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When will it be about our health and not our figure?

By KMorales | July 28th, 2010

In 1996 headlines proclaimed women were discriminated against in heath care. My initial thought was, “That‘s dumb. I don’t treat my women patients differently than men.”

At the same time I presented a program for the American Heart Association on “Women and Heart Disease”. A common obstacle was that women tend to worry about their husband’s health but their figure.

I had a friend die of ovarian cancer. She said her initial symptoms were diarrhea and a 10 pound weight loss. She didn’t go to the physician right away saying, “What woman wouldn’t be happy to lose 10 pounds?” more»