The effectiveness of any medical treatment is dependent upon first getting the right diagnosis. Far too many people each year are misdiagnosed and therefore receive the wrong treatment. To get correctly diagnosed, go to one of the top academic medical centers. There are many other fine academic medical centers not on the below list, but the ones listed below are highly rated.

New England:

Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston) http://www.massgeneral.org/about/awards.aspx

Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston) http://www.brighamandwomens.org/about_bwh/about_us.aspx

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center http://www.bidmc.org/

New York metropolitan area:

New York Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell (NYC) http://nyp.org/

Mount Sinai Medical Center (NYC) http://www.mountsinai.org/

New York University Langone Medical Center (NYC) http://www.med.nyu.edu/about-us

Mid-Atlantic states:

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) http://www.pennmedicine.org/hup/about/

The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore) http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/the_johns_hopkins_hospital/about/mission.html

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (Philadelphia) http://www.jeffersonhospital.org/

South:

Duke University Medical Center (Durham, N.C.) http://www.dukehealth.org/about_duke

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville) http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/about/

Texas Medical Center (Houston) http://texasmedicalcenter.org/all-institutions/

Midwest:

Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio) http://my.clevelandclinic.org/about-cleveland-clinic/overview/who-we-are/facts-figures.aspx

University Hospitals Case Medical Center (Cleveland)                                                                   http://www.uhhospitals.org/case

Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minnesota) http://www.mayoclinic.org/about/

Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University (St. Louis) http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/barnes-jewish-hospital-6630930#

University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers (Ann Arbor) http://www.uofmhealth.org/about+umhs

UPMC-University of Pittsburgh Medical Center http://www.upmc.com/about/why-upmc/Pages/default.aspx

Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago) http://www.nmh.org/nm/home

Indiana University Health (Indianapolis) http://iuhealth.org/

West Coast:

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles http://www.uclahealth.org/body_med.cfm?id=346

University of California, San Francisco Medical Center http://www.ucsf.edu/about/about-ucsf

University of Washington Medical Center (Seattle) http://uwmedicine.washington.edu/Patient-Care/About-Us/Pages/default.aspx

Stanford Hospital and Clinics (Stanford, CA.) http://stanfordhospital.org/quality/awards.html

Cedars-Sinai (Los Angeles) http://cedars-sinai.edu/index.aspx