#ob/gyn

[trauma-and-preg]

Who got space for one or two parient during the holiday we need full intake exam check evrything off before being treated for supposed trauma for the vacation neck brace frequent code and diagnostic exam and procedure to do on us most probably high level of care if not full life support in icu and how know maybe we will find out that we are pregnant whit the blood test or more pregnant then we though like almost to term maybe only sky is me and sab limit for the 27 to the 2. We are curently 23 and 22 both female. If any medical team have question orwish us to fill paper work a head contact us in dm

[djuvlipen]

good news for Romani women in the UK!

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The network can support Gypsy Roma and Traveller Women to

- Get help registering with a GP

- Get help to arrange a GP appointment

- Access to Midwives 

- Advise on getting the right support

"This is a community led group" Dee, told Travellers Times "I think eventually it will be a positive move forward in terms of women’s health - but along the way we will be able to help men’s health and children too. For now, it’s all about building trust and getting those much-needed appointments and conversations going” at our first meeting in October- one woman left saying she “felt heard” after sharing her lived experience. Others had appointments booked for them that were long overdue."

In the UK, Romani women are more vulnerable to stillbirths and miscarriages, have higher maternal death rates during pregnancy and after childbirth, and are 20x more likely to experience the death of their newborn child. Reasons for that are a lack of access to proper maternal care, a lack of awareness and education about maternal care, as well as poverty and poor environmental conditions. As of 2021-2022, the Romani life expectancy in the UK was of 50 years old for both men and women (x), about 30 years shorter than that of the general British population (x).

[mcatmemoranda]

Antibody screen done at initial prenatal visit is also called the indirect antiglobulin test or indirect Coombs' test).

[a-life-in-medicine]

Highlights of the internship - Week 18:

• The last two days of paediatrics — FINALLY. And the start of internal medicine.

• When I said goodbye to the small surgical procedures room’s staff, they were like, “oh nooo. But we were so used to seeing you. We can gather signatures for you to keep you here ahaha.” 🥹🥹

• Going to miss only ob/gyn part of this hospital.

• At general medicine, I started in endocrinology clinic. We were supposed to get there 30 minutes earlier than the doctor and start admitting the patients, taking their history and getting them ready for the doctor. When she comes, we start admitting them together. This will be the sum of my two weeks here.

• I had the night shift of the first day. I don’t like the first day night shifts!! Nothing requiring an intern really happened so it was calm, at least.

• I got a text from my friend about our gynaecologic oncology attending. He told the nurses she and I are his favourites and firsts, the ob/gyn doctors of the future 🥹🥹🥹 stoppp 🥹🥹🥹

[thetetra]

[fuck-abled-people]

Fuck the ob/gyn of one of my friend who want to rush her to a dangerous operation to have her lose weight when she could do it with the help of a nutritionist. My friend want a kid and her ob/gyn doesn't want to help her if she doesn't undergo the operation.

Medical fatphobia needs to be stopped.

[brooklynpa-c]

WHEN THE HOSPITAL SERVER CRASHES AND WE HAVE A WEEK OF PAPER CHARTING

[hjellacott]

Why sometimes it is important to have FEMALE gynaecologists

When we talk about wanting female gynaecologists or obstetricians, we often talk about hypothetic things, so I thought I'd share my real, recent experience. I'm a grown up adult and yet I'd never gone to the gynaecologist before until recently. It all started last year, when my periods got odd. I won't go into details, but you know when your instinct urges you to get checked because you know in your gut that something is off? And you know it sounds insane if you say it out loud, and people don't believe you, but you know. So I contacted a GP, managed to convince him to take me seriously, and I got a referral for a gynaecologist. A year later, I was finally called for my appointment.

When I got my paper with my appointment, I was surprised to learn that the examination I was booked for was far more and more invasive / intense than I had thought it would be, so I got very anxious, because I've heard from friends who had terrible experiences at the gyn and I was worried sick. Will it hurt? Will they be too harsh? Will I bleed? Will I be really uncomfortable? Then I had worse concerns: will I have a dishonourable doctor/nurse who takes advantage of me? So I decided the best way to ease my concerns was to ensure that no males were in the room. A woman wouldn't rape me, a woman wouldn't touch me without knowledge of what it feels like, a woman would be able to be empathetic with me, put herself in my shoes, and try and help me. A woman wouldn't get turned on. A woman will also have had, at some point, her first intense examination and will understand my worries and anxiety. Men? They'll lack empathy, they'll be too brusque, they might sexually abuse me, they might hurt me simply because they don't know how delicate you need to be, or mansplain, or discard my concerns, or all of the above.

It was important for my doctor to be a woman.

