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

Update: 2024-12-12

Description

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 Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause Sexmedmenopause.nm.org

Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause and a Senior Research Fellow of The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University. She is a certified menopause practitioner of The Menopause Society. She is the Medical Director of Community Education and Outreach for Midi Health.

Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, and has been seen on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, NPR, Dr. Radio, Nightline, Fox and Friends, The Steve Harvey Show, CBS This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. She is an expert source for many magazines and serves on the medical advisory board of The Kinsey Institute, Self Magazine, and Prevention Magazine. She writes a regular column for The Ethel by AARP and Prevention Magazine.

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Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information podcast is not intended to replace medical advice and should be used to supplement, not replace, care by your personal healthcare clinician. Dr. Streicher disclaims liability for any medical outcomes that may occur because of applying methods suggested or discussed in this podcast.