FAQ: Find a Doctor
Question: Where can I find a doctor who specializes in treating specific diseases or conditions?
Answer:
To find doctors who treat specific diseases or conditions, we suggest the following:
Web Sites
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Telephone Suggestions - Call:
- Your local county or state medical society for names of doctors and their specialties
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/7630.html
- A hospital for names of doctors who treat specific diseases or conditions
- Your doctor and ask for a recommendation to a specialist
- Your insurance provider for a list of approved doctors and specialists
You can also look in your local telephone book under "Physicians."
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Print Directories
- Print directories are often in public, university or medical libraries. Ask your local librarian for help. You could also call the NLM National Network of Libraries of Medicine® at 1-800-338-7657 to help you find a local library.
http://nnlm.gov/members/
Contact an Author of a Journal Article
Search
MEDLINE/PubMed, http://pubmed.gov, for current medical journal articles on a specific disease or condition. This can help you find researchers, hospitals and medical schools with certain specialties. Look for the author's contact information.
NOTE: the contact e-mail or mail address for an author may not be up to date.
- Search for the author name in PubMed® and look for the most recent article where your author is the first author.
- Choose the "Abstract" view under "Display."
- Look for the institution address under the list of author names. This is the affiliation of the primary author at the time the article went to press. Use a Web search engine to find the institution's Web page and look for a staff directory. Sometimes you may be able to find an e-mail address or phone number for a researcher.
- Open a full-text article, if possible. Some full-text articles will list the institutional address of each individual author. This list may also include a name and e-mail address of a designated "correspondent" for that article.
For more information about searching by author name, go to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=helppubmed&part=pubmedhelp#pubmedhelp.Searching_by_author .
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