You are a woman who has just gone through menopause, and the reduction of female hormones being produced by your body is causing several unpleasant physical symptoms. Your physician suggests that she will put you on menopausal hormone therapy if you insist on it, but she warns you of the risks of such treatment. What factors might lead you to choose the treatment or might lead you to decline the treatment? What would be your decision-making process?

You are a woman who has just gone through menopause, and the reduction of female hormones being produced by your body is causing several unpleasant physical symptoms. Your physician suggests that she will put you on menopausal hormone therapy if you insist on it, but she warns you of the risks of such treatment. What factors might lead you to choose the treatment or might lead you to decline the treatment? What would be your decision-making process?

Complete Textbook Of Phlebotomy

5th Edition

ISBN:9781337464314

Author:Hoeltke

Publisher:Hoeltke

Chapter3: Basic Human Anatomy And Physiology

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