Lyle: Here today with Doctor Sherill Sellman author of what women must know to protect your daughters form breast cancer. Relative to not only our daughters but our wives and sisters and mothers, how does a woman go about picking a practitioner in these days of 7 minute physicals? And I mean that can really can help and understand and care about the kinds of problems women have that are exclusive to them?
Sherrill: That’s a very good question Lyle, so the first thing I want to say in responding to that. Is that as women we have to be educated and informed about our own bodies. We have to be able to go to a doctor’s visit with a certain degree of knowledge about what is happening to us. How our body works and be in an empowered place so we can have conversation with the doctor.
And not sit there and be ignorant so they tell us things that are encourage us to do things. And we don’t have any way to evaluate those suggestions, so we need to do our homework. We need to rally spend some time to appreciate how our body is working and – like to say be informed.
We need to find a practitioner that hopefully it was referred to us. By someone who had a really positive experience with them. And we need to find someone who is our ally on this journey of good health. Not someone who has an authoritarian nature that does not enter into a relationship that we feel comfortable with.
So many women when they go to their doctors feel like they are children and being told what to do. When if they raise a voice or question, they’re reprimanded and told not to question. We – that’s not healing relationship we need to create a healing relationship, so we need to choose a practitioner that will listen to us will be receptive to us.
We’ll have an open mind so if we suggest things they will take into consideration. We also need to understand that as women, we have perhaps the greatest gift of all as a female. And that is are own intuition. And we need to trust that intuition and honor that and be guided by that. And when we are sitting with a practitioner and we’re discussing our health or discussing options. We also need to really listen to what feels right for us and be willing to follow that even though it maybe – what the doctors are recommending.
But our greatest power is our own inner wisdom and knowledge. So we need to create a healing relationship we need to be informed and we need to honor our inner wisdom and knowledge to guide us.
Lyle: So you need to be dedicated student to your own body and you need to keep it in your own update.
Sherrill: We do and you know one very wise woman once said to me is not enough to be able to ask questions of your doctor. You actually need to know how to evaluate the answers so it means we need to do some home work. And understand our bodies or the issue that we are dealing with and really be able to have an really be able to have an intelligent conversation. So we can make the best choices.
Lyle: Thank you very much.
Sherrill: Sure.
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