There are many great doctors out there who are working in various aspects of women's medicine. This, of course, includes reproductive medicine. Most of these doctors go about their jobs without recognition from anyone other than the women that they are helping on a daily basis. And that's considered enough reward for doing the work that they both love and find to be important to their communities. But it's always nice to know that there are occasional times when these doctors are recognized by the rest of the medical community for the work that they are doing.
That was the case recently when the American Medical Women's Association issued their 2008 Award for Women in Science. The recipient of the award was a doctor named Linda C. Giudice who primarily works in the University of California - San Francisco medical system. Her life's work has been devoted to making advances in multiple areas of women's medicine including the treatment of infertility. She has devoted a significant amount of her clinical research to the issue of infertility.
Doctors don't get into their line of work to win awards; they do their work in order to help people. But isn't the people who are helping others the group of people we should be recognizing most for their work? This is one example of when that happens.
Question of the Day: What other areas of women's medicine concern you?
