr. out there, there are about 50 mediocre to bad ones. But if you are annoyed enough to write, go to it! It is frightening how uninformed some Drs. are (some I emphasize, my brother is a surgeon that I hope is well informed). Oh, and it also doesn't help that I'm a Medicare/Medicaid patient. Anyway, I'm too tired to fight that battle again, but I support and encourage those who do want to fight it. Thanks for the support! Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Ayers" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 4:23 PM Subject: Re: Intro From Mark > Mark, > Just to let youu know, my PD started on one side only. I wishh I knew the > Hosp you went to. I'd send them a letter. Healthh care "people" should > know what they are talking about. > > Hang in there, > > ===== > Paul Ayers PWP > Indianapolis, Indiana > [log in to unmask] > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more > http://games.yahoo.com/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn