Bruce Dorr, MD, FACOG, URPS, FMCP-M, weighs his own experience with pellet therapy against guideline evidence, then he and Maria Uloko, MD, close with candid advice for clinicians too afraid of hormones to start prescribing.
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Infertility issues are on the rise in the United States. What are the most common? When are general ob/gyns equipped to manage patients on their own; when should they refer to specialists instead?
In this supplement, two infertility experts discuss diagnosis and treatment of abnormal uterine pathology during infertility work-ups, as well as tools that are available to providers, particularly for hysteroscopy.
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Bruce Dorr, MD, FACOG, URPS, FMCP-M, and Maria Uloko, MD, reframe testosterone candidacy around clinical presentation and hormone state, not age cutoffs or a single number on a chart.
Before prescribing testosterone, know what the evidence actually proves. Maria Uloko, MD, draws a sharp line between the one population the data supports and the much wider group of women asking about it.
Drawing on her own successful version, Amber Watters, MD, welcomes the ASA's push for closer obstetrics and anesthesia collaboration.
David Shalowitz, MD, MSHP, emphasizes spreading awareness of opportunistic salpingectomy across specialties while grounding its use in shared decision-making.
SMFM states abortion care is core to MFM practice and urges institutional action to protect high-risk patient access.
Hugh Taylor, MD, welcomes ACOG's new guidance allowing clinical, nonsurgical diagnosis of endometriosis and emphasizes it is a systemic disease affecting the whole body.
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