Listening to Gynaecological Patients’ Problems

Gynaecological textbooks generally are divided into sections according to pathological diagnoses, not according to symptoms or symptom complexes. Students of gynaecology, because they ini­ tially acquire information from textbooks, are conditioned by the organisation of these texts to think of gynaecology in terms of pathological entities rather than symptom complexes. Gynaecolog­ ical patients, however, do not present complaining of endomet­ riosis or endometrial malignancy or hypophyseal-ov