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Menopause Is Not a Gumboil: Answering Clinical Misunderstandings in Light of Medscape
Menopause is one of the major physiological stages in a woman’s life, as natural as childhood, adulthood and old age. It marks the end of reproductive function, but not the end of health, agency or dignity. Yet in contemporary medicine, menopause is often treated as a problem to be fixed rather than a normal biological transition to be understood. Recently, a Medscape article on the “hidden burdens” of menopause presented a detailed catalogue of new symptom clusters and proposed multiple interventions . It is a useful clinical document, but it raises a deeper question: are we still thinking about menopause itself as a physiological period in a woman’s life, or have we begun to treat the life stage as a disease? In this essay, we argue that menopause and postmenopause are physiological stages. Good clinical practice must start from this fact. Only on this basis can we distinguish genuine disease from the ordinary signs of a life stage, avoid misdiagnosis, and use hormone therapy and ...
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