If you have the ability to discern a lack of respectability, why don't use that discernment and the mind that enabled it to educate and doctor yourself?
A few good books on the subject are all you need for a medical library.
I highly recommend Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox: How a Little-Known Vitamin Could Save Your Life by Kate Rheaume-Bleue and the writings of the late Dr. William D. Kelley, D.D.S., M.S., which are available from drkelley.net
there are direct primary care practices popping all over the pacific northwest, definitely in north idaho. not sure about other places - but that's the magic term. the business model is usually a monthly membership with donations. the goal is to be affordable and to actually serve the community.
The only thing you need from a respectable medic is ordering procedures and tests that you have convinced them are indicated and/or efficacious. Mine had no problem adding a 25(OH)D and hs-CRP to the CBC and metabolic panels he runs on me every year as a part of my Medicare physical. He doesn't really think much of vitamin D3, but he was very impressed with my consistent .4 on the hs-CRP three years running, which assures both of us that I don't have any significant inflammatory issues.
But how do you locate a respectable medic? Either you have to have a LOT of cash, or extremely good insurance, to pick and choose
If you have the ability to discern a lack of respectability, why don't use that discernment and the mind that enabled it to educate and doctor yourself?
A few good books on the subject are all you need for a medical library.
I highly recommend Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox: How a Little-Known Vitamin Could Save Your Life by Kate Rheaume-Bleue and the writings of the late Dr. William D. Kelley, D.D.S., M.S., which are available from drkelley.net
there are direct primary care practices popping all over the pacific northwest, definitely in north idaho. not sure about other places - but that's the magic term. the business model is usually a monthly membership with donations. the goal is to be affordable and to actually serve the community.
That sounds like what is called concierge medicine.
The only thing you need from a respectable medic is ordering procedures and tests that you have convinced them are indicated and/or efficacious. Mine had no problem adding a 25(OH)D and hs-CRP to the CBC and metabolic panels he runs on me every year as a part of my Medicare physical. He doesn't really think much of vitamin D3, but he was very impressed with my consistent .4 on the hs-CRP three years running, which assures both of us that I don't have any significant inflammatory issues.
Ulta Lab Tests is available in some places in the USA, so you may not even need to use a doctor to get those labs.
I'll still need the doctor to tell me what he learns from them and learned about them in medical school.
Are Ulta Lab Tests paid for by Medicare, as all of mine are, and do they have a collection facility in Cody, Wyoming and Quartzsite, Arizona?
Here's an option for a way to start searching:
https://aapsonline.org/