Medical specialists are doctors who have completed advanced education and clinical training in a specific area of medicine. A conventional medical specialist focuses on diagnosis and treatment of a particular organ or body system, a specific patient population, or a particular procedure.

Sometimes it may be difficult to determine the type of medical specialist needed to diagnose and treat a particular problem. For example, visual problems may be limited to abnormalities in the eye itself, but they may also be the result of a wide variety of causes, including diabetes, hardening of the arteries, a stroke, or a tumor in a part of the brain that controls vision.

Medical care of humans is a complicated task due to the many different organ systems that comprise the human body. Changes in one part of the system affect other parts, and no part of the system functions in isolation. Toward this end, Dr. Metzger is a different type of specialist: she evaluates the entire patient. This includes a comprehensive medical history that may not appear to be pertinent to the current symptoms, an inventory of every system in the body, assessment of mind/body relationships, hormones, diet, the immune system and social issues. Treatment is directed toward re-establishing a stable balance within the person.

Dr. Metzger has training and extensive experience in a wide variety of areas: gynecology (no obstetrics), reproductive endocrinology, infertility, chronic pelvic pain, endometriosis, Lyme disease, and integrative medicine. Thus, it is very likely that she has encountered your problem(s) before and can offer you treatment options.

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