Dr. R: Well, here we are chatting again, just like we do in our book, only this time … the book is done and we’re actually having a blog chat – how about that?! I know there have been sightings of our finished book, but it won’t be officially released until September 1. How are you feeling now that book will be out in a few weeks?

Dr. J: Relieved that it’s finished, excited, a bit nervous, and very hopeful that our readers will like it and find it useful. I especially hope that our readers will see that they really need now to focus on taking care of themselves as well as they have taken care of everyone else all these years. What do you hope our readers learn from reading the book?

Dr. R: That they should trust their instincts, especially about how they’re feeling physically or about new symptoms they’re having. I believe that the stories we share in the book – of our patients and of our own health issues – will show women that they are usually correct when they think something is not right with their bodies, and that they should speak up about it.

Dr. J: So true. Many of us have been healthy for so many years now that we’re surprised when new symptoms or an illness occurs at this age, and, we ignore it or talk ourselves out of it for many reasons: because we don’t have time to be sick, don’t believe it can be happening to us, and don’t want to bother anyone. Look at you for example. In the book you tell the story of how you thought being fatigued, pale, and having frequent heavy periods was normal for menopause!

Dr. R: And what about you?!! The book tells how you ignored abdominal pain for a long while.

Dr. J: That’s right. I hope our readers will learn from our experiences and from those of our patients, and will take our constant mantra of “The 4 A’s” to heart and use them regularly.

Dr. R: The 4 A’s are discussed throughout our book, and are a subject for an entirely new blog.

Dr. J: So, what else will we be blogging about in the coming weeks?

Dr. R: As we said on the Blog page of this website, new medical information keeps on coming! In the blogs to come, we’ll be talking about a recent study comparing the results of the major types of weight loss diets including the Atkins diet (low carbs and high protein) and the Mediterranean diet. Those results will surprise some of our readers.

Dr. J: And there’s a new study stating that the number of HIV cases in the U.S. has been underestimated. We’ll discuss that and what it means for our readers, as well as the new recommendations for who should be screened for Type II diabetes. And, I’ll be talking about mopping and how…

Dr. R: Mopping?! Are you serious? How would you know about mopping? Besides what’s there to talk about?

Dr. J: You’ll just have to wait and see. Let’s wind this up by telling our readers how excited we are to be here, and how pleased we are that they will be able to read our book soon, AND that we definitely want to hear from them – about the book and about their thoughts on their health.

Dr. R: And that we will be blogging at least once a week, and more often as medical information comes out that we need to update you on. The format of the blogs will vary too; they won’t all be chats like this one is. Sometimes only one of us will do the blogging.

We’ll end today’s blog by saying:

Both: Welcome again!!!!

The purpose of our blog is to keep you, our reader, abreast of new information from the medical world that may affect your health and to help clarify information already in our book. Even as we wrote the book, new information was coming out on a daily (sometimes hourly!) basis that had us scrambling to update our manuscript. So we see this blog as being an actual continuation of our book with both updates and further explanations. We hope this blog will spark interesting and enlightening discussions with you!

Please see the Contact page on this website for more information on our discussions.