Patient Profiles

The following profiles explore different patient types and the communication strategies that may help draw them out.Proactively opening patient dialogues can help you better determine whether the NovaSure Procedure will be right for her.

The Normalizer

RG is a 45-year-old single mother who has been bleeding heavily for years. She thinks that this is just "something every woman lives with." When asked if she’s having any problems with her menstruation, she says she isn’t. Upon closer questioning, she reveals that she bleeds half of the month and often wears 2 or 3 pads at a time.

Strategy: Use the Menorrhagia Treatment Options Chart available from your Cytyc Representative to help explain that menorrhagia is a medical condition. Discuss diagnosis and treatment options. Use gentle terms and easy-to-understand language. Offer brochures and literature for RG to take home and read.

   NovaSure: Heavy Period Patient Profiles

The Silent Sufferer

HP is premenopausal, hypertensive, and extremely shy. She knows that her heavy menstrual bleeding is a problem, but she is embarrassed to discuss it with anyone. If left on her own, she will never bring it up.

Strategy: Allow HP to fill out a heavy-bleeding questionnaire in the waiting room. Make a copy of the questionnaire, and go over it with her in the privacy of your office. Use the NovaSure flip chart to discuss treatment options in gentle terms. Send HP to the patient section of www.NovaSure.com or to www.aboutheavyperiods.com.

The Anxious Patient

PD is 40-year-old single schoolteacher. She does not plan to have children, and she is dissatisfied with the way hormone therapy has treated her menorrhagia. She also complains of hormone-related side effects. She hates the thought of surgery, but is desperate for relief.

Strategy: Discuss NovaSure Endometrial Ablation as a minimally invasive hysteroscopic procedure. Review the benefits of a quick, simple, safe, and successful procedure with a 93% patient satisfaction. Give PD NovaSure literature to consider at home. Schedule a follow-up appointment

Use this tool to talk to your patients and help them open up about their individual situation.

Helping Patients Help Themselves

You can help your patients better assess their symptoms and understand menorrhagia. The Patient section of our web site contains tools like the period tracker and the self-assessment quiz which can provide you with information you need to open the dialogue and plan the patient's treatment.