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How many women with PMS does it take to change a light bulb?” The punch line to that old joke is, “That’s not funny.” And for 80% of all menstruating women – the number of women in the United States who experience premenstrual syndrome – it is no laughing matter. Though if you do have…
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Angelina Jolie, in her Op-Ed column in The New York Times, disclosed that she had a prophylactic double mastectomy. Jolie is the carrier of the brca 1 gene which substantially increases a woman’s risk of breast and ovarian cancer, lost her mother to breast cancer, and did not want to subject her children to…
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When I was training to be an OB/GYN, I was taught that the doctor-patient relationship was supposed to have certain boundaries. To be a good doctor, I was expected to be: Perfectly poised on an ivory “doctor” pedestal Always in control Immune to my emotions Always professional Able to single-handedly fix anything that comes my way…
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