Can anyone recommend a good diabetologist or endocrinologist in NoVa? I've been trying to contact Northern VA Endocrinologists but they don't even return phone calls. Guess business must be good..

Dr. Safa in Vienna. He is top-notch. What he lacks in warmth, he more than makes up for it in excellent medical care. I've seen him for my thyroid issues and referred my mom to him for her issues. My boss sees Dr. Safa to manage her newly-diagnosed diabetes.

He saw me through a thyroid issue during my pregnancy and ended up being a great advocate for me!

Keep trying with Northern VA Endocrinologists...very worth it once you get in there! I've seen several in the area and they are by far the most knowledgeable and nicest to work with. Downside is getting appointments, they book up pretty fast but can usually squeeze you in if there is an urgent need.

I can't recommend Dr. Suzanne Rogacz (N. VA Endocrinologists) more highly. I have been going to her for more than 10 years. She is straightforward and no-nonsense, but she listens and is very kind. She saved my life and my son's life when I was pregnant.

NOVA girl Wrote:
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> I can't recommend Dr. Suzanne Rogacz (N. VA
> Endocrinologists) more highly. I have been going
> to her for more than 10 years. She is
> straightforward and no-nonsense, but she listens
> and is very kind. She saved my life and my son's
> life when I was pregnant.


I left Dr. Rogacz because she had such a terrible "bedside manner" and it was hard to get in. I switched to Dr. Tanen with Endocrine Associates in McLean and have been with him for the last several years. He is the best and super nice, as is all of the staff in his office. He personally ushers you in from the waiting area and personally calls you with any test results.

A legitimate question followed by multiple honest answers? This is an outrage! Aren't you people ashamed?

Dr. Tanen fan Wrote:
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> NOVA girl Wrote:
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> > I can't recommend Dr. Suzanne Rogacz (N. VA
> > Endocrinologists) more highly. I have been
> going
> > to her for more than 10 years. She is
> > straightforward and no-nonsense, but she
> listens
> > and is very kind. She saved my life and my
> son's
> > life when I was pregnant.
>
>
> I left Dr. Rogacz because she had such a terrible
> "bedside manner" and it was hard to get in. I
> switched to Dr. Tanen with Endocrine Associates in
> McLean and have been with him for the last several
> years. He is the best and super nice, as is all
> of the staff in his office. He personally ushers
> you in from the waiting area and personally calls
> you with any test results.


Tanen is excellent. We had to leave him due to insurance reasons, but he was fantastic for my wife for a decade.

Thanks so much for the recommendations

Lando in Reston. taskmaster but has good reputation

Cho in Alexandria last time I checked not accepting new patients but that was last year

and find a good opthamalogist specializing in retinal problems. they can be a bitch
first spot for most with diabetes were problems show up

cheap insulin at Walmart if you ain't got good insurance

I'd like to vouch for Dr. Tannen as well. I've been seeing him for the past 8 years for Type 1 diabetes. My Mom, Sister, and two neighbors all see him for thyroid issues. His office is super convenient to the Tyson's area and I always get in and out (bloodwork and all) in about 30-40 minutes.

Anyone know about Kathleen Link or Roy Langley on Arlington Blvd? Need to get a needle aspiration and want someone good.

I have heard good things about Dr. Bach and Dr. Huang.
http://www.endocrinologygroup.com

Took my ex-wife's son to Kathleen Link at NVE. She is excellent! She treated him from the time he was 1.5 yrs (when he was diagnosed) to the present (he's almost 16).

I too have heard Link is fine doctor. I think she's a pediatric endo

Langley is great. Tons of experience and gracious bedside manner.

Dr. Link is absolutely wonderful. She used to only do pediatrics not sure now that the office moved. I see adults in there but don't know if they are there for her or one of the other docs or waiting on a kid.

She's is mean and lacks bedside manners. I been going to her for years and I absolutely do not work well with her. I feel she does not listen to me and doesn't care.

I left Rogaz for Tannen as well. Rogoaz's staff was rude--Rogaz wanted to talk about her personal life--the parking was impossible--and half the time the elevators were out. Tannen and his staff are amazing. He is far more professional as is his staff and the management of the building they occupy. It is a little confusing to find his office in the maze of Tysons, but it is worth it.

Go to the candy bar counter at WalMart. Buy and eat ten a day. Your problems will soon be over. This bit of wisdom brought to you by the tree huggers at zero population growth.

code: Pu Tu no offense dude, but the universe is sending you a message

Does Safa return phone calls? I've had high blood glucose readings (diabetic Type 2) since discontinuing Victoza for financial reasons (fell in donut and Target charges $228/mo!!!). It's been over a week and my Endoc. hasn't responded to multiple calls/emails. BTW, anyone else on Victoza? Anyone discontinue and have sugars go high?

