Make an appointment to see Dr. Cate by calling
If you live or work in the Napa area and would like Dr Cate to be your primary physician you can call Dr. Shanahan’s office located in the 980 Trancas building in front of the Queen of the Valley Medical Center. Please not submit questions via email, Facebook, or other online media. Please note DO NOT email dr cate to make an appointment. If you need to make an appointment see the number below. If you are having a medical emergency please call 911.
980 Trancas Street, Suite 10
707 251 3681
Frequently Asked Questions:
What are your office hours? 8:30-5 Monday through Friday. On Wednesday, the office is open but I do not schedule appointments.
DO YOU DO PHONE CONSULTS? Starting in May 2012 I will offer telephone consult between 1 and 3 on Wednesdays and Saturdays. These virtual visits will be much longer than the typical insurance-related office visit to allow me the time required to get at the root of your health issues and formulate a definitive treatment plan. The fee is $175 for 30 mins and $325 for an hour. Payments must be made in advance via paypal. If you would like to reserve a Wed or Sat appointment in advance, please send an email with the date and time you would like to admin@DrCate.com.
What ages do you treat? At my current Napa Valley I see children and adults from age 6 and up. In my future Napa Valley location (sometime in 2012) I plan to see all ages.
Will I see patients in the hospital? I work hard to keep you out of the hospital, but if you need to be admitted you will be well taken care of by Queen of the Valley’s excellent hospitalists. I often visit my patients during their hospital stays to provide additional continuity of care.
What happens after hours? If you have an emergency, please call 911. If you have an urgent medical question, the answering service will put you through to the physician on call. If you need medication refills, please wait until the next business day.
Where can I find a doctor who won’t put healthy people on statins? This is getting easier to do, as more and more physicians are learning the truth about pay for performance and what really causes heart attacks.
Some good web resources:
http://paleophysiciansnetwork.com/doctors
http://www.nmsociety.org/find-a-doctor.html
Many, though not all (about 30% by my guess) of the Bariatric Physicians will be able to help: http://www.asbp.org/apps/find_a_weight_loss_doctor/physician_search.php
And finally, for blogs by other doctors and health practitioners who care about your nutrition and health:
http://www.kriskris.com/paleo-doctors/
I live in St. George, fascinated with your book, Deep Nutrition and it’s the ONLY book for the past several years that has made complete sense to me. However, I live in Southern Utah. Would it be possible to arrange a phone consultation? Thank you very much.
HI Elsie
I am working with my employer to arrange phone consultations but it will be a slow process since I work for a very large organization. If you subscribe to the website you are sure to be notified when the arrangement is complete.
Thank you so much for your kind comments!
Hi Dr. Cate,
I was very sad to hear of your departure from NH but wish you the best of luck. Are any NH Dr.’s that you have worked with running TRIM? I was slated to start with you (appointment was set) but found out I was pregnant and ended up so sick I couldn’t fathom talking about food! Now that I am no longer pregnant, i would love to find a primary that will work with me on this.
Thanks, and again good luck!
You will love Dr Polina Sayess. She works at Family Physicians of Manchester at 57 Webster street and has been “studying” with me for over 1 year.
Kudos for the great website! Very impressive and I think you set just the write tone of giving people credit for common sense and explaining complex topics like the reverseT3 issue. One of my twitter followers suggested I should interview you for my NPR podcast Ask Dr. Dawn. Please contact me if you are interested after you check us out.
Hello, Dr. Cate!
I read somewhere that you require certain tests be done before a phone consultation. Would it be possible to list those? I’m one of those hypothyroid-but-sure-there’s-more-to-it people.
I’m also teaching people some of the concepts in your books as they relate to mental health. Thank you so much for this information.
Hi! I feel like there is so much synchronicity- I am from NH and went to college for a bit in Hawai’i. I took a nutrition class that I loved there and ended up transferring for nursing school. I’m graduating in a month & looking at further education so I can teach preventative nutrition! I was wondering if you have any suggestions on masters degrees in nursing that work well with nutrition (a midwife or a nurse practitioner?). What further education did you get after med school to supplement?
Hmmm. Alyssa I’m sad to say that you will not learn the correct information about nutrition in your typical nursing school, just as I did not learn the correct information in medical school. Having a strong background in organic chemistry and molecular biology enabled me to recognize, when I came across the nutrition tome written by Dr Weston A Price in the 1930s, that he was right and Ancel Keys, Harvard, and the RDA were/are wrong.
Hi Dr. Cate,
If you had to begin your graduate education again, would do you anything differently?
Would you go through allopathic medical school again, considering it a necessary if insufficient step to reach your goal of “getting to the root of illness”?
Medical school and residency are definitely necessary: The best training I know of to learn the art/science of diagnosis. Of course if I’d read Price’s book (and mine) first, things would have made a lot more sense.