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Nora W. Coffey is president of the Hysterectomy Educational Resources and Services (HERS) Foundation. She has been a guest lecturer at medical schools, nursing schools and conferences, has been interviewed in most major publications, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Magazine, Vogue and Harpers, and has appeared on numerous television and radio shows, including 20/20, Oprah Winfrey, National Public Radio’s Fresh Air, and The Today Show. Her most recent article,”Paying For the Bailout: How Unnecessary Medical Procedures are Taxing the System,” was published in The Women’s International Perspective, February 4, 2009.

An international nonprofit organization, HERS was established in 1982 to meet the need for accurate information about alternatives to and consequences of hysterectomy by addressing the multiplicity of physical, social, economic and political issues surrounding the surgery. HERS is the only independent organization solely dedicated to the issue of hysterectomy, and it has counseled over 850,000 women, while providing information to millions more throughout the world. Ninety-eight percent of the women HERS has referred to board-certified gynecologists after being told they needed hysterectomies discovered that, in fact, they did not need surgery.

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