In the early1970s, navigating hormone therapy was like the wild west. Protocols? Nah. Treatment Guidelines? What are those? Endocrinologists? Who needs them when family doctors will do just nicely. In this essay I salute Dr. Jack Karlin, a family-practice Doctor of Osteopathy who improved the lives of hundreds of us from his humble little squat South Philadelphia office. Was he a great provider? You bet. Was he always in trouble with the law? Read on….