Unfortunately, we live in the day and age where if you call your doctor, hospital or surgery in the NHS to try and ensure your doctor is a woman, sometimes you'll be met with the wrong person who will think you're transphobic and be really rude and disrespectful and refuse to help. It took me 2 days on the phone, calling a variety of hospitals, hospital departments and NHS numbers, until I was able to find a sweet lady who was happy to ensure my doctor was female and to my surprise, she didn't even ask me to explain why it was important to me.

In the end, my appointment went just fine. I had a young, understanding, caring, gentle and lovely female doctor who was also POC, so she actually gave me a lot of insight. I arrived saying "I'm so sorry but I've never done this before and i'm so anxious" and the whole time she was listening to me, comforting me, calming me, explaining me exactly what she was doing bit by bit, being patient, empathetic... She actually told me I'd done well coming and gotten checked and explained how important it was, even if it didn't seem like a big deal or even if I wasn't sexually active at the time. Unfortunately I was right and the doctor found evidence of a more serious health problem, so I'll be getting more tests and things, but I was so happy with the doctor I got. When she told me what I might have, which is something that runs in my family, I told her I didn't know anything about that problem, so she sat and patiently and kindly told me all she knew about it, explained it's a problem many women live with and that in ethnicities such as hers or mine, it could be even more common, but she gave me the magical line "us women have had to deal with things like this since always and we always pull through, so don't worry, there's a lot we can do" and I left not feeling worried at all, rather, empowered, calmer and confident.

So don't fucking undermine the importance of being able to choose exactly the doctor you want.

[theodoravanyar]

Of Pulled Pork and Plotting

14,304 Days Alive 2 Doctor’s Visits Tomorrow I’ve been writing again. A lot lately, trying to finish plotting out a story. Continue reading Of Pulled Pork and Plotting

[womenhealthspecialist]

Dr. Modi earned her medical degree from Guru Gobind Singh Medical College in Faridkot, India, and completed her residency at Howard University Hospital in Washington DC. She has over 14 years of OB/GYN experience and is board-certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Dr. Modi is a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and a member of HealthTap Medical Advisory Board. She’s received the VIP award from Ohio Health and was chosen among America’s Top OB/GYN physicians by the Consumers Research Council of America.

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[dual-h]

My obgyn brain: doppler? A-VM? :D

i really like this picture of two colliding galaxies and i want to write about it

isn’t it beautiful? :)

[a-life-in-medicine]

Highlights of the internship - Week 22 / Congress Edition:

• None of the hospital related events matter next to what I have lived during and for the congress of my university ahaha. I was going to make my first oral presentation this weekend and I have been preparing for it during all week.

• To say I was excited was to say the least.

• Almost every attending around us, even the dean, were saying that they were curious about our presentations and wanted to come and listen. I didn’t know I could get even more nervous?

• Especially on the presentation day, I could pass out hahah. Thankfully, I didn’t because there was a technical problem with the video I was going to show and dealing with it somehow calmed me down. My gynaecological oncology attending saved the video and me in the end though <3

• He did his oral presentation first and me and my friends looked at each other like, “after this amazing, magnificent, spectacular presentation; ours will look like sh*t” lol.

• But the liked it :’) so much :’) they but especially our gynaecological oncology attending praised us so much that I might have melted at the stage :’) he said we are like a resident in his eyes, not an intern :’) I also might not have stopped myself and thank to him and praise him while the dean was there too :’)

• So, as the future OB/GYN or gynaecological oncology doctors, me and my friend have finished this weekend in success 🥺

[thatsdoctorlindsaytoyou]

Possibly my spiciest take yet, but here we go:

Praising and lauding female celebrities for being childless is just as inappropriate and wrong as criticizing them for being childless.

We do not know these women. We don't know what's going on in their personal lives behind closed doors. Yes, being child-free might be their own free choice, and a choice that has brought them nothing but happiness, joy, and the freedom to live their life exactly as they want, for themself and for nobody else.

But maybe not.

Maybe they've had six miscarriages.

Maybe they have been struggling with infertility for ten years.

Maybe their last four relationships have fallen apart due to disagreements regarding having children.

Maybe deciding to not have children in favor of focusing on their career was the hardest decision they've ever had to make.

Or maybe not. Maybe they just don't have kids because they don't want kids, and there's literally nothing more to it than that.

The point is that WE DON'T KNOW. It's a personal decision, and they don't owe us an explanation. We just don't know.

But what I do know is this: I am training to be an obstetrician and gynecologist. I have spoken to women who are in every possible position of wanting kids, not wanting kids, still deciding if they want kids, and everything in between. I've struggled with infertility myself, as well as with the difficult decision to delay having children in favor of my career.

And whenever I read a new think-piece "thanking" Taylor Swift for "remaining child-free", I just can't help but think about the patient sitting in front of me, also 34 years old, also a passionate career woman, breaking down and crying because her latest fertility treatment didn't work, asking what's wrong with her, what's broken within her, asking why God doesn't think she deserves a baby.

