My Philosophy of Treatment by Dr. E
I have been practicing Obstetrics and Gynecology for 37 years. Most of those years have been here in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (except for a few years in Bangkok, Thailand for the US Army, and 5 years – 1995-2000 – in Las Cruces, New Mexico, working for an indigent based clinic).
As the medical partner for http://www.SecretSuffering.com, I would like to share my background with you and how my own practice as a specialist in chronic pelvic pain (CPP) has evolved.
Upon returning to Bethlehem, PA in 2000, I was asked to establish a non-surgical program for women with chronic pelvic pain for a hospital in Bethlehem. I had no idea at the time how rewarding an experience this was destined to become. I had always thought that the excitement and gratification I received during the years I spent delivering several thousand babies, and doing my best to care for the gynecological needs of women through their life cycles could never be matched … until I ventured into this new professional endeavor.
We developed an approach and a “model” for assessing, educating and treating women with the wide variety of painful symptoms known, in total, as Chronic Pelvic Pain (CPP). Many of our patients (close to 500 women and a handful of men) have benefited immeasurably and regained their health.
Guiding these patients, many of whom had suffered for years and even decades, back to health, made my newly created program an absolute pleasure to work in. It is my hope that I continue to help CPP sufferers for the remainder of my professional years.
The current health care system in America, as many of you realize, is “broken” in many ways and in need of incredibly intense reform. The primary incentives for physicians and other health care providers is to spend as little time with patients as possible, and carry out as many invasive tests and surgical procedures as they can. Consequently, most of the patients that I see in our program have had numerous procedures, surgeries and tests, and have seen many different specialists who have not been able to “fix” their painful symptoms. In many cases, patients are at their lowest point when we begin to see them.
