Call for change
was amused to read Harriet Minter’s recent entertaining article about ageing – but shocked to discover that any GP would announce their pleasure at seeing a female patient who wants to discuss ‘something other than the menopause, because everyone is so convinced they’re in it nowadays’. How dare a GP suggest that women are booking precious appointments to seek help for what are, for many, devastating symptoms, and trivialise this by implying they have talked themselves into thinking they are ‘in it’, as though they are