Dr. Janet Han: 703-531-2244. Part of INOVA, they will call you back.

I've seen most of the endocrinologists in the area. I'm at Northern VA Endocrinologists now, and it works. Dr. Tanen dismissed me, stating that since I was allergic to the only medication he ever tried that he could not help me. He knew coming in that I have extensive medication allergies, and I told him it might take several tries to find something that would work. He just didn't want to put in the effort.

buy american, made in usa.

don't go foreign w/o credentials from this country you can follow up on and be sure of

buy american it's like a fellow american buy your sack of junk work.

hoocoodanode Wrote:
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> I have heard good things about Dr. Bach and Dr.
> Huang.
> http://www.endocrinologygroup.com

Liked the practice but left it as I drove around for over an hour through three parking garages trying to find a place to park. Nobody is worth that.

Virginia Hospital Center overbuilt.

Avoid Dr. Bach-Huynh at all costs - not worth it. I made the mistake of seeing her whilst feeling incredibly ill. She attributed my poor glucose control to me "not understanding the basics of carb counting!" and all that jazz, despite being a type 1 diabetic with near perfect control throughout the 11 year course of my disease. A few weeks following my appointment with Dr. Bach, I was given a copy of her report of our meeting, basically statingI was well apart from severe derangement and disordered thinking, in almost those exact words. A month later I was diagnosed with neuropathy of my autonomic nervous system - including heart issues, gastroparesis, and decreased absorption of the insulin I had been taking after being unable to keep down food for 2 weeks and a severe systemic infection. I approached Dr. Bach for help at a time where I felt the most ill that I had ever felt in my life, and she deemed it was all in my head. Turns out it was due to diabetic complications instead, no surprise! Stay away, best go to a Doctor who cares for their patients enough to look into their patients issues instead of chalking them up to a mental disorder. :( Just felt I should get my story out there for other prospective patients who may stumble upon the name so that they may find proper treatment.

BUNCH OF FUCKING FOREIGNERS

if your not a foreigner they'll try to kill you, or say your illness is mental and suggest organ damaging pills. or suggest expensive crap you can't pay for that won't cure you: unless your a fucking foreigner

been there, done that: had more than one attack by fucking foreigner doctor

and can prove it.

how the hell did they get access to gov school loans at gov schools and loans for practices ? why are they getting gov health contract work?

"obama care" no doubt. the hate whitey government.

now where are the doctors who didn't get that shit and should have?

pGD6m Wrote:
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> BUNCH OF FUCKING FOREIGNERS
>
> if your not a foreigner they'll try to kill you,
> or say your illness is mental and suggest organ
> damaging pills. or suggest expensive crap you
> can't pay for that won't cure you: unless your a
> fucking foreigner
>
> been there, done that: had more than one attack by
> fucking foreigner doctor
>
> and can prove it.

Damn straight--go to your local First Nations shaman or stay home!

Srsly, WTF? You're clearly not a native English speaker, so why are you whingeing about foreigners?

i've been thinking i should get lab tests and do it myself

after years of medical insurance here is what i got:

0) medication/treatment after serious poisoning by someone in town (1990's)

1) check eye for metal (no, just scratched)

2) poisioned near death by doctor who ignored obvious signs and counter-indications, lied to judge about it

that's it! what a fucking waste of money i'd have done it better myself buying what lab equipment or mail-order-test-kits i could afford

fuck that. too much medical fraud. and now an onslought of doctors who need to profit "badly"

of course they billed shitloads for tests they ran - which i have no results of

but they MISSED OR COVERED UP a deadly disease while i was covered

total bullshit

get the fuck away from the microscopes and devices let me run my series

scratch the poisoning treatment - was when i was a minor (family insurance)

and i paid dental out of pocket (and had at one time a foreigner who intently gouged my teeth)

that's allot of insurance for what?

what DID they do for the money OTHER THAN INJURE ME?

