I recently read about the increase in mother suicides. The article said that many women kill themselves and their children long after they are out of the hospital. Dr. Kirsten Patrick (in an editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal) said we should monitor this more closely. In my opinion, its easy to blame post partum depression, depression or […]
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Recent research shows that female doctors were more likelt to prescribe flu shots, cancer screening and cholesterol testing that male doctors. Interesting. Dr Erica Frank from UBC led the study. [Source: Vancouver Sun, 9 April 2013]
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You may know that women have been fighting to have midwives recognized by the medical profession for about 200 years. So it’s interesting that this week that in the name of saving money on medical costs, the BC government decided to give $2million to UBC to expand the midwives program – from 10 students to 20.
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An article in the London based Daily Telegraph reports that sex-selective abortions are fairly widespread and doctors are well aware of the problem. Although most doctors consider this practice unethical, since the issue has never been tested at law, many turn a blind eye. I think that even if doctors choose not to stop these
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This week at the University of British Columbia a panel spoke about the growing medicalization of women’s’ sexuality. The 2009 documentary “Orgasm Inc.” was shown. One panellist, Joy Johnson, Head of the Institute of Gender and Health said that women have been fed a cultural belief that there is something wrong with them if they
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One doctor is fighting the killling of girls in embryo. According to the Canadian Medical Assocation Journal Dr Kale is urging doctors to not tell parents the gender of their fetuses until 30 weeks into pregnancy. Research shows that many Canadians (like many from China and India ) do not want girls and abort them more opften than boys.
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