I know I haven’t written here in a while. Really, it’s because I have been at somewhat of a stand-still as far as my control and treatment up until recently.
I was previously seeing a pediatrician who was great, but when I turned 18, he refused to see me as a diabetic patient anymore and referred me to an endocrinologist. Well, I made it almost 2 years without an endocrinologist until finally I no longer had anyone willing to write my prescriptions. I called up the practice I was referred to by my pediatrician and scheduled an appointment. It was a terrible experience. For a doctor known as one of the best (according to D-magazine), the guy could have given a [expletive removed] about providing quality care. Yeah, his nurse even told me he’s gone for a few months every year to go skiing. I was notified at the end of the appointment that I would receive my a1c result in a week. WHAT?? What kind of top rated endocrinologist doesn’t have an in-office a1c machine (i.e. a Bayer DCA2000)? Anyway, it didn’t take me long to decide I would not be coming back. Oh wait, maybe I had made up my mind when I found out that they “didn’t receive” the insurance information I faxed them and that they didn’t know how to authorize a pump supplies refill with Medtronic. I should also note that two doctors from this practice made it into the endocrinology section of “D Best”.
My search for a new endocrinologist began. I searched Google for a while until I found someone who had a pretty impressive background. His website noted that he has started more people on pumps than any other doctor in Texas. Wow! Turns out I was very lucky. I can’t say enough good things about the guy. I went to the appointment, he sat down with me for almost 1.5 hours and explained new treatments I could try along with recent developments in the diabetes world. Being a professor at UT Southwestern, he was very connected with current research. I left here with a Symlin pen, my a1c (which by the way was 6.0–only time will tell if the Symlin gets me back to the 5.5 I once had), and lots of new knowledge about current diabetes research.
Why am I posting this? Well I would have liked to find an article like this one when I searched Google for diabetes endocrinologist dallas. If you would like names of any of the people I have mentioned in this article, post a comment with a valid email. Put your email address in the “email” field (so that it won’t be published) and in the comment section just say you’d like the names of people mentioned here.
