Gynecology

What do you picture when you hear the word love? Is it a long walk on the beach or a kiss in the rain? A white tablecloth dinner or a dozen red roses? Do you picture John Cusack holding a boombox outside Diane’s window or do you hear Paul McCartney singing ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’? In any case, it is evident that the word ‘love’ has many different definitions and personal connotations. So while research has recently begun to explore the complex neural basis behind this powerful emotion, it is my…

There are so many different forms of contraceptives; Barrier method, such as Condoms, cervical caps, cervical shields, contraceptive sponge and diaphragm; Hormonal Methods such as the patch, vaginal rings, pills and shots. Implantable devices: such as surgical sterilization, implants, and intrauterine devices. One of the safest methods was said to be the condom. Condoms are said to be effective not only toward pregnancy, but effective against STD’s. Recent study shows that the spermicide…

Sex education is essential to the younger generation in keeping them aware of the risks following sexual activities. While teaching sex education to children has diminished over the years, in actuality, society finds this as an arguable debate on whether it should or should not be taught in schools. Many people feel that morals are lowered when the use of condoms and anti-fertility are introduced in schools. Parents sense that this form of education urges adolescents to experiment instead of…

Abortion has become the current hot topic in the United States due to its divisiveness. It is such a controversial topic because of the various norms, values, and institutions that society has constructed. The social norm of getting married and raising children has a heavy influence upon the many young girls that visit the abortion clinics. Furthermore, it is scandalous to be a young single parent. One also has to take into account the difficulty of raising a child on one income. Many girls…

While practicing nursing at VGH in the urology and gynecology units, I have participated in discharge teaching for my assigned patients, a total of three times. The discharge teaching consisted of being sent home with leg bags, dalteparin injections, daily tasks and going over their prescriptions. During that process, I have observed the nurses going over the medications prescribed after discharge from the hospital. I am now aware that there are many patients who will be prescribed…

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BACKGROUND : Pre term labour is the major cause of preterm birth that affects 12 – 18 % of all births in India. Cervical shortening (effacement) is one of the first steps in the parturition process, preceding labor by several weeks. As cervical length decreases in the second trimester, the risk of spontaneous preterm birth increases , especially when effacement occurs early in the second trimester . Because effacement begins at the internal cervical os and progresses caudally , it is often…

Everybody has a group of morals and ethics that they hold true to, but what really are morals and ethics. Most people can explain what their personal and even societal ethics are, but no one can seem to define them. To me, ethics are an agreed upon, by society, set of rules and guidelines that everyone should follow. Different people may have different ethics for different situations though. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines ethics as “the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and…

Assessment Undoubtedly, the causality of infant mortality disparity seen among African American soon-to-be mothers is a major public health concern. It may not be one that can simply be measured by disparities in adulthood but shaped across an individual’s lifetime and potentially across generations as Freire (2000) eluded to in Pedagogy of the oppressed. In Orange County, FL whether the concerns streamed from Oppression or Residential Segregation or other additional factors, focusing on…

In the summer of 1978, ten women of Mexican origin sued Doctor James Quilligan and the Los Angeles County Hospital for a violation of their civil and constitutional rights by forcible sterilization. These women claimed that they were either coerced into signing the sterilization consent forms, signed them under duress, could not read the English consent forms, or were not given any consent forms at all. Representatives Antonia Hernandez and Charles Nabarrete argued that the plaintiffs were…