It’s amazing how often I see women with severe hormonal problems and I show my medical students the issues, which they have never understood before. There are medical syndromes they see in my clinic that medical school does not tell them about fully. Bio-identical hormones are far from the flavour of the month, you know!
Go to any women’s health conference and you will hear shouted from the rafters the opinion that we are wasting time and energy and being stupid when we prescribe bio-identical hormones to women. In fact the reaction of some of the medical profession is so extreme and so emotional that you wonder if “the lady doth protest too much”!!
Shakespeare had it right when he pointed out that an extreme reaction may betoken something else entirely….!
In my waiting room you can tell the women who are happy on their progesterone and other hormones. They rock in with a smile, get their results and head off home with more smiles! Happy girls!
So many women every week tell me they have not been taken seriously by their own GP when they complain about menopausal symptoms. Why aren’t they listening? It is SO rewarding to have a woman’s face light up when she tells you her story and you take her through the various test results and explain them. And no, it doesn’t take a whole lot of time! That’s an excuse.
Anyway I have decided I need to run some workshops for doctors who can get to the Gold Coast to enlarge their horizons about menopause and to tell them what I do and how I do it and show them how simple it is to have a system and stick to it!
So, if you are a doctor, or if you know of a doctor, who is interested, get them in touch with this site and they can email me on info@drmauramcgill.com. We’ll see if we can create a cluster of doctors for people who need this area of medicine. We can ask the other well know doctors in this field to come speak to them also, maybe Sandra Cabot and others… Good Idea!
