Experienced Internal Medicine Doctor Updates Womens Health

Experienced internal medicine doctor shares with women the latest thinking on psychological problems, what the women's health initiative studies really showed, anti-depressant use, estrogen replacement therapy, perimenopause, skin care cosmetic surgery at midlife, cardiovascular disease, common cancers in women, controversies of estrogen, how to manage in the medical system.

New Orleans, LA March 27, 2004 -- Dispatches from the Frontlines of Medicine: Health For Midlife Women: When You Think You Are Falling Apart By Kathleen W. Wilson M.D. will be released October 2004. Dr. Wilson, an experienced internal medicine doctor with a special interest in womens health, shares with women the latest thinking on psychological problems, anti-depressant use, what the Womens Health Initiative studies really showed about estrogen replacement therapy, perimenopause, skin care and cosmetic surgery at midlife, an aggressive approach to detecting asymptomatic heart disease, common cancers in women, and how to manage in the medical system. She has focused her medical practice on midlife people, and observes what keeps people healthy and what makes them miserable. She emphasizes what people can do to help themselves to avoid those big, expensive medical problems further down the line. This book will give you hope and a new outlook on your health. The book is 316 pages and avoids medical jargon. It is spiced with stories and humor in straight forward, easy-to-read prose.

Dr. Wilson attended medical school at the University of Iowa, trained for 5 years at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN., and has been a senior internal medicine doctor at Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans the past ten years. Before that she was a Lt. Col. in the medical corp of the US Air Force. She is board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology and has a large full-time practice with thousands of patients. She describes her position as a medical doctor for 28 years as a front seat in the drama of life.

Dr. Wilson is also the author of Brain Maintenance: How To Prevent Stroke and Delay Dementia (October 2004) and Your Husbands Health: Simplify Your Worry List (October, 2003)

Dispatches from the Frontlines of Medicine: Health For Midlife Women: When You Think You Are Falling Apart By Kathleen W. Wilson M.D. 316 pages. $21.95 ISBN 9742976-2-3. Release October 2004.

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