Dear Doctor Dysphoric:

As you may have noticed, I authorized several Consultants to post on Dear Doctor Dysphoric. These lucky physicians will comment on questions that fall within their particular area of interest. Or maybe they will write about other things. Afterall, Dear Doctor Dysphoric is a space for overly-trained medical folk to discuss medicine with the non-medical public. The exact subject under discussion may or may not fall within the traditional boundaries of academic medicine.

Like Dysphoric, Dr. Anhedonic is a General Internist here in Upper Manhattan. He also has a large pile of knowledge in the areas of clinical epidemiology and evidence based medicine.

Dr. Bugs and Drugs is our lovely Infectious Disease consultant. She is smart and beautiful (not that this matters...). She is out of the country at the moment. We eagerly await her first post.

I plan to solicit the advice of several other subspecialists, including: renal (kidney), cardiac (heart), pulmonary (lung), hematology (blood) and GYN (down there) for your questions as needed. For now, however, I am fighting an ugly black cloud. Stand by.... I may cycle up again some day. Above pic is of my consultant team. Oh? No? No, it is actually "Four Doctors," John Singer Sargent 1905. Sir William Osler (legendary Hopkins bedside clinician and medical educator) is second from right.