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

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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