Deontologists are not hard to come by but the original was Immanual Kant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontological_ethics

^ make sure you pronounce Immanual's name properly. Had a 8am Philosophy class that I was almost always hung over for and the professor would insist on using the German pronounciation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWNMtcVxa10

Curmudgeon Wrote:
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> Can anyone recommend a good diabetologist or
> endocrinologist in NoVa? I've been trying to
> contact Northern VA Endocrinologists but they
> don't even return phone calls. Guess business
> must be good..

i had one do a radioactive test on me (later finding out this has long term effects leading to death). this was after i was already diagnosed for the illness i came in for. very serious symptoms, very very high cholesterol for my age (though they might have missed something - like sugar levels or starvation?). my employer fired me the day i was ill though i said i was arranging to see a doctor for serious symptoms. actually it was partly all the overtime they promised i wouldn't have to work - but kept putting people on vacation insisting i'd be fired if i didn't pick up the hours. i was a union worker: union did nothing for me except replace me with a fucking foreigner. thought both mentioned were illegal! not in fx co.

said they "saw something", a possible spot they said, and was refrerred

i had an appointment with a GI guy which was for ? reviewing the refferral ?

i was double billed on my VISA. insurance never payed half though they'd already got the decutable - so in a way i was billed THREE TIMES

i tried to get the matter resolved they refused. i simply gave up due to many pressing factors in my life - they stole and got away with it - it was pretty close to the VA lottery buildign if i remember. i still have the card, dr re

oh i forgot a fucking foreigner doctor, without warning, did a damn ninja press on one of my organs that hurt like crap. i almost got up and beat his ass. asked him why. he said "i had to i was just checking an organ". i think he was lying to me. he later diagnosed cholesterol and massive fatigue.

end of story: i was fired for one day of reported illness though i saw a doctor and it was legit. i treated my own illness by diet - which i'd learned was way out of proportion (turns out an X dietitian had been constricting my diet - maybe to kill me or cause problems. i'd eaten healthy but hadn't realized how badly the partial diet (top of food pyramid only) at my age could impact me)

end of story: i had learned about proper diet, was surprised i was a victim of high level at my age, and fixed the diet myself

end of story:

i had already warned employer i was nursing an illness that too much overtime would be harmful - they SOUGHT to do it

while the doctor said this or that: i was ALREADY going to get more rest and watch my diet

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SUMMARY: payed many many times to get my health better: ends up they didn't do dick and i did it myself. i was insured - so there really wasn't an excuse for it - except the insurance company doing a cover up.

GUESS WHAT ? I HAD OTHER EPISODES WITH DOCTORS THAT LIED AND DID COVER UPS IN EVEN MORE SERIOUS SITUATIONS / PATENT CONDITIONS. BUT THE ABOVE IS SUFFICIENT "AS A STARTER".

(YES - THEY WERE FUCKING FOREIGNERS OR LAZY PSYCHS IN INSURED CARE COMPANIES)

oh back to the store. one manager girl was talking about becoming a "volunteer fire fighter". i said i wanted to as well, she said pretty impossible they only pick from students of college class and then still the picking tends to stay in the family

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so i go back a few years later to this american owned store. all the white managers - gone. a fucking foreigner. all the white staff: gone - only fucking foreingers

my union dues ? i want them fucking back don't you think ?

SO I PAY MANY TIMES ALL I GOT WAS ADVICE: HEY YOU SHOULD BE MORE HEALTH

YEA SHITHEAD TELL ME SOMETHIGN I DIDN'T KNOW

MEANING ... YEARS OF INSURANCE PAYMENTS NO TREATMENT - ONLY BACK TALK

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SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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I GO BACK TO IMAGING IN FAIRFAX LATER IN LIFE LOOKING FOR IMAGING my new insurer said they didn't have, thought maybe they should since i'd never fully followed on the that "maybe" situation

the fairfax imaging says: "we don't have your images or name on record - for $2,000 we can get them" (retake them)

!!!!!!!!!! fucking sons of bitches pumped my blood full of radium, billed like $2000, and don't have the images !!!!!!!!!!

i think what it was, was, they had said they found somethign and reffered to a particular doctor, but it was a scam - knowing it'd switched they decided it was safer to cover it up and say they "had no microsoft database of me"

funny. microsoft gov and medical. they never have a database if they owe you money. they always state they are fully certified and are redundant when they are billing you

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this one's easy

i smell: democrat sacks of shit

gimme gov funded med school, loans, insurance money back

i'll get my own fucking lab with like 1/2 the money, do it my fucking self

oh i forgot. so the new insurer - who billed allot never found anything wrong with my health ... (which whould cost them money) ...

says as a precaution they need to do scans. i say ok. they pump with with radiactive crap. i again (forgot to say before) ask if this is safe they say it's ok once in a while if necessary.

THEY FOUND NOTHING

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i later find out this scan causes serious problems in many patients and i've been pegged with it TWO TIMES - probably only for fruadulent purposes

I'VE BEEN POISOINED 2X FOR NOTHING (noting i'd already was on record for being poisoned near death - they could have avoided!! )

guess what. a harmless MRI was all that was needed in either case !!!

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i swear the local medical people have done more to try and kill me - than ever they did treat me - during all my adult years

Curmudgeon Wrote:
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> Can anyone recommend a good diabetologist or
> endocrinologist in NoVa? I've been trying to
> contact Northern VA Endocrinologists but they
> don't even return phone calls. Guess business
> must be good..


