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Thanks Dr. McIntosh -- Re: Myomectomy next week! Help: Is OBGYN as good as RE?
From: anxious (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 29 Dec 1999 02:19:55 -0600 (CST)
Dear Dr. McIntosh,
Thank you very much for your reply. You gave me the kind of information
I was looking for. Perhaps I can finally sleep tonight.
At Tue, 28 Dec 1999, William D. McIntosh, MD wrote:
>
>At Tue, 28 Dec 1999, anxious wrote:
>>
>>My myomectomy is next week. I just found out about "Reproductive
>>Endocrinologists". I am told RE's are better experienced. My Gyn. only
>>does ~10 Myo's/year. She seems very competent and is supposed to be
>>good. Would the chance of success be enhanced if I went to an RE?
>>Should I cancel the surgery and look for an RE? (Meanwhile the fibroid
>>grows and I ware out with stress.) Or, should I get it over with? I've
>>been very lucky to be healthy all my life. I don't want to ruin my
>>health/fertility with a bad decision.
>>
>>Thanks for any advice,
>>
>>A very anxious person
>>
>>My data: 35, healthy, no children, married & want children, 2 fibroids,
>>#1: ~8cm top of outside wall (not pedunculated, but mobile)#2: ~2.5 cm
>>inside wall.
>
>As with anything else, it depends on the person. There is nothing about
>an RE's training that makes them inherently more qualified to perform a
>myomectomy, and in fact, many REs are not surgically inclined at all,
>and therefor go into a field that has relatively little surgery compared
>with general gynecology, which is primarily a surgical speciality. So,
>if your gynecolgist is an experienced and qualified surgeon, it is
>likely that she is at least as qualified as an unknown RE who may or may
>not do very much surgery of any type, and probably more so.
>
>--
>William D. McIntosh, MD, FACOG
>Clarksville, TN
>
>This is for educational purposes only. It is not intended
> to replace consultation and examination by your physician
> or other health care provider.
>
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