Dr. Stanley West is the author of The Hysterectomy Hoax, published in January, 1994 by Doubleday. In it he explains why 90 percent of all hysterectomies are unnecessary, and describes all the treatment options available to every woman, no matter what age.
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When [Dr. West] left the office for a few minutes that day [my husband and I] immediately expressed a sigh of relief to finally have found someone in whom we can put our trust.
– Regina
The quality of care [Dr. West has] given me has made me set a higher standard for all the physicians in my life.
– Ellen
…it was so wonderful that I did not have to wonder if I would wake up without my organs.
– Pamela Finn, RN,
Conifer, CO
…the decision to have a hysterectomy is so common in my community and if I didn't seek a second opinion, I would not have been able to have my daughter.
– B. James
About Dr. West and Reproductive Medicine
Dr. West has helped thousands of women with fibroids get relief from their symptoms, achieve pregnancy, and keep their reproductive organs intact — even though doctor after doctor had told these women that hysterectomy was their only option. He successfully challenged the prevailing medical thinking of our time and has published extensively, taught and lectured on his findings.
Dr. West started his practice, Reproductive Medicine, in order to help infertile couples. Eventually women suffering from fibroids who were past childbearing years, or who didn't want children, began to seek him out as well. Contrary to the thinking in the medical community that favored hysterectomies for these women, the women themselves did not want hysterectomies, especially when they learned that they had another option.
Meanwhile, Dr. West began to take notice of the common side effects women reported to him after hysterectomy, side effects that were not mentioned in the medical textbooks and that the prevailing medical “wisdom” wrote off as “in a woman’s head.”
Eventually, following an article published in the British Journal Lancet, the medical community began to recognize what women had known for years: that the troubling symptoms women experienced after hysterectomy were very real. Science began to recognize that a large number of women – not an isolated few – were experiencing these symptoms, and medical causes for them were beginning to be discovered. Given this fact, Dr. West could no longer justify performing hysterectomy for conditions that could be managed with less drastic measures. To help inform the public, Dr. West authored The Hysterectomy Hoax, published by Doubleday in 1994.
Dr. West graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. He did his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Einstein – Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx.
He accepted the dual honors of serving as Professor and Surgeon at the University of Rome and as Consultant in Microsurgery at King Edward Hospital in Bermuda.
He is a member of:
- The New York County Medical Society
- The Fallopius International Society
- The International College of Surgeons
- The New York Gynecological Society
- The American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology
- London Royal Society of Medicine
- Pan American Medical Association
- The Society of Reproductive Surgeons
- The International Society of Gynecologic Endoscopy
- A Fellow of AAGL American Association of Gynecologic Lapararoscopy and a Diplomat of the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
His practice is located at
135 West 27th Street in Manhattan.
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