Stop doing the things you know cause it!
DUMB ASS!
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Curmudgeon Wrote:
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> Can anyone recommend a good diabetologist or
> endocrinologist in NoVa? I've been trying to
> contact Northern VA Endocrinologists but they
> don't even return phone calls. Guess business
> must be good..


GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS!
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the imaging people had lied like crap.

i knew any heavy metal in blood was unhealthy - never studied impacts of

i'd asked them they reported: oh this new equipment measures smaller ammounts than old equipment - it's safer

i later learn: if you can TASTE the metal in your blood (yea, you do) then it's enough to cause serious problems especially if you get it multiple times

that's a recent study OF THE NEWER EQUIPMENT - it's not good for you and can cause death later in life - has caused death in a good percent of people scanned. it'd been posted as a test to be done only in life saving situations: due to know side effects it can cause death

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that was only one case, although i had two or three. i'd been x-rayed for no reason - those situations i'm not discussing - but as i said - happened

the above i assume is from a local who posts poop articles daily and keep suggesting psych medication

as if. as if.

let me say when i say prove it in court: you'd best be able to support every degree of freedom in each bond angle, if you start with me

OH JUST ONE MORE OF MY FAVORITES of med care in fx co

i go to an insurance doctor with some symptoms. they are not mental illness symptoms according to, say, web md

she, the bitch doctor, insists i'm depressed and i need Prozac.

i say "nope - i'm perfectly happy and pretty resillient to depression. not depressed a bit !"

she continues to insist i must go on prozac. i walk out - saying she's not done anything to diagnose my (ie, upper/lower GI maladays)

(note - after news publicized it cuases suicide tendencies and organ failure, obsession leading to mass killings: the company Prozac began marketing the product to pets to cover their losses in the human market. hey: but it's good for people too. if your a sucker.)

(the Word Health Organization issued a warning in many parts of the world these "poison pills", the original of which were only intended for warded patients and was known to cause death, were being over prescribe for minor complaints - and were causing deaths and suicides. note the doctors and fx co know this. they are trying to kill you for a profit.)

WITHOUT DOING ANY LAB WORK !

mind you i had a good doctor, lead in field, once

he did lab tests and verified before any prescription - and kept doing the tests to watch levels

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a real doctor only uses that shit with lab tests. the others: total fraud

and for all the rest of the cases there were many error but i have to say this

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many labs were done in my life (few compared to others). they bill like $2000 each time they take blood. NEVER FOUND ANYTHING

BUT I HAVE PROBLEMS - WHICH ARE NOW A MATTER VISIBLE TO PLAIN EYESIGHT

mother fuckers in this area prescribe without labs, bill for labs, and cheat the labs, in my experience

that is my mileage - and i have plenty of proof it's exactly as i said

here's another favorite of mine

recently i had no visible GI symptoms

at gunpoint i was taken for "treatment" by fairfax democrats, seized from my home. they billed me for it to, those mother fuckers.

guess what? they found nothing wrong!

so after, at gunpoint and being forced fuckin foreigners physically to take a pills for > 30 days WITHOUT A TRIAL

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now i have visible GI symptoms that are definetly deadly

but it's ok! i had lab work recently done at gunpoint - and they say i'm clean

SO DON"T WORRY. your in fx co

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NEVER SAY IT CAN'T GET WORSE

so i later find out this x dietitian was burning 5-10lb of meat daily, then another 5-10 burned served...

was limiting diet to mostly oily meat and cheese - and veges, even bread, and esp fruit were very limited and only by "permission"

i later found out this dietitian, serving heart attack diet by authority, was pigging out long meals of healthy salads while no one else was home

which is likely why - i always wondered - the same person ate VERY LITTLE at these meals

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ah fairfax, i could tell you many sortid stories of what a friendly community this is !

i thought the overpriced medical community were all saints

why i never!

I recommend Dr. Janet Han, INOVA internal medicine, 703 531-2244

well i'm waiting for a recommendation on docs that cause damage, lie about it, and counties that skip both defense and court

please recommend someone !

Dr. Link is wonderfull and worth a wait if you can.
She mainly does pediatric endo though.

Dr. Link is great but only for pediatric care. My daughter was referred to her when she was 13 and we had a great re pore with her but the minute she turned 21 she dropped her as a patient. My husband and I were upset as she knew our history and didn't even refer us to another doctor.

"re pore"? To pore again? Ah, "rapport". English is fundamental...even when it's a French word.

Yeah, I'm being snarky. But you're apparently at least 35 (if you had the kid at 14!), should know better than to use words too big for you.

Especially here...