HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS: A WOMEN'S HEALTH SPECIALTY? (GYNECOLOGICAL SPECIALISTS)
Why should basic health care be health care for men, they ask, while women's health care is relegated to some kind of special, isolated status?
Should women see gynecological specialists, or primary care generalists? We'll discuss this briefly in the after this part. But as these healthy debates are played out in the medical community, you are more concerned with your personal solutions to the absence of needed health information for women. Throughout this book, I'll discuss ways that you can derive information about your own health needs and risks given the information that's out there already—by finding the right kinds of authorities on your problem, discovering your options as they are best understood by medicine today, and so on your health care and the media: The importance of becoming a savvy audience
A generic drug is made with the same active ingredients and is available in thesame strength and dosage form as the equivalent brand-name product. Generic drugs produce the same effects in the body as the brand-name drugs, because both contain the identical active ingredients...