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We like to think that doctors are somehow superior to the rest of us. After all, doctor knows best, right? We want to believe that they are wiser, more skilled, more honest than we are—except a new survey finds that, in fact, they're not always as honest as you might think. More »
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More maimed patients have come forward to corroborate an accusation that a transsexual woman posing as a doctor has been going around injecting toxic chemicals into people's posteriors. More »
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After a pre-trial circus and delay in announcement of of nearly American Idol results show proportions, the verdict is in: Dr. Conrad Murray was found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson and the ensuing birth of 5,000 mediocre pop stars' efforts to rechristen themselves "the new King of Pop." The former charge carries a maximum penalty of 4 years in prison and loss of his medical license, and the latter charge carries no criminal penalty, but it probably should. More »
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The doctor's office is a place where we're often at our most vulnerable. And when doctors are judgmental, be it about our sexual history, our relationship status, our orientation, or our weight, it can be hard to know how to respond. Below, some tips on handling this difficult situation. More »
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If you're a doctor or a nurse, the next time you're looking at a troubling sore or coated in someone else's bodily fluids, you should remember the Swedish people still find you sexy. In an online poll, doctors and nurses were tied for most alluring profession, which may have something to do with Grey's Anatomy airing in Sweden. Women said cooks have the second sexiest job, which makes sense. Being able to produce a delicious baked good is never a bad thing. More »
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A survey of 1,800 practicing ob-gyns found that while 97 percent of them have encountered a woman seeking an abortion, only 14 percent are willing or able to provide them. More »
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According to a report by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, some physicians are suggesting that "as many as a third of all women should give birth 'without a doctor going anywhere near them'." More »
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And no, it's not because of the rapture. More »
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If you're an overweight woman in South Florida, you may have trouble getting your annual pap smear — gynecologists in the region are starting to turn away women solely because of their weight. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5802720&view=rss&microfeed=true Dr. Ted Eisenberg is the world's most prolific boob job surgeon. He is also a champion knife-thrower: "My work spills into my hobby, and my hobby spills into my work. I bring that work focus to my knife-throwing." This… [Gawker] More »
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Scientists now think Chopin may have suffered from epilepsy. So, who else has been the posthumous non-beneficiary of retrospective diagnosis? More »
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Paul Mason, who once weighed almost 1,000 pounds, is suing Britain's National Health Service for improperly diagnosing his eating disorder. Mason says he hopes to "set a precedent so no one else has to get to the same size." More »
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An osteopath charged with "a litany of perverse transgressions" is accused of inviting staffers to watch an insemination… This, after he'd had the couple get it on in the office bathroom. More »
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Kristina Ross has been arrested for giving several women breast exams in Idaho nightclubs while posing as plastic surgeon "Berlyn Aussieahshowna." Ross, who is transgendered, gave out a real doctor's number and was caught when people called to confirm appointments More »
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A Polish woman died because doctors kept refusing to treat her colon condition. The reason: they were worried she might miscarry. More »
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A Finnish court has acquitted a doctor charged with malpractice and sexual abuse after he sucked a 20-year-old patient's nipple. She had complained of fluid discharge, and he said she consented to what was described as "an old midwives' trick." More »
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Ana Jimenez-Salgado received $198,000 in a settlement on Tuesday; she underwent a completely unnecessary double mastectomy after being misdiagnosed with breast cancer. More »
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Gastric bands are becoming an increasingly common fix for many overweight patients. While safe in the short term, some fear that we simply don't know enough about the long-term effects to keep pushing the procedure — especially on teens. More »
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At 100, Dr. Walter Watson is the oldest practicing physician in the country. He's stopped doing obstetrics, but estimates he delivered between 15,000 and 18,000 babies, or nearly 10% of the Augusta, Georgia population. Click to watch. More »
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The Daily Mail isn't exactly known for its progressive view of women. Then again, neither are Russian men. What happens when you bring the two together? Disaster. Pure and simple. More »
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•  A report commissioned by the Beer Academy says beer is one of the healthiest alcoholic drinks available, for both body and mind. After exploring the psychological and social benefits of downing a few bottles, the report argued. More »
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Once, during a painful examination, a female gynecologist snapped at me, "You think this is hard for you? Imagine how I feel." According to a tidbit in the Times today, I might be better off with a male doctor. More »
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After years of condemning the practice, the American Academy of Pediatrics has rewritten their policy on female genital mutilation, advocating for state laws to allow doctors to give a "ritual nick" to girls' genitalia. More »
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"They are talking to me the entire time," Dr. Robert. L. True says of his patients who opt to be "awake" during implant surgery. Yikes! More »
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A guy from Minneapolis is suing CBS for broadcasting clips of his penis surgery and tricking him into discussing his peen on The Doctors. He also claims they read a fake letter describing his bumpy member. [MediaBistro] More »
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• Good news for undersexed ladies: Scientists may be close to developing a libido-boosting pill for women. The drug was initially developed as an antidepressant, but trials showed it made participants no happier, but a little hornier. •  More »
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Edward Erin has been sentenced to 6 years for attempting to administer poison to his then-pregnant lover. The doctor slipped abortion-inducing drugs into Bella Prowse's tea and coffee, but luckily she noticed, and has since welcomed a healthy boy. [BBC] More »
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• Dr. Edwin Erin, who, as we mentioned earlier today, has been charged with poisoning his pregnant lover, is claiming that Bella Prowse spiked her own drink in an attempt to frame him. • More »
