Medical care becomes expensive and frustrating when patients see multiple specialists and do not have a sensible, knowledgeable, and humane primary phy-sician. Drug therapy is not the only treatment of Sarcoidosis. Because it is a disease that mimics so many disorders, those afflicted with Sarcoid learn coping skills from these disorders that have comparable symptoms. Learning others have similar problems and sharing the frustration of dealing with them every day, individual patients can discern what will work for them. This challenge is met by those with Sarcoidosis every day.
Patients can no longer sit back and assume a health care professional has all the answers.