After a year spent interviewing women for a book about unnecessary hysterectomies and oophorectomies (the medical term for ovary amputations), I am dismayed that despite many medical alternatives to hysterectomy, so many American women are still losing their organs. About 600,000 women a year undergo hysterectomies in the U.S., the second most common surgery, surpassed […]
Author: Frances Cerra Whittelsey
Frances Cerra Whittelsey is an award winning professional writer. She was a staff reporter for The New York Times and Newsday, where she won a George Polk Award for Public Service, focusing on consumer abuses and investigations. She has also been features editor of a women’s cancer magazine, MAMM.