I am seeing those ads again about women and menopause. I am seeing the adds that promise that anyone can become a certified menopause coach in just 40 hours and at their own pace. 40 hours and you know it all and charge women whatever you want for your help. Hmm. It sounds too good to be true. Was that all I needed to do? Just take some 40 hour course and I would have been all set years and years ago? No undergraduate.? No medical school? No years of residency specializing in Obgyn and women’s health? No decades of private practice with ongoing and continuous learning to continue to improve my quality of care and guidance that I offer women? It could have just been done with an online course so I could go on and charge women cash for what I offer?

I gotta tell ya, I’m not buying it. I have no regrets about all my extensive investment both monetarily and mentally in my training. It has taken me all this time and continues to take me more continuing time and more learning every day to continue to offer my full attention and concentration to devoting my life to caring for women of all ages. It is what I do. It is who I am. It is what I have spent my life creating. I feel that it requires much more time and devotion than just a 40 hour course.

I continue to be saddened and disappointed about our continuing efforts to diminish the role of physicians in the care of patients everywhere. I understand that there are a lot of you out there who may have been hurt or not gotten the results or attention that you have needed from physicians or health care professionals in the past. I also understand that this makes you resentful and you want to spread this resentment to the medical community in general. I urge you that this is a mistake. There are good, intelligent and well-meaning physicians out there. There are those of us who have the compassion to listen and have good intentions and have your best interests at heart. I urge all of you before you go spending money on these seemingly good short-cut options, please reconsider and seek healthcare and coaching from actual properly certified physicians and medical professionals.