#ob-gyn — Public Fediverse posts
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Also guys / people who don't get periods need the HPV vaccine too. It's a virus: Human Papilloma Virus effects are not restricted to one organ.
Relevant period advice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjvn4Uc4xWM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg5gZ5Qzwwk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_W2-L9-jAE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llqbYlhfgZU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQDx4JtU3vE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t3fseRvzLs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez88w5dd1oU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDA5z4z-8gMI strongly recommend telling all docs about CareVix (a suction tool, not stabby or piercing) and YonaCare speculum.
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@anna_lillith I like the idea, but I'd really like if they included advice to have the patient insert it themself.
They said "like a tampon", so include the option to direct the consultation.
Doc wants it wider? Let the patient squeeze the control thing. Doc wants to angle it? Ask if the patient can do it, or hold it steady.Less "you are an unruly experiment" and more "ah yes, let's collaborate on this mutual project of my vaj health".
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Hey, isn't that weird to call it ObGyn or OBGYN instead of, say, GynOb or GYNOB?
You have a vaj and gut sack before you have anything in there, obviously.https://zerotofinalsshop.com/products/zero-to-finals-obstetrics-and-gynaecology
Also the trans mascs might like to go see a Guy Knob doctor, idk.
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Symptom: Assigned Female At Birth
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German #ObGyn residents are severely dissatisfied with #ultrasoundtraining
🗝️issues
Lack of supervision & structure (87% absence), high self-reliance (47%) & low confidence in pathologyDoes this mirror your training context?
Let's discuss global reform!
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New hospital in texas will not have the ability to deliver babies. Compounding this is the flight of OBGYN who do not want to deal with the texas taliban. 60% of rural areas in the state cannot deliver babies. The exodus and lack of care is being felt as maternal deaths spike as well. Also the hospitals that do are inundated as they have to absorb surrounding areas that cannot.
This is assuming rural hospitals even survive the bill that the taliban voted for in regards to health care cuts
#healthcare #health #hospital #texas #maternity #maternaldeath #obgyn
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/13/texas-rural-hospital-olney-labor-delivery/
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The FDA approved the first at-home cervical cancer screening in May. Texas is the eighth state to have access to the test as Teal Health rolls the product out state-by-state.
#HealthScience #Healthcare #News #Texas #CervicalCancer #Fda #HealthCare #Hpv #OBGYN #Obstetrics #PapSmearTest #ReproductiveHealth #RuralTexas #SexualHealth #WomensHealth
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BTW, you should know that the $377 million U.S. cut to UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund, the global org’s women’s reproductive care agency) funding this year is COSTING LIVES.
Women and girls across the globe — including pregnant women, mothers, and young girls — face higher risks of maternal death and unintended pregnancy while childbirth care is disrupted, contraception becomes scarce, and services for survivors of violence shrink. Adolescent girls are robbed of education, forced into child marriages, and brutalized by female genital mutilation.
In regions impacted by conflict, climate emergencies, and humanitarian disasters, UNFPA-supported clinics are being forced to close or reduce safe deliveries and emergency obstetric care. #TrumpAdministration #RepublicansDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #women #girls #OBGYN #UNFPA #FamilyPlanning -
1. https://www.mkuh.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Women-with-Disabilities-and-Special-Needs-Guideline.pdf
2. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/7/e016757
3. https://rcm.org.uk/blog/2025/06/improving-maternity-care-and-support-for-pregnant-women-with-disabilities/
4. https://birthrights.org.uk/factsheets/disability-and-long-term-health-conditions-and-maternity-care/
5. https://criplife.co.uk/pregnancy-and-disability-ensuring-inclusive-maternity-care-for-prospective-disabled-mothers/
6. https://www.ableize.com/health-and-fitness/pregnancy-and-parenthood/I guess obstretics is My New Thing.
#maternity #pregnancy #ObGyn #Obstetrics #pregnant #nativity #disabled #DisabledJoy #DisabledFedi #disability #MedMastodon #med #meds #medicine #medical
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https://www.mkuh.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Women-with-Disabilities-and-Special-Needs-Guideline.pdf "Appendix 1: MOTHERS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES GUIDANCE TOOL
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Value family – Involve individuals who best know the woman with learning disabilities as they can provide additional information that may be helpful to the decision-making process.
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Avoid making assumptions – Do not assume that because someone has a diagnosis of a learning disability that they cannot be good enough parents
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Look for support – Professionals should not work in isolation and should involve learning disability services for further support and guidance.
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Understand emotions – Take into consideration that many mothers with learning disabilities have their own anxieties and worries about motherhood and fear of judgment. Do not assume they are being difficult.
