I’ve questioned a Dan Doctor or two. They state they are fully in favor of double-blind crossover studies. But there is no time for such things with your child. They continue telling the parent they have seen the protocol work. Many are quite sincere.

The reaction of most parents is, let’s give it a shot.

The first Dan doctor wanted to user NAERT on our daughter. This concept was such ridiculous quackery that we never went back.

However we tried a couple of others and soon we in areas where we lacked the expertise to evaluate the claims.

It was the ineffectiveness of what we tried and our unwillingness to chelate which led us away. Though I still have thoughts that someday the DAN community will stumble onto something which will truly make a difference.

Yes, it’s a consumer mentality now—–my parents both worked in hospitals (neither are doctors) and they talked a lot about this shift.

@brstpathdoc, So my initial career plan as a kid was to get the MD behind my name; couldn’t get my mind around chemistry and physics in high school and that was that.

Maybe we can just start calling McCarthy…..”Dr. J.”

Interestingly enough the person who most recently got steamed at me for a request for details was not our pediatrician or my current GP, but a DAN practitioner who we were checking out a couple of years ago. I wasn’t intentionally trying to get under his skin. The level of questioning was not above that that I usually ask the doctor, (but I’d be the first to admit that I ask a lot of questions because I want to understand the prescribed treatments).

Having said that, I love my pediatrician, we have a great relationship, and I really trust her medical opinion. But she did have to earn my respect and I think that’s important.

On your second point, I do think people feel it’s on them to take things into their own hands, to research, to ask questions, to doubt; we’re in the era of personal responsibility for one’s health needs, it often feels? (do you think?)