After listening to all of the symptoms and history and asking a few questions, he tells me that the problem is that the lining of my intestines is not 100% and is allowing absorbtion from my intestines to my bloodstream of foreign substances. He tells me that gastroenterologists are only interested in the structure of the GI system and not in the function, something that I could have told him from my long experience. He doesn’t know of anyone in Sydney who is working in that area.

He told me and my wife that we would have to search out someone, possibly a researcher rather than a physician, who is interested in intestinal permeability. We may have to go to the United States or Germany to find someone. I also noted that he said that we would have to do that searching, he didn’t offer to do it himself, nor did he say that Dr L would do that for me. It has been my experience over many years that doctors just sell brief “consultations”; not one has ever taken on the responsibility of finding the cause of my health problems; not one has ever taken on the responsibility of project managing the investigation.

Over the last eightteen years, a couple of naturopaths and at least one doctor have raised the possibilty of intestinal permeability but not one them have offered any possible cause or treatment.

Does anyone know of any physician, pathologist or researcher, preferably in the Sydney area, who is interested in and working in the area of intestinal permeability?

Over the last eighteen years, I’ve seen plenty of alternate health practitioners. They don’t have the technical knowledge or access to technology to determine the underlying cause of my health problems. They all just prescribe their particular treatments to whoever walks through the door.

I’ll go and see this Dr M but I’m not expecting too much. I really need to find a physician or pathologist, preferably in Sydney, who’s not stuck in the current medical business paradigm.

I also asked him yet again to find me a doctor who could determine the cause of my long-term health problems. So far, everyone I’ve seen just sells their particular “consultation” but I’ve not yet met any doctor with any real problem-solving skills or any desire to use them. He doesn’t hold out much hope of me ever finding the right doctor.

“The smears consist of admixed blood and histiocytes with scattered small aggregates of morphologically unremarkable follicular epithelial cells as well as a small amount of thick colloid. The overall appearances are in keeping with the presence of degenerative changes. Although the material is paucicellular there are no definite atypical features.
Diagnosis: Degerative changes; favour benign follicular pattern (Bethesda Category 2)”

So, three biopsies of the same thyroid, three different results. How can you trust them?

What do I have to do to get someone in the medical profession to do the job that they’re being paid to do?