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Dr. Edwin Erin has been charged with attempting to poison his pregnant lover after police found miscarriage drugs in the bottom of her tea cup. Erin tried three times, but Prowse recently gave birth to a healthy boy. [Independent] More »
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The upcoming trial of a 19-year-old Australian girl charged with procuring her own miscarriage has lead obstetrician Caroline De Costa to advise doctors to stop prescribing "non-surgical abortions" because of the legal loophole responsible for this sorry case. [News.com.au] More »
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Though Obama is considering a repeal of Bush-era regulations that allow health care providers to refuse to give treatment that conflicts with their beliefs, most states have older laws that still safeguard "provider conscience." More »
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Bernadine Healy, M.D. of US News' Heart-to-Heart blog sounds off on what the media has "missed" in regards to the study that showed that virginity pledges are ineffective. However, Dr. Healy misses some points herself. More »
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• The US government has cut off USAID funding of contraceptives to clinics run by Marie Stopes International because the government alleges the organization supports forced abortions and the national family planning program in China, which MSI denies. • A survey of 20 men and 20 women found that people prefer cars with masculine "power" traits, i.e. those that sit lower and wider and have angled headlights. • The Georgia Supreme Court ruled in favor of transgendered politician Michelle Bruce today after two political opponents filed a lawsuit against her claiming she mislead voters about her gender in the 2003 and 2007 elections for Riverdale City Council. • More »
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Female medical students underestimate their abilities and are less self-confident than their male counterparts, according to a new study published in the journal Patient Education and Counseling. Researchers observed and tested third-year medical students and found that though the female students performed equal to or better than male students, the women questioned their own competence and appeared less self-confident to patients. Men, on the other hand tended to overestimate their abilities and by the end of medical school had greater identification with the role of doctor than female students with the same experience. [Science Daily] More »
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There's a new movie being made about James Miranda Barry, who lived her life disguised as a man, secretly becoming the first woman to graduate as a British doctor. Believed to have been born Margaret Ann Bulkley in Ireland, Barry enrolled in med school under her uncle's name and went on to become a high-ranking medical office, a pioneer in sanitary surgerr and the first British surgeon to successfully perform a C-section. Although she is believed to have borne a child, it seems Barry kept the deception up until her death at 70, when a charwoman is said to have exclaimed, 'The devil, a general! It's a woman. And a woman that has had a child!' In the movie version, she has a torrid forbidden love affair. Obvs. [Guardian] More »
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Remember that infuriating memo draft from the department of Health and Human services that was meant to protect the rights of anti-choice doctors but actually managed to define birth control as abortion? Well the real memo is out, and while it doesn't have language related to birth control, it still will allow doctors “to practice according to their conscience,” HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt says. “Doctors and other health care providers should not be forced to choose between good professional standing and violating their conscience. Freedom of expression and action should not be surrendered upon the issuance of a health care degree.” [HHS] More »
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A male journalist in England tries the Michael Phelps 12,000-calories-a-day diet. Spoiler: He doesn't get Phelps' athletic bod. • The Vagina Monologues gets revived in Russia, even though the word "vagina" had to be altered on posters because of censure of the word for being "vulgar." • The repeated use of four skin moisturizers showed an increase risk of developing skin cancer in mice. • TV shows like CSI and other factors may be linked to an increased amount of women entering forensic scientist programs, where 75% of the graduation population are women. • More »
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"Mothers who work and those who stay home often end up judging one another," writes Maya Dollarhide Lucca in a CNN article about working moms. Shocker. But this issue will not go away, and the two sides are each adamant that they are right. Dr. Scott Haltzman, a clinical psychiatrist and an assistant professor at Brown says: "It's very clear to me, from what I've seen in my clients, that children who are put in day care, not raised by their mothers at home, feel a real loss. They feel the absence of those parents and it affects how they want to parent their own children." But author/psychologist Debra Condren counters: "Each time the media reports an interview with yet another professional woman who has seen the light and taken time out for motherhood, everyone breathes a collective sigh of relief. Finally, this woman has figured out what's really important. But keeping yourself from your own ambitions, dreams and career goals can be soul destroying." More »
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Many doctors are reluctant to probe patients about possible domestic abuse, but studies show that merely asking a battered woman if she has been abused can help her. Barbara Gerbert, director of the Center for Health Improvement and Prevention at UC San Francisco tells the New York Times, "Just by asking, you may be planting a seed for change." Even years later a woman might remember her doctor reaching out to her and be moved to ask for help. Experts are recommending that doctors now screen for domestic abuse even when there is no physical evidence, as domestic violence is, "more common in women than many diseases for which doctors regularly check, including breast and colon cancer, and its health risks are well documented," according to Dr. Erin Marcus, associate medical director of the Institute for Women’s Health at the University of Miami, writing for the Times. More »
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According to a forthcoming study from Washington & Lee University School of Law Prof. Robin Fretwell Wilson, women with MBAs, MDs and JDs are much more likely to get divorced than men with the same graduate degrees. Fretwell Wilson tells the Wall Street Journal: "It's like the Virginia Slims ad — we've come so far — but, man, we haven't come so far...women can't have it all because there is a social stigma to having or being a stay-at-home spouse." Women with MBAs have divorce rates that are higher than women with only bachelor degrees, while women with MDs and JDs have lower divorce rates than women who are merely college educated. Female doctors and lawyers, however, are still more likely to get divorced than men who are doctors and lawyers, Fretwell Wilson's study shows. Wilson's advice to high achieving women: they "should be targeting particularly loving and supportive men." [WSJ] More »
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