{"id":6001,"date":"2013-05-23T21:34:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T02:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/?p=6001"},"modified":"2013-05-23T21:34:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T02:34:35","slug":"making-sense-of-a-celebritys-medical-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2013\/05\/23\/making-sense-of-a-celebritys-medical-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Sense of a Celebrity&#8217;s &#8220;Medical Choice&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of Angelina Jolie&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/14\/opinion\/my-medical-choice.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">NYT op-ed<\/a> about undergoing a preventive double mastectomy, many experts have weighed in &#8212; to critique, to analyze and to correct misconceptions.\u00a0 I&#8217;m keeping this month&#8217;s column short to\u00a0encourage readers to explore\u00a0some well-researched\u00a0analyses.\u00a0 I&#8217;m particularly inspired by a past guest-author for this column, <a href=\"http:\/\/gaylesulik.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gayle Sulik, Ph.D.<\/a>\u00a0(author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pink-Ribbon-Blues-Culture-Undermines\/dp\/0199740453\/ref=la_B003O89DYY_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1369361320&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pink Ribbon Blues<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and Research Associate,\u00a0Department of Women&#8217;s Studies,\u00a0University at Albany &#8211; State University of New York).\u00a0 Sulik&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/guest-blog\/2013\/05\/20\/angelina-jolie-and-the-one-percent\/\" target=\"_blank\">guest post for Scientific American<\/a>\u00a0is a must-read for those who have questions and concerns about what Jolie&#8217;s story may or may not mean for themselves and their loved ones. \u00a0If you prefer a podcast, then listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/news\/programs\/tp\/tp130516angelina_jolie_and_t\" target=\"_blank\">KCRW&#8217;s interview<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0a\u00a0panel of\u00a0experts, including Dr. Sulik along with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/healthland.time.com\/author\/apark7\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alice Park<\/a> (author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stem-Cell-Hope-Medicine-Change\/dp\/B007F7ROZU\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1350917132&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=stem+cell+hope\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Stem Cell Hope<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and health reporter for <em>Time<\/em> magazine), <a href=\"http:\/\/kartemquin.com\/about\/joanna-rudnick\" target=\"_blank\">Joanna Rudnick<\/a> (BRCA activist and <a href=\"http:\/\/kartemquin.com\/about\/joanna-rudnick\" target=\"_blank\">documentary filmmaker<\/a>), and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/medicine.yale.edu\/cancer\/patient\/people\/ellen_matloff.profile\" target=\"_blank\">Ellen Matloff, M.S., C.G.C.<\/a> (Director of <a href=\"http:\/\/yalecancercenter.org\/genetics\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Cancer Genetic Counseling at Yale Cancer Center<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I leave you with this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/guest-blog\/2013\/05\/20\/angelina-jolie-and-the-one-percent\/\" target=\"_blank\">quote<\/a> from Sulik:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;we all deserve quality information, evidence-based medicine, and access to comprehensive and coordinated health care that is free from conflicts of interest and the profit motives of commercial enterprises that are eager take advantage of our fears while selling us superficial &#8220;solutions&#8221; to our problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of Angelina Jolie&#8217;s NYT op-ed about undergoing a preventive double mastectomy, many experts have weighed in &#8212; to critique, to analyze and to correct misconceptions.\u00a0 I&#8217;m keeping this month&#8217;s column short to\u00a0encourage readers to explore\u00a0some well-researched\u00a0analyses.\u00a0 I&#8217;m particularly inspired by a past guest-author for this column, Gayle Sulik, Ph.D.\u00a0(author of Pink Ribbon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1918,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21094,1],"tags":[21977,21975,19075,21976,21925],"class_list":["post-6001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedside-manners","category-uncategorized","tag-angelina-jolie","tag-brca","tag-breast-cancer","tag-mastectomy","tag-womens-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6001"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6016,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001\/revisions\/6016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}