Clinton Fights On
No doubt Clinton’s relatively new vocalization in favor of reproductive health rights has something to do with her massive campaign debt*, but I don’t care. I’ll take it. Today Clinton made two gutsy press releases via blog in order to take a stand against the Bush administration’s latest attempt** to put common forms of contraception [...]
...read moreVictims Partly To Blame For Nurse’s 20 Year Pattern Of Sexual Abuse?
From the BBC: David Britten, 54, a former manager at the Peter Dally Clinic in Pimlico, central London, preyed on patients over a 20-year period. Claims by patients of sexual misconduct emerged after his dismissal from the clinic in 2002 over unrelated issues. The NHS launched an inquiry in 2006 into how he escaped detection.[...] [...]
...read moreMedical Rape and the Medicalization of Childbirth
On medical rape: This is one of those inter-blogular stories that I inevitably end up misrepresenting because I haven’t followed most of it, but from what I can tell, it’s ugly. Check out that link for the backstory. Here’s the general run-down: A radical feminist blogger named Debs put up a post about undergoing a [...]
...read moreThe (Lack of) Medical Treatment Received by ICE Detainees
Last week, Miss Sarajevo left a comment with a link to this series of articles in The Washington Post, and I’m just finally getting around to writing about it. The series, “Careless Detention,” is about the terrifying, unethical and downright inhumane medical treatment of immigrants imprisoned by ICE, generally while fighting or awaiting deportation for [...]
...read moreUpdate: Iscoa Will Remain in U.S.
Good news, folks: Sonia del Cid Iscoa will not be forcibly (or apparently otherwise) deported to Honduras. Even better, her condition has improved markedly and at an exceptional rate. (Thanks to Lindsay for the update.) St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center on Tuesday reached agreement with lawyers representing Sonia del Cid Iscoa, ending an international [...]
...read moreHospital Attempts Deportation of Woman With Inadequate Insurance
An immigrant woman from Honduras who has very recently awakened from a coma is being threatened with what can effectively be called deportation, because she does not have the insurance needed to cover her medical bills. (Don’t read the comments in these articles unless you want to lose your lunch.) But here is the real [...]
...read moreWomen in Medicine
The New York Times has an interesting video up about increasing numbers of med students going into more lifestyle-friendly fields like dermatology. It’s made even more interesting by the woman featured in it, who, in addition to being my college room mate’s older sister, has some good insights into how the male-dominated medical profession has [...]
...read moreAnother example of lousy health reporting
I saw the AP version of this article yesterday*, and I was immediately struck by what was missing. Sad to say, the Times version isn’t any better: Weight-loss surgery works much better than standard medical therapy as a treatment for Type 2 diabetes in obese people, the first study to compare the two approaches has [...]
...read moreThe BBC says: humour “comes from testosterone.”
Holly says: bad reporting “comes from the BBC.”
If you’ve kept track of the scant number of posts I’ve contributed to Feministe over the past half-year, you may have realized that I get very irritated when I come across blatantly misleading “science” reporting. (I guess it must come from being raised by scientists, then working in the media.) So my eyeballs bulged and [...]
...read moreAs long as we’re talking about medical costs…
…several commenters in the AMA thread mentioned drug costs, and Anna applauded one academic center’s banning of drug reps. Thanks for the segue, people!
...read moreThe default option
I just created a new chart on my electronic medical record. I typed in the patient’s name, her date of birth and her phone number, and then I chose from the dropdown menus for sex and marital status. The blanks are automatically filled in, but this patient is a married woman so I had to [...]
...read moreThank the AMA
Live in the US? Uninsured? Underinsured? In the Medicare donut hole? Stuck in a job you hate because you need the benefits? Thank the AMA. Medicare was proposed in the 1930s when Social Security was enacted. You may have noticed that Medicare didn’t actually exist until the 1960s. That’s in large part because the AMA [...]
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