All too often Tact gets you no where

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I have brought AACE handbooks/treatment protocols to two seperate visits with

two

seperate endos. Neither one of them knew what the AACE was and they had never

heard

of the texts that I brought with me.

Of course going through medical school is tough and demanding, and they have to

cover a

huge amount of material in a relatively short time. As a result, they deserve

respect, but

so do I (and the rest of us with hypo) and all too often these doctors do not

act as

professionals nor are they current on the AACE treatment and diagnostic

protocols.

I once begged a female endo to put me on hcg. She refused because she said it

was only

for fertility treatment and that the medication was very expensive. I then

asked, let me

take hcg to see if i can become fertile. Again she refused, and put me on

androgel and

said that i just need to accept the fact that being a father will likely be out

of the question

for me.

Now fast forward and contrast this to when I met with Dr. Crowley and

Dr. Nellie

Pettiloude at Harvard Medical School/Boston General. I was a subject in a

research study

for male fertility problems due to hypogonadism with the idea of using a pump

similar to

those used by diabetics to release hGnRH hormone to get me to produce my own LH

and

FSH.

These two doctors and their research team were more than happy to discuss any

part of

the AACE manual with me, and they knew it inside and out. They were not

condesending

to me in anyway, and they were and are true experts on the cutting edge of

fertilty

treatments and other related hormonal treatments. I then did some research and

Dr.

Crowley is regarded by many as the Dean of reproductive endocrinology.

I had to pay to see the first two endo's and no one deserves to pay that much

for

incompetence and being treated rudely just becuase you bring an internationally

regarded

and accepted medical treatment protocol (AACE manual) to the appointment.

The fact that these first two endos have not read the AACE and similar treatment

and

diagnostic protocols while they pretend to be experts on TRT, is not about tact.

It is about

them admitting that they have not done their home work and that when their ego

and

desire to make money are bigger than their desire to learn, to stay current, and

to truely

treat patients with respect and compassion, they would welcome intelligent well

informed

questions based on widely accepted texts such as the AACE manual. If male TRT

and male

fertilty is not their forte, then just refer me to some one else instead of

taking my money

and giving me attitude.

Admitting that you haver never read the AACE is far better than giving smug

condesencing

answers to honest questions from a Paying Customer.

And in my own way i told the first two endos that they were fired