You could print this off and take it with you. :-D
Seriously. I talked with Dee today and since her daughter's a doctor, she explained a couple of things. First off, doctors are really hesitant to fix a woman because too many have come back and sued later on. The problem I see with this is the women themselves, acting like little children (and getting the rest of us lumped in with them, thank you), and juries which award the settlements, clearly believing the women who had these procedures done must have done so at gunpoint, or some other such foolishness.
As a corollary of this, doctors won't perform the procedures now - according Dee's doctor daughter, who recently ran an OB/GYN clinic - because the premiums on their malpractice insurance are already terribly high, and the risk of lawsuit is too great.
Second, she said any messing around with a woman's plumbing interrupts hormone production/delivery and makes that woman's life uncomfortable (as in menopause). I don't think she was trying to "bingo" you, I think she was just seriously trying to point out reasons doctors might genuinely have for not performing these procedures. MY point, however, was that someone already in misery WITH the malfunctioning organs surely wouldn't feel any worse for having them taken out. She didn't argue that, but does wonder why no doctor will help you, unless your insurance just doesn't cover it and they're worried about not being paid.
She also pointed out there are GYN specialists who don't deal in obstetrics. My guess is that these people would be more willing to perform such a procedure, since they have no direct interest in making you use your uterus.
(On a side note, would you like me to take your specific moniker off this post in an edit? I can, if you want. It was just a rant and I didn't realize so many people would read it ...)
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Seriously. I talked with Dee today and since her daughter's a doctor, she explained a couple of things. First off, doctors are really hesitant to fix a woman because too many have come back and sued later on. The problem I see with this is the women themselves, acting like little children (and getting the rest of us lumped in with them, thank you), and juries which award the settlements, clearly believing the women who had these procedures done must have done so at gunpoint, or some other such foolishness.
As a corollary of this, doctors won't perform the procedures now - according Dee's doctor daughter, who recently ran an OB/GYN clinic - because the premiums on their malpractice insurance are already terribly high, and the risk of lawsuit is too great.
Second, she said any messing around with a woman's plumbing interrupts hormone production/delivery and makes that woman's life uncomfortable (as in menopause). I don't think she was trying to "bingo" you, I think she was just seriously trying to point out reasons doctors might genuinely have for not performing these procedures. MY point, however, was that someone already in misery WITH the malfunctioning organs surely wouldn't feel any worse for having them taken out. She didn't argue that, but does wonder why no doctor will help you, unless your insurance just doesn't cover it and they're worried about not being paid.
She also pointed out there are GYN specialists who don't deal in obstetrics. My guess is that these people would be more willing to perform such a procedure, since they have no direct interest in making you use your uterus.
(On a side note, would you like me to take your specific moniker off this post in an edit? I can, if you want. It was just a rant and I didn't realize so many people would read it ...)