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Establish reasonable adjustments – Professionals should put reasonable adjustments into place to ensure women with learning disabilities can comprehend and understand information to give informed consent. I.E. easy read, pictorials, large font, visual and hearing aids.M
Mental Capacity – Do not assume capacity. In liaison with the Mental Capacity Act 2005, professionals should consider completing a Mental Capacity Assessment (MCA) to establish whether the women can give informed consent. Professionals should also consider best interest, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) and involving an Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA).
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Efficient discharge – Professionals should consider possible support that can be put into place to ensure a person-centered discharge is consolidated. Consider, access to health and additional services, transport, financial support and accommodation.THINK... VALUE ME"
#maternity #pregnancy #ObGyn #Obstetrics #pregnant #nativity #disabled #DisabledJoy #DisabledFedi #disability #MedMastodon #med #meds #medicine #medical
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Omfg. Read section 3.4 "Learning Disabilities support" on page 5. Literally everyone will be helped by these suggestions, not just diagnosed disabled people.
https://www.mkuh.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Women-with-Disabilities-and-Special-Needs-Guideline.pdf
"3.4 Learning Disabilities support
Although 7% of people with learning disabilities become parents ( Best Beginnings) the Equality Act 2010 obligates responsibility to service providers to ensure that reasonable adjustments are put into place to ensure the holistic needs of people with learning disabilities are met to the highest standards.
Remember to think VALUE ME! (Appendix 1)1. Early intervention strategies should be considered. Ensure that the community midwife is involved and if they are under 20 consider discussion with the specialist teenage pregnancy midwife for additional support.
2. Professionals should ensure that adequate time is provided for consultations, appointments and formal discussions. Taking time to allow the woman to understand the information in
order to make an informed decision.
3. Professionals should ensure that reasonable adjustments are put into place to aid with understanding. Including: easy read, pictorials, large font, visual and hearing aids.
4. Abilities led practice rather than inabilities led practice. Professionals should avoid making assumptions based on a diagnosis of a learning disability as often mothers will have their own anxieties, fears and worries regarding motherhood.
5. Avoid assuming that mothers are being difficult. Consider other possible reasons such as the environment, loud noises, bright lights (especially if they have a dual diagnosis of learning disability and ASD), sensory needs, stress and anxiety. Provide a side room if possible."#maternity #pregnancy #ObGyn #Obstetrics #pregnant #nativity #disabled #DisabledJoy #DisabledFedi #disability #MedMastodon #med #meds #medicine #medical
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This is a really important petition. We need to end the horrific practice of carrying out gynecological procedures without pain relief.
'End painful NHS gynecological procedures performed without anaesthetic and pain relief'
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Our latest in AJOG Global Reports from a great collaboration.
Prospective determination of heat shock protein serum levels in Saskatchewan women during pregnancy (open access)
#ReproHealth #ObGyn #Pregnancy #Labour #Biomarkers #Science #Canada #Saskatchewanhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666577825000942
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Kat Cammack, a Florida Republican, struggled to get care for an ectopic pregnancy due to her state’s abortion ban.
Is she fighting to change the ban? Talking about those who’ve lost their lives?
No. She’s blaming the left. Saying it’s pro abortion “fear mongering” that caused the delay.
She’s blaming the very people who’ve been trying to save her & those like her.
Her delay was caused by healthcare workers fearing criminal prosecution.
They can’t intervene until it’s clear the life of the mother is in jeopardy.
It’s a horribly difficult judgment call no healthcare worker should ever be forced to make.
Shame on Kat for not taking her experience and using it to save lives.
#uspoli #florida #abortion #abortionishealthcare #misogyny #healthcare #obgyn
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'Evaluation of Cesarean Sections According to Robson Criteria in a Tertiary Care Center: A Cross-sectional Study' - a #Research article in the 'Advocacy for Maternal and Women’s Health' collection by Jaypee Brothers Publishing on #ScienceOpen:
🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=db08a00b-dc01-4d4b-af33-ba78827f3f4d
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What’s worse, Adriana tried to get medical care for her headaches. She knew something was wrong. Despite being a nurse, she was dismissed.
When I had my hysterectomy complication, I was sent home 3 times from ER. Gaslit & told I was fine
I survived based on luck because I had a man to fight for me:
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/my-most-dangerous-er-experience-and
#adrianasmith #misogyny #ableism #disability #patriarchy #eugenics #healthcare #obgyn
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Adriana Smith was a 30 Year old pregnant, black woman who tried to seek medical care for severe headaches.
She was dismissed and sent home with brain bleeds
She died the next day. She’s suffered brain death, yet her body is being kept alive because she was 9 weeks pregnant.
One of the first questions I had was whether she had an Advance Directive or DNR, as healthcare workers know how important those documents are.
Did you know only EIGHT US States allow pregnant people full autonomy over what happens in the case of catastrophic illness or injury?
