What Doug Does:
Did you know there are people who see smart doctors at great hospitals but they’re still sick, still struggling? They’re stuck in the medical system.
I help complex chronic illness clients to get unstuck so they can get their lives back.
Who Doug works with
I work with complex chronic illness clients — folks who’ve seen good doctors or lots of doctors but are still sick. I work with those who have rare diseases, complex conditions, or undiagnosed conditions.
If that’s you and you’re a prospective client who wants to see if your condition is a fit for my service, contact me.
Who Doug doesn’t
There are five areas in which I do not work:
Cancer
Primary Mental Illness
Primary Addiction
Dementia
Organ Transplantation
Why Work with Doug?
As the “Medical MacGyver,” My Personal Medical Consultant Service Helps Clients Find Hope, Answers, and Transform Their Health.
Change the Dynamic; Transform Your Health.
How Does Doug Help Complex Chronic Illness Clients?
People want to work with Doug because even after seeing smart doctors and calling in favors, they’re no closer to answers, to treatments, or to health.
They feel the medical system has failed them. And while they’re upset about it, the system seems OK with that failure.
If that is your situation…
What is the medical community’s Plan B for you?
Besides another referral, do they have one?
If the System is content to fail you, then what is your Plan B?
Doug specializes in helping people get unstuck.
How does Doug help people get unstuck and get their lives back?
Time: Doug spends orders of magnitude more time on a client’s case than a doctor will. He reads and learns new things that he did not know when you met him to tackle your case. Doctors, on the other hand, rarely do homework on individual patients’ cases.
Tools: Doug uses the tools of a scientist and a journalist to help you tell your story, help you understand complex information, and help you find what’s been missing from your care up to this point.
Team: And Doug helps you find the doctors you need, get data you can rely on, and build partnerships where you and he work with those doctors together to get results that you haven’t gotten before.
How to work with Doug: Personal Medical Consulting
Doug’s bespoke, in-depth Personal Medical Consultant service is a year-long engagement. The package carries a six-figure fee, and Doug only takes a handful of clients per year.
If you’re a prospective client interested in learning more about whether you health situation might be a fit for the service, fill out the form below.
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If you’re not a prospective client for the year-long Personal Medical Consultant Service, Doug is listed on the INTRO App for advocacy advice.
If you’re interested in Doug as a Keynote Speaker or are from a media organization, message here:
If you are looking for insights or new tactics and strategies in dealing with doctors or the medical system, Doug has a free, periodic newsletter on Substack. Sign up here and browse past posts.
A Dozen Years, a World of Difference, A Dream Come True
Two media stories on Doug’s illness and recovery show how the dream that Doug worked towards came true.
Early 2010: Bedbound, when the surgery was still an idea.
Doug is depicted falling through the air like Don Draper from the TV show MADMEN, being dragged down by an amorphous blob of illness. Yet there’s a glimmer of hope: a bow tying the illness to Doug. Can it be untied? The headline reads “Is there a doctor in the house? Confined to his home for a decade, Doug Lindsay is certain he knows what ails him, and he thinks he knows the cure.”
Early 2022: Years of health prove the dream has become reality for all to see.
Doug is on the 24th floor rooftop of a luxury apartment tower posing for a spread in PEOPLE Magazine by jumping on a trampoline to depict his recovery from over a decade of illness. The headline: “I Had to Heal Myself. A rare disease left Doug Lindsay bedridden for more than a decade. Doctors offered no answers – and no hope. So he became his own researcher, scientist, and surgical pioneer.”
Relying on Hope, Science and Faith, Doug Got His Life Back. He Can Help You Too.
Doug Can Help You Get Back to the Life You Were Meant to Live, and to the Person You Were Meant to be.
Doug's Journey
When CNN summed up Doug’s life as a headline it read “This college dropout was bedridden for 11 years. Then he invented a surgery and cured himself.”
Of course, once better Doug went back to school and finished his degree. Now, he helps others with rare, complex, or undiagnosed illnesses.
If you want to learn more about Doug’s story, this article was CNN’s top online story of the year:
Learn More about Doug
“Hope is the Belief That Something Positive Can Happen. So, All Problem-Solving Begins with Hope.
And if There’s a Way to Do Something, There’s a Way to Do It Better.”
When I realized the medical system didn’t have a plan for me or my family, I made one for us.
I have two questions for you:
1: What do you do when you get a diagnosis?
2: What one thing could you change to be better heard by your doctors?
Watch Doug address these topics at this panel discussion: