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Category: Public Health, Medicine, and Science
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Today's post is from Carole Joffe, author of Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us (forthcoming in early 2010). Joffe is professor of sociology at the University of California-Davis and a researcher at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California-San…
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Amy Seidl looks at the gap between what was achieved and what was needed in Copenhagen.
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Danielle Ofri is a physician at Bellevue, a public hospital. Recently, she found herself interacting with Bellevue not as a doctor but rather as the parent of a patient.
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While the healthcare debate rages on, Carole Joffe shares stories of women and families who have been affected by difficult health decisions and widely varying insurance coverage for medically necessary abortion.
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A look at how prisons fail the mentally ill from David Chura, author of I Don’t Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup.
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Today's post is from Marilyn Sewell, Minister Emerita at the First Unitarian Church in Portland, Oregon. Sewell is the author of Breaking Free: Women of Spirit at Mid-Life and Beyond and Resurrecting Grace: Remembering Catholic Childhood, and the editor of two collections of poetry, Claiming The Spirit Within: A Sourcebook of Women's Poetry and Cries…
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Today's post is from Danielle Ofri, writer and practicing internist at New York City's Bellevue Hospital. She is the editor-in-chief of the Bellevue Literary Review. Her newest book is Medicine in Translation: Journeys with my Patients. This post originally appeared at her Medicine in Translation blog at Psychology Today. “Angelina Gomez,” the medical assistant hollers…
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Nancy Gift took her battle over herbicide application on the lawns at her children’s school all the way to the top.
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If asked what a doctor does, most people would probably come up with the standard description of diagnosing and treating disease. But that turns out to be only a part of the job, often a very small part.
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In honor of National Midwifery Week, midwife Patricia Harman recalls how she was called to this demanding and rewarding line of work.
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