SIDNEY M. BAKER, MD

I am a practicing physician with an interest in nutritional, biochemical and environmental aspects of chronic illness in adults and children.

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Early in my 50 years of caring for people seeking answer for chronic illnesses I found a way of listening that begins with a symptom checklist as part of a long questionnaire with a chronological record of illnesses and life events. Before meeting my patients, I have studied and sorted the checklist by frequency and severity. Our first conversation starts with a mutual grasp of the story with and then consider the options. This approach differs from the way I was trained in two ways. First, it respects the patient as a source of details and second, it considers details that are irrelevant to making a diagnosis but which may be game-changers in making a plan.