The bias of reality
Stephen Colbert -- or rather " Stephen Colbert, " in his former character -- famously said that " Reality has a well-known liberal bias. " And so conservatives must deny reality, which as in the case of anthropogenic climate change means denying scientific findings, and the very integrity and authority of science. But that doesn ' t usually work very well with the courts --viz. the jury award of $1 million to climate scientist Michael Mann -- so they also result to scientific fraud.You may recall that U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled to suspend FDA approval of the abortion medication mifepristone,relying largely...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 9, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Medical malpractice or miscarriage of justice? A doctor ’ s ordeal.
In 1999, Sally Clark was convicted of murder. Her son, Christopher, had been born in September of 1996 and by all accounts, had been a healthy baby. Just three months later, an ambulance was called to the home, and the baby was dead. The mother, Sally, said that she had just put him to bed
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Medical malpractice or miscarriage of justice? A doctor’s ordeal. originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 21, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: L. Joseph Parker, MD Tags: Physician Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Navigating miscarriage: support and healing insights [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Nurse practitioner Maria Petty shares her experience with miscarriage in March 2023. She discusses the support she received from an early pregnancy assessment clinic, the importance of self-compassion, and practical tips for coping. Maria also touches on the role of faith and community support,
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Navigating miscarriage: support and healing insights [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 7, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
5 things that are helping us through a miscarriage
In March 2023, I had a miscarriage when I was 10.5 weeks pregnant. I am blessed to have a wonderful husband and loving family, two healthy sons, and supportive friends, though I still grieve at times. I share what is helping us below, in the hope of helping others: 1. Early pregnancy assessment clinic (EPAC)
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5 things that are helping us through a miscarriage originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 2, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Maria Petty, NP Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
The ERA – An Amendment Who ’s Time Has Come
BY MIKE MAGEE
Believe it or not, The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was first introduced 100 years ago in 1923. But it was only adopted by Congress by a 2/3 majority vote 49 years later in 1972. That was simply step 1 in the world’s most complex and difficult national constitutional amendment process.
Step 2, approval by 3/4 of the states, seemed off to a running start with 28 of the required 38 states signing up that first year. But 1972 was also the year that Phyllis Schafly, an outspoken supporter of patriarchy and stay-at-home motherhood, began echoing her anti-ERA message on Chicago News Radio WBBM. The followin...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy ERA Mike Magee Phyllis Schafly Source Type: blogs
Death in Childbirth
I taught a course last year in global maternal mortality so I have some idea of what I ' m talking about here. Childbirth is dangerous for women because, for one thing, thanks to evolution giving us big brains, the baby ' s head is too big for the birth canal. However, there are other complications of pregnancy that can occur. In Europe in the 19th Century, as it became common for women to give birth in hospitals, infectious disease killed a lot of mothers, thanks to the doctors transferring pathogens on their unwashed hands and unsterile instruments. Many a family was bereaved by maternal death, but it has become rare in ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 17, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 6th December 2022
Some recent things you might need to know. Remember to critically appraise any articles detailed below - mention in this column is not a statement about the robustness of the research or systematic review.Article are open access (so, free to read) unless stated otherwise.Audit I might have mentioned these before, but just in case...National Neonatal Audit Programme annual summary report on 2021 data:Ninth MBRRACE Annual Report (of the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity)ResearchSARS-CoV-2 placentitis, stillbirth, and maternal COVID-19 vaccination: clinical –pathologic correlationsBalloon ca...
Source: Browsing - December 6, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
When Push Comes to Shove: The AMA v. Dobbs. Part 2.
BY MIKE MAGEE
On November 8, 2022, five days after the 2022 Midterm elections, the AMA raised its voice in opposition to Republican efforts to promote second class citizenship for women by exerting public control over them and their doctors intensely private reproductive decisions. At the same time they sprinkled candidates on both sides of the aisle with AMA PAC money, raising questions whether their love of women includes active engagement or just passive advocacy.
Trump and his now MAGAGA (“Make America Great and Glorious Again”) movement has now returned to center stage. With the...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Supreme Court AMA Clarence Thomas Dobbs v. Jackso MAGAGA Mike Magee Roe v. Wade Source Type: blogs
Miscarriages in a post-Roe world [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “The consequences of making miscarriage management unsafe will land most heavily on the marginalized and vulnerable. Our appalling maternal mortality rate in people of color will increase by miscarrying while Black. Our country and health care system are rigged to assume criminal intent and
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Miscarriages in a post-Roe world [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 9, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Post-Roe, miscarriage is more dangerous
If guilt were an Olympic sport, mothers would win every medal. We worry we should have prevented our children’s problems or might have even caused them. Mothers tiptoe through a minefield of complex personal, family, and societal expectations that no one escapes unscathed. As an OB/GYN resident, I sought extra training to care for mothers
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Post-Roe, miscarriage is more dangerous originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 23, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Kim M. Puterbaugh, MD Tags: Uncategorized OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Bad Faith
Here ' s a lengthy discussion of the recent corporate media debacle concerning the ten year old girl who had to travel from Ohio to Indiana for an abortion. You probably know the gist of it already. The physician who performed the abortion discussed the case with reporters from the Indianapolis Star and the story made headlines around the world. Then right wing politicians and media started claiming it was false, and the Washington Post ' s " fact checker " Glenn Kessler gave them aid and comfort. (Kessler ' s " fact checks " are frequently non-factual.) The story was true, police have arrested the rapist and he has c...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 15, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Abortion, Pregnancy Loss, & Subjective Fetal Personhood
Greer Donley (University of Pittsburgh), Jill Wieber Lens (University of Arkansas), Abortion, Pregnancy Loss,& Subjective Fetal Personhood, 75 Vanderbilt L. Rev. (Forthcoming): Longstanding dogma dictates that recognizing pregnancy loss threatens abortion rights —acknowledging that miscarriage and stillbirth involve a loss,... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 1, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
On Free Speech, “Lady of Heaven,” and Sectarianism
Mustafa AkyolIn the past few weeks, some Britons had a sense of déjà vu, reminding them the censorship campaign against Salman Rushdie’s blasphemous novel “The Satanic Verses” some thirty‐five years ago. This time, the center of angst was a movie titled, “Lady of Heaven, ” which glorified the story of Lady Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad. Yet, in an unmistakably sectarian tone, the movie also demonized some of the most revered figures of Sunni Islam.Hence came protests organized by some Sunni groups, fromBradford to London, in front of movie theaters. There was no violence, but the heated r...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 22, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Mustafa Akyol Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Thou shalt not make fun of the bald
While I certainly endorse this -- the 11th Commandment -- I do think God overreacts a wee, tiny bit in this case. Most of Chapter 2 is a tedious description of the death of Elijah and the transfer of Prophet-in-Chief to his successor Elishah. Like Jesus a few hundred years later, Elijah ascends bodily into heaven, in front of witnesses. This is a bit of an anomaly because the concept of an afterlife in heaven does not exist elsewhere. (Remember that Samuel was temporarily resurrected from underground.) Anyway, Elisha performs a couple of miracles to show he really is The Man. He then goes to Bethel where 42 children m...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 5, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - in the news - 11th May 2022
First, and not so new (apologies)Dame Laura Kenny ' s experiences of ectopic pregnancy and of miscarriage.Then,a Guardian report of a new systematic review of the safety of COVID vaccines for pregnant women, and their effect in relation to stillbirths and preterm births, . I cannot at the moment find the review on the journal website (the link in the article goes to the journal home page) but I think it is theone indexed in PubMed here. And last of all,one woman ' s experiences of the pain of breastfeeding, and of what professional advice says. (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - May 11, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
