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Reproductive Coercion
An outreach person from Women in Distress came to our medical school this week. Women in Distress is the local recipient of the proceeds from our performance of The Vagina Monologues. I am going to be...
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The billboard in Atlanta
The first time I had heard of turning abortion into a racial genocide issue was during the run up to the 2008 election. I was at an Obama event in Miami that was centered around Women’s Issues, and a...
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Race, pregnancy and birth, link round up and reply turned post
There has been a lot of comprehensive, thoughtful discussion of race and its intersection with reproduction on the intertubes recently. Do Black Women’s Reproductive Rights Matter? by Renee at Womanist...
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Reply turned post, IUDs as EC style
Sungold has a great post up at Kittywampus about the little known use of the copper IUD as emergency contraception. I wrote a reply, and figured I would share it here: No one seems familiar with this...
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Hands on in the boondocks
Howdy. I have been busy, as usual. Not only working at a new rotation site, which has been wonderful, but driving more than three hours a day to get to and from this site. Our medical school requires...
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All board review and no play…
I have my USMLE Step II CK on Saturday, and my COMLEX Step II CK August 1st. So, sorry I haven’t had time or mental functionality to blog much. I have tons of stuff I have wanted to share. Let’s see if...
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Reply turned post, Trisomy 18 and mental masturbation style
I can get really frustrated by people who enter into philosophical arguments about serious medical ethics questions online. Many of these people have a definite agenda, often controlling access to...
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Awesome free resource!
I am so thrilled with the free books available at Herperian.org. They are designed for ease of use and medical accuracy, and take into account limited resources in remote locations. Each of the books...
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Reply turned post, from abortion to homebirth style
Hello! Hey, I’m a doctor! Please go read this excellent article at RH Reality Check: Why Birthing Rights Matter to the Pro-Choice Movement. Here is a great quote from the author Laura Guy, who is a...
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Reply turned post, I reject your reality! style
OK for Mythbusters, not for health advocacyI have been participating in the Facebook group VBAC Facts Community for a little while now, ever since meeting the wonderful community founder Jen Kamel at...
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