Are American physicians more likely to believe in hysterectomies?
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Hysterectomy is neither a belief system nor a philosophy. It is a surgical procedure requiring a great deal of skill, performed by physicians who are specifically trained to treat conditions of the female reproductive system. But that does not mean all doctors are comfortable with the relatively high number of women who have the operations yearly in the United States. In a report produced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that examined alternatives to hysterectomy, Dr. Anthony Scialli (Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C.) said there are strong reasons to support the surgery in certain instances. In the report, Scialli is quoted as saying, “There are cases where hysterectomy is the only option.
But I think we perform too many hysterectomies. It’s a matter of American gynecologists being accustomed to performing a hysterectomy and American women being accustomed to getting one based on their mother or other female relative having one. The one thing in favor of a hysterectomy is that it works for abnormal
bleeding—but it should be the last step, not the first step.”
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