Should Women's Health be a Medical Specialty

Abstract

A few months ago, I came across several articles about a new specialty in medicine focusing on women's health. The proponents of this specialty were concerned with women's total health needs much as pediatrics is with children or geriatrics with old people. "Its practitioners would be trained in everything from managing menopause to spotting abuse, with a focus on the growing body of research on how diseases and drugs act differently in women than in men"