And I just imagine if she had to open up her phone and read an article "thanking" her for staying child-free.

End the obsession with female celebrities having (or not having) kids.

[gwydionmisha]

CW: Rape.

[populationpensive]

Great points made above. Truly an inspired, well written explanation. The big points to put out there strictly from a medical standpoint:

"We have determined that something without brain activity is not alive"

"It is illegal to take organs or tissue from dead bodies with no brain activity without consent, but it’s legal to force a living person to act as an incubator for tissue and chromosomes that aren’t even formed to make a person yet?"

It's a strange form of cognitive dissonance for me that, as a society, we accept the aforementioned statements but cannot apply them to pregnancy.

I deal with both of these concepts all the time in the ICU. Most people can conceptualize that patients who've experienced horrific neurological injury to the point that they are cognitively unaware of their surroundings and cannot interact with those surroundings are dead. Patient families routinely tell me the things about life that their loved ones value and easily correlate the brain injury with an inability to do those things and therefore not truly have "a life" or be "alive". And mind you, this is in the context of a formerly living, breathing, conceptualized human with a personality, a career, a family, hobbies, etc. Trying to apply this to a potential human who has not experienced the things we all consider to be "living" just doesn't sit well. Additionally, my brain dead patients (or nearly brain dead patients) have inherent rights to their organs still. If they weren't an organ donor, I can't just get the donor network people involved. It is illegal.

The thing I find the most frustrating about the "pro-life" movement is that it disregards the lives of people who ACTUALLY exist. To me, if you're truly "pro-life", you value the life of the mother. The father. The baby after it is born. Its siblings. And you do that by making sure maternity/paternity leave are integral parts of every health care plan. You do that by making sure everyone who can bear a child has access to good, affordable prenatal care. You do it by supporting the schools that the baby you cared so much about bringing into existence will attend later in life. You do it by supporting social equity initiatives.

There are a lot of assumptions the "pro-life" movement makes. Like all the pregnancies are unwanted. People were irresponsible. Carrying a baby to term isn't a big deal. The issue is far more complex than that. It'd be like if I looked at someone with type II diabetes and assumed they were unhealthy and lazy when really they may have a genetic predisposition. A family history. A life where they didn't have access to nutritious food or health care.

Assumptions are useful to completely obliterate the inherent grey of complex situations to make them black and white. Few things regarding someone's health can be described that way.

*End Rant*

Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk.

Ok so I'm not going to do this anonymously because i don't fear getting chastised for my own ignorance but there are other alternatives to abortion aren't there? I mean i honestly don't understand this bill nonsense but it mostly at least to me sounds like it's just to keep children alive. I mean there are adoption centers and people who will actually pay women who are pregnant to act as surrogates. Why is anti abortion so bad? And how is this a woman's autonomy probpem. Please educate me

First, I want to thank you for acknowledging that your perspective on this may be informed from a place of systemic oppression of AFAB people, and for seeking out information. When people add on to this post with the purpose to educate, I implore you all to remember this person is seeking information. Please avoid shaming them or ridiculing them.

Let’s first address your questions:

1) “There are other alternatives to abortion aren’t there?”

Let’s first define abortion. “In medicine, an abortion is the premature exit of the products of conception (the fetus, fetal membranes, and placenta) from the uterus. It is the loss of a pregnancy and does not refer to why that pregnancy was lost. A spontaneous abortion is the same as a miscarriage. The miscarriage of three or more consecutive pregnancies is termed habitual abortion or recurrent pregnancy loss”  (Shiel MD, MedicineNet).

¼ womxn will have abortions in their lifetime. Abortion is a medical procedure that can be requested or required for a lot of different reasons:

The pregnant person may not be able to carry an embryo to term safely.

The pregnant person may not have the financial support to pay for the medical bills that pregnancy costs in the US (prenatal and delivery alone can cost around $18k).  

I also want to add that people in this country are not given any kind of financial support for the time taken off for prenatal or postnatal care. Being out of work for this time could mean entering extreme poverty.

The pregnant person may not have the financial support or stability of lifestyle to support a child.

The pregnant person may not be physically up to the task of carrying a child to term and delivering. Not all womb-having people are up to what childbirth does to the body. Childbirth is one of the most dangerous things that a body can be put through.  In the US we’re just under 20 maternal deaths per 100,000 births, which is the highest in the developed world. Some undeveloped countries have better stats than we do

Abortion may be required as an emergency life-saving procedure for the pregnant person. And waiting for approval by a committee could mean the death of that person.

Medical interference can also be needed if the embryo has already been determined unviable (basically will not ever have life) because having dead tissue remain in the womb will kill the person. Wombs don’t always do what they’re supposed to and often they will still act as if the pregnancy is going along normally when the embryo stopped growing and forming.

Abortion as a medical procedure is part of basic reproductive healthcare. Denying it is like denying the use of a c-section or blood transfusions.

