New York Consolidated Laws, Public Health Law - PBH § 2496. Written summary regarding hysterectomy

1. the common diagnoses for which hysterectomy is a common treatment including but not limited to uterine leiomyofibroma, endometriosis, disorders of menstruation, premalignant or malignant changes in uterus or cervix and salpingo-oophoritis;

2. alternative treatments to hysterectomy for such diagnoses, in accordance with accepted medical practices;

3. the types of hysterectomy including radical, subtotal abdominal, total abdominal and vaginal;

4. the common physiological changes, side effects, risks and benefits which result after each type of hysterectomy or alternative is performed;

5. that the hysterectomy is irreversible, results in infertility and the end of menstruation;  and

6. an oophorectomy, a treatment often associated with hysterectomy, including unilateral, bilateral and salpingo-oophorectomy.