Arthur not a Shamal On one of my new patient visits recently, a woman who was a vice president of a local company asked me, "Why do you measure a fasting cortisol?" I looked up at her smiling, "You'll see." She was not happy with my answer, "Well, I think that's a strange test to order. It's just a stress hormone." Many different responses ran through my head during the moment of silence that followed her snappy reply. However, I chose to take the high ground and decided to continue on in my...
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