I want to be a gynecologist

This seemed like a good place to vent...

So I go to the gynecologist who tells me that all of my pain is probably from a cyst that ruptured. This derived from the fact that there is a large cyst in the other ovary. I ask if it could possibly be from endometriosis since I was recently informed that my mother suffered from this (thanks for passing on the information dad). The doctor said yes but that it didn't really matter because the treatment for endometriosis is the same...birth control...and lots of it. My friend is going through menopause...and you know what they prescribed her? Well, birth control of course. And if the birth control isn't effective they will prescribe a different one (in any of the above cases) until said patient gets frustrated. Then the doctor will offer up a sure-fire way to resolve the issue...get rid of everything. Hysterectomy! Woohoo!

Do we really need to go to medical school for this? I could easily look at every woman who came through my door and tell her that for any given female malady...take birth control...oh, here let me experiment some more...take a different kind...this new kind...etc. Oh, nothing seems to work, darn, here, let me get paid a little more to remove it all. And once we do that? Hormone Replacement Therapy...read...birth control! What?!? Is this really all that modern medicine can offer us?!? What's worse is that I (along with millions of other women) am buying in to this. Crazy.

I think I could really handle this career. It pays well and I think I have the prescriptive remedies all figured out.