The WHO, the American Medical Association, and other organizations have issued statements condemning the participation of physicians in medically unnecessary genital modification. Infibulation and postpartum reinfibulation are illegal by an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom; no such national ...
512 Words 3 Pages Open Document Medicine was once a gender separated practice. Nearly all physicians were men and the nurse were women. In modern medicine, gender is virtually neutral across the board. However, this can create problems for patients with gender preferences, especially concerning the...
Concerned physicians Runacres and Wood report that ‘297 labial reductions [were] carried out by the National Health Service in the United Kingdom between 2008 and 2012 in children younger than the age of 14 for unknown reasons and with unknown outcomes’ ([47]:218). Simonis et al. report...
Being among an accepting and safe community amid their pain meant some women could rely on and ‘trust in God’s providence’ (FP 06) and experience a ‘blossoming’ (FP 07) of their faith/spirituality once more. Finding a community that supported and embraced them during their grief eventua...
Undeniably, the first description of FAT twenty years ago served an important role in recognition of the problem, facilitating research and drawing physicians’ attention to the fact that the condition could present in well-functioning athletes, its myopic focus no longer appears to be suitable to ...
The family APGAR: a proposal for a family function test and its use by physicians. J Fam Pract. 1978;6(6):1231–9. CAS PubMed Google Scholar Smilkstein G, Ashworth C, Montano D. Validity and reliability of the family APGAR as a test of family function. J Fam Pract. 1982;15(2)...
“In case of critical patients transferred to us who need to have emergency operations to give birth, the cost will be high. Even if we have a few cases, the expenses of the obstetric and newborn sections will be the highest amount when compared with other sections of the hospital” (HCP...