40 questions about hysterectomy

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Women Urge Others Not to Rush into Hysterectomy

http://www.healthcarehub.com/News/Features/article.cfm?AID=611

" To help women make better decisions about hysterectomy, oophorectomy

or other pelvic surgery, Steele suggests they ask these 40 questions:

1. Why have you recommended a hysterectomy?

2. I understand that hysterectomy is necessary only if I have cancer.

If I do not have cancer, why should I agree to have my reproductive

organs removed?

3. Will any of my symptoms subside once I enter natural menopause?

4. Have all the proper diagnostic tests — for example, laparoscopy,

blood tests, ultrasound, x-ray, or MRI — been done to determine that

5. I have the condition for which you're recommending hysterectomy?

Edited by C. Dionne. Note: Please visit the above link/website to read the

entire story and review all 40 questions listed.