Dr. Fleischman runs a small hormone practice in Stamford that treats both women and men. Care starts with a free 15 minute phone call, then a detailed health questionnaire filled in through the patient portal and an hour long first visit. A phlebotomist comes to your home or office to draw blood and collect urine or saliva samples, and those results shape a written plan given at a second visit. She leans hard on bioidentical hormones and offers pellets, injections, creams, capsules and vaginal treatment, with prescriptions filled at either a compounding pharmacy or a regular one. Her training is in anti-aging and functional medicine rather than gynecology, so plans come with food, sleep and stress advice alongside the hormones. Follow up is about six weeks in and then two to four times a year.
Dr. Fitz founded this very small consultation practice in December 2017 and works as a consultant rather than as a regular doctor. Patients are asked to keep their own primary care and full scope women's health provider, because the practice does not cover urgent care, obstetrics or surgery. The integrative and functional medicine first visit runs two hours, and patients submit a long health history and a three day food log beforehand. The stated preference is FDA approved estradiol patches and oral progesterone, with compounded formulas used only when a patient cannot tolerate a product or needs a dose or delivery method that is not made. Low dose topical testosterone gel or cream is prescribed for libido, and the practice says plainly that it will not use testosterone pellets because they push levels higher than is safe for women. Training was in integrative medicine under Andrew Weil in Arizona, and herbs and supplements are used alongside medicines, with an online dispensary for registered patients.
