Jay Schulkin

2008

“Is one enough? Is two too many?” A worried mother in an early 1960s television commercial agonized over a cough syrup for her feverish little girl. Now that little girl, and all those little girls she represented, are women approaching menopause, and as physicians and patients they are caught up in the same kind of decision-making conundrum as that commercial mommy when it comes to hormone therapy (HT). “Should I worry more about my breast tissue or my bones?”