Re: letters/suggestion
From: Anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 29 Mar 2000 21:12:08 -0800
I agree.
>----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean" <anonymous@obgyn.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list PCOS" <anonymous@obgyn.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 8:08 AM
Subject: letters/suggestion
> Why don't we get a base letter that we could down load from
> pcosupport.org explaining PCOS to send to doctors.Telling them we are
> reaching out for their help and please learn about PCOS or at least
> enough that they could send you to the right doctor.Then everybody that
> gets on this board print the letter and send one to 10 docotrs more or
> less in the town that you live in. Have friends and family do the same.
> You don't even have to sign the letter if you didn't want to. If
> doctors all over starting getting these letters would this help? What do
> you all think? I have not been diagnosed yet and it should not be this
> hard to get a doctor to listen. Hopefully, I am getting close but this
> is too frustrating for women to have to fight to find doctors that know
> about it. This is our bodies we know them better than the doctors. The
> doctors just need to listen. It is not fair and the women without
> insurance aren't getting the care they should. I have insurance and I
> still have to spend circles with doctors trying to figure out what is
> wrong. Now I know, but they don't yet. The other thing would be the
> women that have found doctors please tell them if they are not on the
> list of doctors on pcosupport.org to get on. We are out here and there
> aren't very many doctors that are on the list. We need them on the list
> so we can find them. We need that list to grow.
>
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