Rosacea Consulting Specialist Endeavor - anyone?

[rosiered]

In an earlier post, Dr. Nase wrote that he has been :
"5. Focusing quite a bit on my ever growing Rosacea Consulting Specialists endeavor. This has been very rewarding and succesful"

Anyone on this forum had a consultation with Dr. Nase? Is he licensed to do this? I would be interested to know if anyone has contacted Dr. Nase to set up an appointment, and what happened during the appointment.

Thanks

[rosaceaeurope]

don't take his statements too seriously..in his mind he's one of the most successful rosacea specialists ever to walk this earth..get the picture? he doesn't have a license..

[slippy]

He comes across to me like a spoilt kid who can't take a bit of negativity. Everyone has to learn to accept criticism in life, it's a common occurance.

Now he seems to be in hiding and after all his promises that made us extremely hopeful.

poor.

[rosiered]

I was asking a serious question. why was this moved to this section? What is the deal with this forum.? Why all this negativity?

[Sylvia66]

I also have a good question. Honestly, I don't mean to offend. But, is
Nase a 'real' doctor?

[IowaDavid]

This thread was moved to this section because by its subject it fits best here, rosiered.

To the best of my knowledge, Dr. Nase is not licensed to practice medicine. I think he can offer consultation advice, though, as it's not, technically, "practicing medicine". I'm not sure on this distinction, though, so if someone knows better, then please correct me.

I thought he was talking about something like a $100/hour consultation fee, which is an absurdly high price in my mind. But, if you're desperate and can't read things off the internet, then it may be worth it.


David

[Bob Bear]

Sylvia,

Geoffrey is a medical PhD. So yes he is a doctor, but NOT an MD. He cant prescribe drugs or provide offical diagnosis, but he can consult with patients and use his knowledge to recommend treatment protocols, which then need to be administered and monitored by the MD.

I know he did a few free consults, but Im not sure about his commerical venture yet. He tells me that its going very well though, so I guess there will be some testimonials on his site in the future.


rosiered,

Dont worry about it, not your fault. There has been some shit lately on this forum, and threads like this have tended to end in world war. Your question is a valid one, but its probably better to address Dr Nase personally as he is the only person who can give you a proper answer.

BB

[Sylvia66]

Thanks for the heads-up, guys.

[MARPUSBEAN]

I think the problem that Geoffrey has is that in the strictly official way of doing things his qualifications would eminently allow him to be a consultant, but that would be a consultant to a medical professional, such as the proposed relationship with Dr. Darm.
He was criticised for this, but in theory this is the proper route, it remains for him a grey area.
Of course he can give advice in a book, on his web site, in a forum.
Here in the UK if he set up as a Rosacea expert and offered paid services to the public, it would be unlicensed rather as some other alternative medicine people do, but of course not prescribe drugs just advise people what to ask for!
With his qualifications, he could also, work in partnership with medical people.
Faced with this problem, and if the guy wants to concentrate on rosacea, and make a living he might have to charge for the forum, and have partnerships with medical people and earn fees and retainers from such partnerships.
Thats why I treat any criticism of him concerning his attempts to make money from this with disdain, as long as the way he does it is transparent!!
If he has not got paid position at a University, how can he live except by selling books, and by other transparent ways of making money??
I want him to make a good living, and have time to help rosacea sufferers, because so few other professionals do.
Now we have many people charging very substantial amounts for laser and IPl treatments making many thousands of dollars per week, we need Geoff to help moniter pogresss and advances in these areas where we allready spend the money and expect so much!!

[slippy]

Yeah true,

Hope he comes back and keeps with his good work and ideas he provided us with instead of hiding away from the rebels.

[lafittevillage]

my take on it is medical PhDs research and MDs apply their research. of course you can say that by applying the research done by PhDs, MDs conduct their own test/trials, but it's still based on PhD research.

my hubby wants to do er medicine *knocks on wood* and that was some of his take on it.

i think what would make Dr.Nase an expert on rosacea is the fact that he spends time doing research and experiment on the field. i'd take his word (though with a grain of salt like everyone elses word) over MOST Derms I have seen because they just ditch out cavemen meds. like Metro/antibiotic for flushing --sorry, doesn't work.

[slippy]

I keep hearing he's only in this for the money and is using the Rosacea disease as a draw-string to attract 'blinded' victims?

I hope for our sake these are lies.

[rosiered]

Back to the original question... Has anyone actually had a consultation with Dr. Nase? What can you report? Was it worth the expense? Did you have to travel to where he lives? Does he have an office? How much time does he spend with people? He stated that he was spending much of his time in this area - wondering if anyone had anything to report.

[rosiered]

I am very surprised that no one on this forum has had a consultation with Dr. Nase - I will contact him via his website for more info - recommendations, etc. Oh well.