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I just finished reading Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix. It's a harrowing read, and I feel much more educated on pregnancy and how unwed mothers were treated in the days before legal abortion. But one thing about the story kept niggling at me. It's set in Florida in 1969, and measurements were referred to in metric. As in, how many litres of blood in a human body, and how many centimeters a cervix is dilated.
Now, maybe it's different in the medical profession, but metric wasn't introduced in Canada until the 70s when I was a little kid. And as far as I know, Americans still haven't adopted the metric system for whatever reason.
Sooo... was this something the editors didn't catch, or am I wrong about metric not being used in 1969 Florida?
#metric #medicine #Books #obstetrics #MedicalHistory
Hey, #ob/gyn #obstetrics and abdominal #surgery people, I'm writing a short story involving a women's health clinic, and my Dude the anti-abortionist is going to die.
Q. What instrument used in any of that surgery might be used to kill him?
I was thinking something like this, but maybe you have a better idea?
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"Under the #Louisiana regulation, hospitals must now keep the medications in a locked medicine cabinet. This is a stark departure from what is commonly seen on #obstetrics wards, where misoprostol in particular is stocked on postpartum hemorrhage carts that can quickly be accessed when needed. Before the law went into effect, OB wards were completing timed drills to see whether they can reach the locked cabinet before someone bleeds to death."
#enshittification of “family” medical care.
A local medical clinic chain in northern Colorado that used to be called Associates in Family Medicine got bought out a year or so ago by a national chain called Village Medical. As patients we noticed some longer delays, etc. but nothing critical. Last week they announced they were ending all #obstetrics care. All of it. Turns out AFM was the only part of the natl chain that still had it at all. Not any more.
"...researchers behind retracted studies claiming abortion drugs are dangerous are out with new policy recommendations that say when pregnancy termination is necessary, doctors should opt for procedures considered by the wider reproductive health community to carry bigger health risks, such as cesarean sections, rather than less invasive abortion procedures."
Michigan Advance · Anti-abortion researchers back riskier procedures when pregnancy termination is needed, experts say • Michigan AdvanceThe day the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, the medical board that certifies OB-GYNs in America released a statement calling legal pregnancy termination and knowledge of abortion procedures “essential to reproductive health care.” But a small number of influential anti-abortion doctors have spent the last two years trying to change the reproductive health […]
Agnodice is a legendary figure from ancient Greek history, often considered one of the first female physicians and gynecologists.
Determined to study medicine, Agnodice disguised herself as a man. She became popular among women in Athens but her male colleagues grew suspicious of her success and accused her of seducing her female patients. On trial before the Areopagus, Agnodice lifted her clothes, revealing that she was a woman.
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Media Nation · A riveting Boston Globe story about a medical disaster with ties to the local news crisisIf you haven’t seen The Boston Globe’s story about a mother who died shortly after giving birth, perhaps because the hospital lacked a device it needed to stop her bleeding, then you ha…
"U.S. health officials on Friday recommended RSV vaccinations for moms-to-be, a second new option to protect newborns from serious lung infections.
The shots should be given late in pregnancy but only during RSV season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said."
https://apnews.com/article/rsv-vaccine-infants-cdc-e30abab0c84ab22ddddc4963dad7c0ad
AP News · RSV vaccine recommended during pregnancy as a second option to protect newborns
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A small act of resistance from the female indexer of the 1980 edition of Williams Obstetrics. (Via https://twitter.com/LaraBriden) #Medical #History #Obstetrics #Indices #Feminism
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@DrLindseyFitzharris Let's just pause to remember how many women died in #childbirth to help make this #obstetrics model possible. #HistMed