I offered the information to my doc when she was talking about trying to impress the importance of airway clearance on all of her patients, and she immediately handed me her clinic email address.

We all need to remember that these docs can be hard to find because BE and NTM are rare conditions. I am fortunate to live in a population center of 4 million people with many teaching hospitals and well-established large multi-specialty clinical practices. But it took me six years of persistence to get to her.

@irenea8 I have found that there are many very good to great docs, but they get beaten down by "the system." This woman is irrepressible, and hasn't let it happen. It probably helps that she has been with the clinic long enough, and is popular enough with patients and all the other staff, that she gets a little more leeway. My pain doc is the same way - when she couldn't keep up with the rigors of primary practice, she "reinvented herself" by going back for more training in pain and geriatrics - on her own time & dime. I am about to meet my newest cardiologist (3rd this year) tomorrow and heard he is like this.🙏