The medical menopause : letter to the editor

Extracted from text ... SA Fam Pract 2005;47(1) 4 The Medical Menopause To the editor: I have often pondered my role as a free-range doctor out there in society, asked for advice by a neighbour, "discovered" at your holiday hotel or during a flight. Now that I am retired this role has new and challenging dimensions. There is such a big difference between the protected territory of our professional lives, playing one-to-one with home ground advantage to the tune of our own agendas, and playing away in the open market of sitting-rooms and dinner tables, always outnumbered, just one voice among many. Although ..