S3 Ep158: How to Find a Clinician Who is Not Clueless

An “MD” after the name is no assurance that the person to whom you are about to bare your soul—and your vagina—is an expert when it comes to menopause. 
In this episode, I am going to walk you through the steps to find someone you can trust to fix your flashes, foggy brain, and failing sex life.

Head over to Substack.com/@DrStreicher for a transcript of the episode, and bonus!  I posted an article with specific questions to ask during a menopause consultation (and answers you might get) that will let you know if you can trust this person to help you manage your menopause. 

• If Your Doctor Doesn’t Have a Vagina
• Specialists that may be menopause expertise
• Advanced practice nurses and physician assistants
• Why most doctors know very little about menopause
• What letters mean after a doctor’s name
• The difference between a license and board certification
• What it takes to maintain board certification
• What it means to be “double boarded” 
• Why Anti-Aging is not a recognized board certification
• What academic titles such as “Professor” indicate
• How I became a menopause expert
• What it means to be a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner
• Checking out publications
• Physician Referral services
• The problem with consumer referral sites
• Red flags to look for on doctor websites
• If you should educate your own doctor
• If concierge doctors are worth it
• Telehealth- and what to look for

Go to substack.com/@drstreicher  for my list of specific questions to ask   (and potential answers you might get ) that are pretty good indications that the person you are seeing is an actual expert. 


Links

• To verify that a physician is licensed

Federation of State Medical Boards website 

fsmb.org

• To verify that a physician is board certified

ABMS.org is the site where you can check out whether a physician is board-certified and find out what he or she is certified in. 

• To find a certified menopause practitioner

www.menopause.org.

• To see if your physician has published any scientific articles

NIH National Library of Science- Pubmed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

• Midi Health   www.Joinmidi.com

Midi Health is a telehealth company that provides high-level menopause care and takes insurance in all 50 states. Dr. Streicher is Midi’s Medical Director of Education and Community Outreach and is familiar with their medical protocols, which are all regularly updated and set by the top academic menopause experts in the country. 

• Major Medical Centers

It also may be helpful to check with major medical centers in your area. Many have menopause clinics or lists of doctors who have an interest and expertise in menopause. 

• The Northwestern Medicine