Re: Cincinnati - Again
From: William McIntosh (williammcintosh@msn.com)
Thu Sep 9 09:07:49 2004
I do LSH in Clarksville, TN. Is 3-4 hours to far (TIC)?
William D McIntosh MD FACOG
Clarksville, TN
>----- Original Message -----
From: "Joanne Bulley, MD" <islesannie@yahoo.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L" <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 5:08 PM
Subject: Cincinnati - Again
> I have a high school friend with severe dysmenorrhea and menorrhagia who
> is 49 and is pretty certain she wants a hyst - not the Balloon Ablation
> her gynecologist is proposing (to the point of not being willing to
> discuss a hyst). This friend is a praciticing psychologist with 4 kids,
> 2 in college. She has been treated with OCPs - which reduce the
> sypmtoms, but was still getting worse on the OCPs. 4 days of "down
> time" with her menses between bleeding and pain.
>
> Any of you have any names of gyns in Cinci that aren't going to say "you
> have to keep that uterus because menopause is right around the corner"?
> Especially any that are good with the Laparoscopic supra cervical hyst?
>
> My friend wants a second opinion (and possibly transfer of care) from
> someone who will at least discuss ALL the options. If she can be
> convinced the doc has reviewed her history - exam etc and really can say
> that the Ablation is the best because of X, Y or Z - then she would
> consider it. But at this point she thinks the doc is TOO conservative.
>
> So -- does anyone have any suggestions? She'd even consider going to
> nerby places - Lousiville, Columbus, Dayton.
>
> Thanks
>
> Joanne
>
> --
> Joanne Bulley, MD
> Keene, NH, USA
>
> "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies
> in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those
who
> are cold and are not clothed."
>
> President Dwight D. Eisenhower
> April 16, 1953
>
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