<a href="http://www.expertclick.com/ProfilePage/default.cfm?GroupID=8296&SearchCriteria=geriatrics&Serial=19-2861">Robert Stall, MD</a> is an internist and fellowship-trained <a href="http://geridoc.net/geriatrician.html" target="_blank" >geriatrician</a> practicing, teaching, and consulting in the Buffalo, NY metropolitan area http://stallgeriatrics.com/rssfeeds/advice/DrStallAdvice.xml http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 9 Oct 2007 20:09:18 -0400 Tue, 2 Oct 2007 17:02:45 -0400 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) http://www.feedforall.com
Re: "...We are currently inquiring about a local doctor who claims to be a "geriatric" doctor. We wish to know if he is Board Certified and Board Qualified. Please respond..."

The following American Board of Medical Specialists web site (you must first register to use the directory) allows you to search for doctors in your area who have "Added Qualifications In Geriatric Medicine". Choose the "Search by Specialty/Location" tab and "Geriatric Medicine" in the "Area of Specialty" pulldown box:

http://www.abms.org/login.asp

Hope that helps.

Sincerely,

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Try the following Web sites:

http://wings.buffalo.edu/faculty/research/bioethics/case.html

http://wings.buffalo.edu/faculty/research/bioethics/legal.html

Also, contact the NYS Task Force on Life and the Law through the NYS Department of Health and try to get a copy of: "Life-Sustaining Treatment: Making Decisions and Appointing a Health Care Agent".

Hope that helps.

Sincerely,

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Try looking at the following:

Updated Key Principles of Geriatrics
http://geridoc.net/keyprinciplesofgeriatrics.html

On-Line Senior Self-Assessment – you can print a report from this to bring to the doctor
http://seniorselfassessment.com/

Finding a Geriatrician in Your Area
http://geridoc.net/advice-findingageriatrician.html

I hope that helps!

Sincerely,

Dr. Stall
From: sally
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 11:55 PM
To: drstall@buffalo.edu
Subject: Questions

Hello Dr. Stall,
    I was searching online for information on geriatric doctors and care and came across your article "Four Key Principles of Geriatric Care."  It caught my eye as I have been trying to figure out what to do about getting a second opinion for my mother.  She is 77, lives with my father ( a very difficult person), no longer drives and has had several issues develop over the last year.  Her motor skills - especially fine motor skills - have declined and randomly seem to be lacking.  She has some memory issues, but mosly just forgetting peoples names, spelling (this came on sort of suddenly) and sometimes forgetting where she puts things.  She has had a few episodes of completely spacing out for a few moments and then being fine.  She did go to a general MD, had an MRI, was told there was evidence of nerve damage, but then nothing showed up on all of the follow through tests.  The doctor then asked her some quick questions like naming animals, spelling a word frontwards and backwards and she was so nervous she couldn't do it.  (Her sister supposedly died of Alzheimers so she is scared of that diagnosis.)  The doctor she was seeing then told her she had Alzheimers and that was that.  My sisters and I and my mother feel like this isn't the final answer.  So I was wondering what you would suggest as far as type of doctor for a second opinion, and types of testing and information we should be asking about.  I would appreciate any information you could pass along to me.

Sincerely,
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