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Jezebel 
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Also these "if (blah) had (blah) then (blah)" statements always strike me as insane. I mean I'm sure you could argue it's raising awareness about privelege, but these statements are just patently ridiculous the healthcare industrial complex is full of greedy vampires, they don't want to give anything free.
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"If men had wheels for feet, improper disposal of nails would be punishable by torture, chrome rims would be distributed by the state, and there's be an international coalition dedicated to turning the Atlantic Ocean into a paved skate park." - thegogglesdonothing
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Unless Kristof means that one day two dozen Senators and scores of hospital directors and insurance company executives found themselves unexpectedly pregnant. Then, perhaps, some hasty legislation might get pushed through, because they're currently in power. That leaves the question of how long they'd be able to stay in power open, though.
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It's countries like Afghanistan under the Taliban, where hospitals were sexually segregated, and the women's facilities were either woefully inadequate, or they were closed due to lack of funding. I guess Pakistan has/had a similar problem? Have things gotten any better?
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These are all his views, and he is certainly much more well-versed on the subject than I, but from what I've seen, I think he's probably spot on.
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Yes, that hospital might be shiny and well-funded, but what are women really being offered inside it? And what would they be being offered if they were the privileged ones?
Clearly, maternal mortality is less of an issue in the U.S. than in is around the world, especially in Sierra Leone, Tazania, the Middle East, the list goes on. But the point remains that if the privileged gender were the one affected, this would be an issue better addressed. As would rape.
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My brain breaks when I put any thought into these things.
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Before I read Steinem's piece, it had never occurred to me to even consider, say, a possible government subsidy on tampons (which she says would be status quo if men had periods). Or what I read as her jibe at jizz-worship: The idea that menstrual blood would be "sexy" to wives, who would be encouraged to celebrate it in the bedroom. (Ah, the fluid double standard!)
Do you see what I mean? Instead of reading it literally, read into it a commentary on double standards.
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period
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The gravely ill, perhaps a separate building as well
basically restructuring everything which isn't going to happen any time soon
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"The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug"
[www.amazon.com]
It was all pretty heart-wrenching. One anecdote was about a young doctor who had a series of women die from childbed fever. He shaved all the hair off his body and burned all his clothes, and waited six month before attending another birth... and that woman died too.
The man who first made the connection that the doctors themselves were spreading the disease was an obstetrician, and he said that he was haunted by the idea that he was an unwitting murderer to many of his patients. He died in a mental asylum.
The Victorian era was grim, dudes.
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i am also 9 weeks away from my due date.
i might just go with ignorance is bliss at this point unless prior knowledge could help me avoid one of these ailments?
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But yay for 9 weeks! :)
01/13/09
Am I alone on this one? I can't say I've ever seen this in a Miss Manners column...
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Found this out from Senior Counsel for very large, hospital chain. GROSS.
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Sorry to harp on about it. I have some doctors in my family too, but I still find this disgraceful.
01/13/09
Think about it when you enter a hospital, perhaps you enter the hospital shop and buy grapes or a magazine for your ill relative, do you then wash your hands before visiting the patient?
Most people don't, nor do they wash their hands having come in from outside, travelling on the tube etc and then visiting the patient...
The moral is wash your hands before visiting your sick relative, you'll be lowering their chances of catching MRSA significantly.
This message has been bought to you on behalf of my mother, an infection control doctor. Thank you.
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so, I think the sinks at all admittance sites is the best idea, by far
MRSA is seriously scary shit - and my damn (but lovely) husband comes home with all sorts of frightening studies for me to read - that is what I get being married to a scientists whose primary course of study was pathology
01/14/09
It's all well and good to blame the visitors etc, and don't get me wrong, I know they bring a lot into the hospitals and definitely need to be more diligent in washing their hands, but the doctors are spreading stuff between all the patients and they are the ones who should know better. It's part of their job to be hygenic and they are getting a big FAIL on that.