PCOS Messages for January, 2002: Re: PCOS by any other name...

Re: PCOS by any other name...

From: Renee (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 09 Jan 2002 21:08:55 -0800

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I agree that there are downsides, like you mentioned. People doing literature searches will lose a lot of info looking only at a new name. They would have to know about the old names. Docs barely know about PCOS. Changing the name could confuse them further and there may be a tendancy to discount it because of a "fickle" name.

But, these things tend to evolve on their own. The medical community will either accept or reject it. Any change takes a long time. And, if someone is doing serious research, they will encounter PCOS in the bibliography or as a reference like "HHMD (formerly PCOS), ..." then be able to search for PCOS lit. Just like now people can search for Stein-Levanthal info.

Renee

Sonnet wrote: >
> Thanks everyone for the replies so far!
>
> Okay, back to discussion (I get into real arguments about this all the
> time so I am really curious to find out what all of your views on it
> are!)
>
> What about the OPPOSITE view, that we shouldn't change the name? The
> most common reason being that hey, it took us this long to actually get
> some press and some recognition of this disease. If we change the name,
> all of that will be lost!
>
> What do you think?
>
> :) Sonnet
>
> --
> Sonnet Fitzgerald, PCOS Association, Online Community Liaison. Email: sonnet@pcosupport.org
>

-- Renee Cordrey, MSPT, MPH, CWS

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