I can be a midwife, a dentist, a surgeon, a GP and a farm health planner all in one day…I get a chance to be part of the story, whether it's the pre-emptive work with annual check-ups or routine farm work; problem-solving investigations into symptoms and disease; exciting surgery;...
Being an unmarried woman provides more grist to the mill. I have been inspected by random Indian ‘aunties’– we use the term very loosely in the third world – in a manner not dissimilar to how a farmer, I imagine, would inspect a cow at a farm show. One of these aunties actually ...
Health and nursing informatics among the specialties that are growing rapidly. The need for cost-effective healthcare drives the growth of these fields, and so does the need to move healthcare into the modern realm of rapid technological advancement. Healthcare can do none of these things without...
I identify with this term, but more so Traditional Birth attendant or Traditional Midwife because I do my work completely outside of patriarchal influence. I guide women to live their life in that way and to recognize the benefit of self responsibility. There is no one on earth that knows m...
had the little one it was a boy Kurtis he was placed on the table where they wipe them down I cut the umbilical cord and was saying hello to him when he stopped crying opened his eyes and turned and faced me and the midwife nearly dropped the equipment she had never seen that before...
A groundbreaking, triumphant investigation of the uterus--from birth to death, in sickness and in health, throughout history and into our possible future--from midwife and acclaimed writer Leah HazardThe size of a clenched fist and the shape of a light bulb--with no less power and potential...
I’m seeing a midwife instead of an OB. Yeah, this isn’t all that out-there, but it is a bit different from the norm I guess. I don’t have a “doctor” I’ve been seeing for prenatal care, or one I’m planning to have deliver my baby. I’m going old-school and seein...
Now I’ve heard that term once or twice removed all my life but never knew quite what it meant. Still, I argued with my THIRD cousin Colon that he was wrong. We became so embroiled in the debate that wherever we were, we would ask random people to tell us who was wrong or right....
Teens are old enough to actually help during relief and ongoing volunteer efforts and young enough that the experience will challenge and enlighten them, as it does for all of us. Teens don’t have to go to a third world country to volunteer and make a difference, however. ...
Why do you identify with the term radical doula? I identify with this term, but more so Traditional Birth attendant or Traditional Midwife because I do my work completely outside of patriarchal influence. I guide women to live their life in that way and to recognize the benefit of self resp...