Is your doctor taking menopause seriously?


A recent report indicates women in B.C. feel they're not getting the health care they need and doctors "diminish" their concerns, [in this case regarding the symptoms of] menopause. Menopause Chicks has offered a place online for women to ask questions and discuss their health for more than a decade, amid a perceived shortfall in care by providers. As, Genesa Greening, president and CEO of the B.C Women's Healh Foundation States, "Menopause and menstruation are 'life stages,' not health conditions, 'so we want the health-care system to actually invest in better understanding those" .