On Feb 15, 3:11 pm, neil0...@yahoo.com wrote:

Marla:
Sometimes I wonder if there is one A-hole ENT out there with a
thousand clones. An analog to John Campbell's hero of a thousand
faces, the a-hole ENT of a thousand faces.
If you like, you carry the torch and I'll carry the pitchfork
Anyone know the URL of the "rate your doctor website?"
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Anyway get to one of the ENTs over at McGill.
I know that it is not easy.  I have stormed out of some offices and
been escorted out of others when I showed up with a microscope and
samples.
This is the disease that drove Howard Hughes nuts.
After he froze his sinuses he became a recluse.
But we have a better chance now, thanks primarily to Bill Costerson,
and Palmer, who drove the biofilm research against all odds. So there
seriously IS help out there now.

Let me see, surgery works, as long as your follow-up only covers the
first year.
After three years, no so much.
And what were those other treatments that had been shown to be
effective in clinical trials?
As the Cockamiee Collaborative shows, if they don't like the results
of a clinical trial containing a
690 patients, they will throw it out in favor of one that contains 160
to come up with the "evidence based" that antibiotics don't work, when
the only antibiotic they considered was amox.
I was told by an ENT at Duke that allergy shots had been shown to work
in clinical trials. But when I read the trial he refered to,  it was a
patient satisfaction survey, not a double blind clinical trial at
all.

The insurance companies will pay if the physician fills out the prior
authorization requests.
My physician has to fill out a prior authorization every time that I
refill my Sporanox. He does it because, while it is a hassle, he is a
good ENT Doc and can see that it works.
So what your doc is basically saying is that he does not want to
bother with the prior authorization paperwork.