Dr. Cook’s Endometriosis & Pelvic Pain Blog
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Archive for the ‘research’ Category August 21st
2010
As a healthcare practitioner who has devoted my life to helping diagnose and treat women with endometriosis and pelvic pain, I see the real-life pain and suffering caused by this disease. The magnitude of the pain and suffering and the ensuing impact on quality of life can be almost incomprehensible. The first worldwide study on the societal impact of endometriosis was presented recently at the 26th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. This study found a significant loss of productivity of over 11 hours per woman per week. (more…) July 5th
2010
How far I had come and how lucky I was to have the support of so many great people! They say that opportunity is the result of hard work in preparation for taking advantage of the right circumstances. My mom and dad had taught me discipline and a great work ethic. They also taught me humility, maybe even a little too much, but they are great parents who raised three amazing sons. I am so proud of my brothers. Any parent knows how challenging it is to raise successful, well-adjusted children. Anyway, although it had been 12 years since high school, where I was an ok student, here I was standing on the stage being given the presentation for the best research in the world for an OB/GYN resident physician in 1987. How did that happen? (more…) |
