He doesn't even know he saved my life! Dr Kovacs wasn't even my doctor at the time, when he came into the jewelry store where I worked. I was showing him a timepiece, when he stopped speaking (mid sentence), pointed to my throat, and then said "You need to get that checked out, your thyroid is bulging out!". My heart sank because I just knew there was something wrong. Turned out I had Thyroid Cancer (metastatic/spread into many lymph nodes). And apparently I'd had it for years. The previous doctor I had seen, insisted nothing was wrong with me and had sent me out of his office with a prescription for Prozac. I had told that previous doctor that other doctors had always used ultrasound to monitor my thyroid (since I had a tumor and partial removal as a child), but he just got irritated with me and insisted my thyroid hormones were fine, and therefor there couldn't be a problem. I now know that T3, T4 and Tsh hormones have nothing to do with cancer detection. But I was so humiliated by the experience, that I wasn't likely to see another doctor for a long, long time. Thank God for Dr Kovacs! If he hadn't walked into the jewelry store that day, noticed my swollen neck by glancing at it. and told me to get my thyroid checked, I'm pretty sure I'd be dead by now. It's been a rough few years, thyroid removed along with a total of 53 lymph nodes, and twice the usual nuclear medicine, but I've recently been cleared for a whole three months before recheck...a very good sign indeed. Thank you and God bless you Dr Kovacs read more