| October 2004 · Vol. 16, No. 10 LETTERS
Educating other docs about the WHI
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Fast Track
Letters to journals read by primary care physicians might help them properly interpret WHI data.
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Thank you for your May 2004 editorial on the Womenus Health Initiative (“Overgeneralizing WHI: What are they thinking?”). I, too, am frustrated by the spin many of our primary care colleagues put on the use of any combination of estrogen/progestogen for any purpose. What are they thinking, anyway?
At a recent dinner sponsored by a drug company that produces no estrogen products, the speaker referred to “breast-cancer–causing estrogen,” and all of us timid physicians just sat there and let him go on about statins and the like.
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