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Article: Obituary--John Lee, MD.
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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John Roland Lee, MD is an American icon. He changed the face of women's medicine, and he changed me--forever.
I first met John in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, 1995 during one of his lectures. Just a short five weeks earlier, I was sent his two self-published books, Optimal Health Guidelines and Natural Progesterone: The Multiple Roles of a Remarkable Hormone. My once lobotomized belief in conventional hormone wisdom was at once dashed, and I saw the light. "Estrogen dominance," a term coined by John, was to become my mantra.
During the question-and-answer session of his talk, upon being called on, I went up to this man, grabbed the microphone, and ...