Two telling comments about Menopause

We found two very telling quotes that appeared in a recent New York Times piece on nonhormonal drugs for hot flashes:

Dr. Jeffrey Tice, and internist at University of California San Francisco, said, "With hormones, we were really thinking we were preventing a lot of diseases and it was good for the long term. Maybe we were brainwashed by the industry paying people to tell us that in medical school."

Dr. Heidi Nelson, an internist and professor at the Oregon Health and Science University, said, "We hate to medicalize the process (menopause/hot flashes). We want to take severe symptoms seriously, but not everybody needs to be on prescription durgs for it."