It irks me how hyper-specialization has fragmented medicine, and our approach to treating the body in general. We are integrated, interconnected wholes— *especially* the female body. Gynos and Endocrinologists should be much more collaborative and cooperative in their approach to patient care.
Angelina Jolie’s mother, aunt, and maternal grandmother all died very young from ovarian and breast cancer. She famously had a preventative mastectomy and radical hysterectomy due to carrying the brca gene. It’s quite the decision to make but I can’t imagine the grief and pain she’s experienced and would want to spare her children by any means necessary with whatever tools she feels is at her disposal.
My first oncologist refused my request for a referral to an Endo doctor stating that he wasn’t worried about the over 1 cm mass on my adrenal gland. I was so infuriated I fired him on the spot and just tried to get out of that room. I could tell he was perplexed as to why I wasn’t asking questions. The Dr was suppose to be brilliant but I wasn’t letting him touch me in a surgery.
I have been the victim of so much medical gaslighting I have really come to despise the profession.