Expert: JM Starkman, MD - 7/21/2009

Question
I recently posted a question to you & requested that it be "private" -  For my own personal reasons, I did NOT want it public.  This site did say I could request that.  While my question may seem general to YOU, and your answer would definitely benefit others, why was my request not honored ? (I hope this isn't another example of doctors ignoring patient requests, which was one of the main points of my letter !)

Answer
Because the question seemed "general to [me], and [my] answer would definitely benefit others".  

You're welcome.  By the way, I hope no one on this 'help' site asking questions of physicians considers any of these experts "their" physician---this would be a substantial error:  there is no patient-physician relationship implied or established here!

If such a patient-physician relationship IS desired the world-wide-web is not the place to do it for what I hope are obvious reasons.