Category Archives: Women’s Health

Quora Query: As a Doctor, What’s the Most Shocking Thing to Transpire While Delivering a Baby?

Shocking? SHOCKING?? On the one hand, as I am not an Obstetrician, I don’t have many stories about assisting women in the delivery of their children. On the other hand, however, there was a time – when I was a … Continue reading

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Where I Wish President Trump Failure – The Washington Post

Gentle Reader – A Trump failure might doom our country, perhaps even our world. Yet I am unsure that success will be any better. How can I wish success to a man who wants to evict 11 million people from … Continue reading

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Trump Health-Care Agenda Evolves Toward Core Republican Thinking – The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-health-care-agenda-evolves-toward-core-republican-thinking/2016/11/11/a31858c4-a828-11e6-8fc0-7be8f848c492_story.html?tid=a_inl#comments   By Amy Goldstein November 11 During the brief period since his election, President-elect Donald Trump has begun to revise his health-care agenda in ways that conform more closely to the heart of Republican thinking in recent decades.On the … Continue reading

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Quora Query: Do American Physicians Allow their Patients to Die if They Have No Money to Pay for Care?

Gentle Reader – I was asked to answer this on Quora (www.Quora.com) and thought it might prove of interest.  Comments are, as always, requested. AJL =============================================== While there is much wrong with the American Health System, one of the things … Continue reading

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The Affordable Care Act – On Line Now !

Gentle Reader – Perhaps like a few of you, I have been watching with growing unease the Government shutdown brought on by the Right’s intense dislike – or so it appears to me – of our Centrist President Obama.  Driving … Continue reading

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Health Care Quality, Safety, Satisfaction: Is International Translation Possible?

A special lecture at the University of Wisconsin, Madison for a course: Politics, Health, Sociology, and their Nexus

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Quality and The Affordable Care Act

There is a great deal written on President Obama’s health care – actually mostly insurance – reform, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), much of it driven by the ideology of the writer and / or the organization for whom the … Continue reading

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Pregnancy and “Legitimate Rape” – What DOES this Mean?

Representative Todd Akin (Republican, Missouri) asserted on FOX (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw6j-weI5FE) that “..women’s bodies have ways…” to prevent pregnancy after rape; to “shut down” pregnancy after rape.  He asserts in the TV interview that   “…What I understand from Doctors…” is that after … Continue reading

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Playing Games with the Health of Women

Let’s play a game. In this game, I have figured out a way to prevent something like 400,000 abortions per year. In this game, you would assume, wouldn’t you, that having worked out a way to eliminate the need for … Continue reading

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Note from Physicians to Mr. Santorum: You are Wrong on Prenatal Tests

Gentle Readers – This note was published in the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News by five Maternal – Fetal Medicine colleagues from Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton (Ohio) as a way to ensure that the mis-statements and outright lies streaming from … Continue reading

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