I also want to add that many of these GOP states are seeking to classify any and all contraceptives as “abortion” as well. This isn’t included in this bill specifically but it’s been named as part of their agendas.

2) “I mean I honestly don’t understand this bill nonsense but it mostly at least to me sounds like it’s just to keep children alive.”According to the CDC, 91.1% of abortions are performed at ≤13 weeks�� gestation. At this time, this is an embryo and fetal tissue. It’s not a child. Pro-life people are placing the eventual *possible* life of a being that isn’t even formed yet above the autonomy and rights of a living human being (the pregnant person). A zygote without a brain or the ability to survive outside the womb is not a person, and therefore not a child. We have determined that something without brain activity is not alive. People with wombs are not incubators. This is not the sum of our existence.

Right now you cannot force a person to give blood or organs in life-saving situations. Why should it be okay to force a person to donate their entire body as an incubator if they don’t want to, which has health complications, and long-lasting effects on the body? We even afford humans that are DEAD more rights than womb-having people in this country. It is illegal to take organs or tissue from dead bodies with no brain activity without consent, but it’s legal to force a living person to act as an incubator for tissue and chromosomes that aren’t even formed to make a person yet?

Also, this bill has SO much more nuanced support for the oppression of women than just keeping “children” alive. This affords the state the right to investigate any suspicion of “intentional abortion.” This means, if a person miscarries, they may be subject to invasive investigation and murder charges on top of grieving for their loss and recovering medically. This bill also in no certain terms basically considers all womb-having people in their state to be the property of the state by allowing people to be extradited and charged if they have a LEGAL abortion procedure in another state.

3) “I mean there are adoption centers and people who will actually pay women who are pregnant to act as surrogates. Why is anti-abortion so bad?” We currently have 108,000 foster children up for adoption right this second in the US. This doesn’t even include unwanted pregnancies being given to private adoption agencies. Adopt one if you want to save a child, but forcing people to enter crippling debt, put their body through the abuse of childbirth, and possible forced poverty because of lack of childcare or compensation for missing work isn’t okay.

Additionally, anti-abortion really only seems to be concerned with one thing - popping out children. There is ZERO concern for the health, wellbeing, or survival of that child OR the parent afterward. This is oppressive and forced childbirth expectations. And again, reduces womb-having people as nothing more than a means to an end. Their life and wellbeing aren’t considered - they’re incubators.

4) “How is this a woman’s autonomy problem.”All of the above. The entire idea of denying women normal reproductive medical procedures or criminalize a natural thing that our bodies DO is inherently oppressive. Deciding that a womb-having person is just supposed to do their best to carry to term an embryo regardless of danger to their life, medical needs, e, inability to care for the child, inability to pay medical bills, or the abuse that childbirth puts on the body… and possibly condemning them to death, poverty, or life-long debt removes the ability for a person to choose what is done or what is done TO their body. It’s inherently oppressive.

Make no mistake, these bills have very little to do with saving the lives of children, and everything to do with keeping women impoverished, oppressed, and without any control over their own bodies and lives. These bills are also written and signed without ANY input or oversight primarily by the people they affect. This is not a choice that womb-having people made… these are oppressive laws being forced upon them.

Some final personal notes from me: I am currently in a place where I would suffer greatly from these laws if they were to be implemented in my state. First of all, if I were to get pregnant, mine would be a high-risk pregnancy. It is likely that I could lose the pregnancy anytime within the first two trimesters, which would require an abortive procedure to remove the remaining tissue. If I’m to get pregnant, I need to know that modern medical procedures that are agreed to be the most effective best practices would be available to me by a doctor without the threat of criminalization or debating on whether it’s necessary/legal. This affects all people who may ever become pregnant. This is a clear and present fear for us. It’s not just anti-abortion. If that’s all it was… the answer would be simple, don’t have one. If you need one to save your life, you can choose to say no. But it’s not. This is about controlling womxn, denying us healthcare, and we are afraid. We are all desperately terrified of this becoming the new normal across our country. ONE in FOUR pregnancies ends in the need for abortion. And if you need one, you get one. This is about whether or not we have access to SAFE and MEDICALLY sanctioned abortions. 

I really encourage you to do some additional research and reading from educational sites. Be wary of both FOX News, CNN, major news networks, and any journalists with a religious agenda. Further reading: https://prochoice.org/education-and-advocacy/downloads-resources/https://iwhc.org/2018/09/abortion-normal-and-vital/https://www.prochoiceamerica.org/issue/abortion-access/I’d really appreciate if any followers could tack on additional resources, statistics, and personal stories. This is SO important. 

[justletmeon12]

"So, how are you enjoying OB/Gyn?"

"..."

"Hard to say?"

"No, I'm just trying to think of an answer that doesn't use the word 'slimy.'"