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:
- - MedlinePlus® :
- Directories of doctors, dentists, hospitals and other healthcare professionals and facilities
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/directories.html - Choosing a Doctor or Health Care Service
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/choosingadoctororhealthcareservice.html - Managed Care
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/managedcare.html
- Directories of doctors, dentists, hospitals and other healthcare professionals and facilities
- NIH Word on Health: Choosing a Doctor
http://www.nih.gov/news/WordonHealth/apr2003/doctorchoosing.htm - American Board of Medical Specialties: Is Your Doctor Board Certified?
http://www.abms.org/Who_We_Help/Consumers/verifying.aspx - Docfinder: Association of State Medical Board Executive Directors
http://www.docboard.org/docfinder.html - Directory of State Medical Boards
http://www.fsmb.org/directory_smb.html - Medicare Participating Physician Directory
http://www.medicare.gov/find-a-doctor/provider-search.aspx
- 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."
- 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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