"Drs. Horn and Miller have superb
training and years of practical experience caring for women patients. It shows
on every page of this excellent book.”
--The Honorable Glenda Hatchett, star of the nationally syndicated television
program, “Judge Hatchett”
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The Doctor is Human By Dr. Robin Miller
Healthcare has become a maze of insurance companies, regulations and lack of access to providers. Part of what makes it so complicated is all the charting and coding doctors must do. All of this takes away from patient care. Doctors spend more time on their computers than with patients. In my opinion, it has caused […]Read More
Dr. Robin Miller and Dr. Janet Horn met on the first day of their fellowships at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1983.
For three afternoons every week over the next two years, they had sour coffee, greasy food, and long chats at the hospital
café. Despite their being on opposite coasts for most of their medical careers,
their talks have continued for the past 25 years.
Those girlfriend to girlfriend conversations between the two Baby Boomer women physicians inspired this book. Since the first of the talks after they met - concerning Robin's misdiagnosis of her own symptoms (she mistook the sensation from the then-new technological advance of heated seats in her date's Saab for onset urinary incontinence), to their more recent chats - concerning how to balance a full-time career with a marriage and two rowdy teenage boys (Robin) or the same career with a marriage and a rowdy live-in mother (Janet)- they began to realize that the topics of their conversations are similar to other women in midlife and beyond.
They know, from their own experiences and from that of their patients, what the most pressing health-related questions are at this stage of life, such questions unique to this generation of women as: Do I still need a pelvic exam after menopause? (Absolutely.) Can I still get sexually transmitted diseases? (Yes.) Should I have a hysterectomy to avoid cancer? (Not necessarily.) Is it really true that more women die from cardiovascular disease (heart attacks and strokes) each year than from breast cancer? (Yes.) Is becoming senile or demented an inevitable consequence of aging? (No.) Since vaccinations are for kids, do I still need any? (Yes) Since I've smoked cigarettes for so long without a problem, is there any reason I should still try to stop? (Absolutely.)
In trying to address these and other issues, it became evident to the authors that the currently available general information on aging - physical as well as psychosocial - is not always applicable to this unique and individualistic generation of women. This book covers the spectrum of the maturing woman's health issues in the 21st century.
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