1. Receiving such intensive medical therapy is highly unusual, allergists said.

2. Conventional allergists use skin tests to confirm the diagnosis, not to make it.

3. In my view, the allergist should have hospital privleges.

4. Around 5:30pm, my allergist says that I am too sick and must be admitted to hospital for continuous observation.

5. First thing in the morning, I call my allergist’s office. My allergist’s nurse returns my call around 2pm.

6. My allergist and his nurse do not take my medical history.

7. 90 minutes pass before the ambulance arrives. My allergist spends the intervening time preparing a four page memorandum giving my medical history, my current condition[http://], and a treatment plan.

8. My allergist then entrusts this information to the ambulance attendant.

9. An allergist advised us to temporarily eliminate wheat, dairy, chicken, fish, pork, beef and eggs from Alex’s diet.

10. Although this man thinks the allergist’s note was a message from Jehovah, it’s not likely that the information in it was that unique of valuable.

11. The allergist, assuming he is a graduate of an approved program, and board certified or eligable, was the most qualified person to manage your care.

12. Allergist Bruce Wolf says this year has been especially bad.

13. An allergist can help identify your triggers and develop a treatment plan. Find one at aaaai.org/physref.

14. The nurse who escorts me into urgent care asks me for my doctor’s name. I tell her my allergist’s name.

15. Skin solution: If you can’t stop rubbing your eyes, see an allergist to diagnose and treat symptoms.

16. [reply to Dr. Caldwell] The first person with whom I discussed the issues was my (board certified) allergist and immunologist.

17. I interviewed medical professionals, healthcare IT experts, and my allergist. They confirmed my sickbed analysis.

18. People at high risk for flu complications may be able to work with an allergist to be desensitized so they tolerate the vaccine.

19. Two hours - a 104 degree fever, a not-working-so-well emergency asthma treatment regimen, and a tortured conversation with my then very concerned allergist - later, and I was on my way to urgent care.

20. It’s especially problematic for women, says Luz Fonacier, an allergist who presented at the conference.

21. For best effects, take allergy drugs at bedtime and asthma drugs in the late afternoon, a National Jewish Medical Center allergist advises.

22. "People in favour of various bans feel it is just easier to have the food eliminated, " says Scott Sicherer, an allergist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.