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07-13-2006, 11:36 AM
Greeley Tribunte (July 11, 2006)
Written by: Millete Birhanemaskel
Kaea Beresford has seen it all. Urinary Tract Infections, endometriosis, Human Papilloma Virus, you name it, she has faced it head on -- quite literally. The Greeley Medical Clinic gynecologist jokes she trained in the war zone at an Atlanta hospital.
Still, Beresford is amazed at how often conditions, such as interstitial cystitis, go undiagnosed. Or how common it is to self misdiagnose a bacterial infection, for example, for a yeast infection and wonder why, after a week, the over-the-counter cream hasn't helped your vagina heal.
Beresford is careful not to knock her male peers, but for a long time, predominately male doctors tended to parts of a woman they could never fully understand. Theories would come about that abdominal pain, "not cured in three weeks is not real," Beresford said. "Women were told 'the pain is in your head.' "
Beresford knows it is real and so do 5 to 10 percent of her patients who finally get an answer to the pain: interstitial cystitis.
Read the full story here:
http://www.greeleytrib.com/article/20060712/FAMHEAL/107120092
Written by: Millete Birhanemaskel
Kaea Beresford has seen it all. Urinary Tract Infections, endometriosis, Human Papilloma Virus, you name it, she has faced it head on -- quite literally. The Greeley Medical Clinic gynecologist jokes she trained in the war zone at an Atlanta hospital.
Still, Beresford is amazed at how often conditions, such as interstitial cystitis, go undiagnosed. Or how common it is to self misdiagnose a bacterial infection, for example, for a yeast infection and wonder why, after a week, the over-the-counter cream hasn't helped your vagina heal.
Beresford is careful not to knock her male peers, but for a long time, predominately male doctors tended to parts of a woman they could never fully understand. Theories would come about that abdominal pain, "not cured in three weeks is not real," Beresford said. "Women were told 'the pain is in your head.' "
Beresford knows it is real and so do 5 to 10 percent of her patients who finally get an answer to the pain: interstitial cystitis.
Read the full story here:
http://www.greeleytrib.com/article/20060712/FAMHEAL/107120092