The rest can (and do) overrule the patient’s wishes.
Pregnancy is dangerous. Women have been stripped of their autonomy in life AND death.
https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/bioethics/article/view/8173
#abortionishealthcare #uspoli #fascism #pregnancy #autonomy #disability #obgyn #adrianasmith
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CW: S.a. Columbia University
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viniCZanVtI
'#ColumbiaKNEW': Survivors Win Historic $750 M From #University and #Hospital #OBGYN sexual abuse case
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‘Everything is Obstetric Violence Now’: Identifying the Violence in ‘Obstetric Violence’ to Strengthen Socio-legal Reform Efforts
Camilla Pickles 2024"Thinking in terms of a ‘continuum of violence’ in reproductive healthcare ensures that different forms of obstetric violence are recognised and helps envisage overlaps with other violences."
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In my twenties, I was denied a medically necessary hysterectomy because I “might meet a man who wants kids”
I fought for years to get the surgery, spending weeks out of every month stuck in a hospital bed needing iron and blood transfusions. Too disabled to work. Fainting almost daily. In constant pain.
No matter how sick I got, the hypothetical future husband and baby came before my health. What these imaginary beings might want was more important than what I needed.
When I finally had the surgery, I had a severe post operative complication. The surgeon didn’t believe me. She sent me home.
I had to go to the ER four times before they found the life threatening internal bleed. Each time dismissing me as “attention seeking” or accusing me of not understanding some pain was to be expected.
My then boyfriend saved my life. He got loud and refused to take me home, saying he was convinced I would die.
It turns out, he was right. I had a giant bleed in my belly and an infected abscess that had been growing for weeks while they gaslit and ignored me.
It was a hell of a crash course in medical misogyny, as well as the need to always have an advocate in healthcare settings:
#misogyny #disability #chronicillness #patriarchy #womenshealth #disability #obgyn #hysterectomy #childfree #medicalmisogyny #disabilityjustice
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@broadwaybabyto Oh but can my mother name this song in just one note.
#misogyny #patriarchy #womenshealth #bodilyautonomy #obgyn #mybodymychoice
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Women’s rights and bodily autonomy are under attack, but it’s important we remember the role medical misogyny plays in endangering our lives.
It’s not new, and it’s only getting worse.
When I wanted a tubal ligation, I was denied because I wasn’t married and thus couldn’t get my husband’s ‘permission’.
When I was told I was unlikely to survive a pregnancy, I asked again and again I was denied because I might ‘meet a man who wants kids.’
When I needed a hysterectomy, doctors sought the permission of my 22 year old boyfriend of less than THREE months. They asked him if he would leave me when I became ‘barren’.
Men who want a vasectomy do not have to jump through these hoops. Their body, their choice.
None of us should need a man to consent in order to get the care we want and need.
It’s archaic, patriarchal bullsh*t and we must keep calling it out.
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/pregnancy-will-likely-kill-you-but
#misogyny #patriarchy #womenshealth #bodilyautonomy #obgyn #mybodymychoice
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Medical errors kill, maim and traumatize. As a disability advocate, I hear stories of medical negligence almost every day. I’ve got more than a handful of my own stories.
Few are as egregious a this one.
A young woman seeks help for abdominal pain. At first she’s dismissed as having PCOS.
They later find a 25cm (!!!) cyst on her ovary and proceed to do a total hysterectomy and resect part of her bowel and appendix.
She barely survives, and when she regains consciousness in the ICU is told she’s lost her womb and has stage four cancer.
That alone would be difficult to deal with, but then she’s later told she doesn’t have cancer and the hysterectomy and surgical menopause were unnecessary.
She tries to focus on the positive (not dying of cancer), only to have the medical team change course again and confirm that she actually DOES have stage four cancer but in her appendix and lymph nodes and not her uterus or ovary. Pp
The gauntlet of emotions this woman must be dealing with is heartbreaking.
How a medical team can get something this wrong this many times on ONE patient I will never understand.
As always, try and have an advocate with you at all times. I’m unsure if it would have helped in this scenario, but we all need a second set of eyes and ears in the room.
Ask questions. Get a second opinion. Don’t be afraid to speak up if you feel you’re being mistreated. Reach out online for support from other patients and caregivers… we will help you.
https://people.com/woman-32-has-hysterectomy-doctors-apologize-no-cancer-11714951
#medicalerrors #iatrogenic #disability #trauma #hysterectomy #cancer #womenshealth #obgyn #chronicillness
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Me at ER for cardiac issues
Dr: “Could you be pregnant?”
Me: “No I had a hysterectomy”
Dr: “You look too young for that? Are you sure?”
Me: “I’m confident”
Dr: “I think you might be confused. Maybe it was your appendix.”
Proceeds to order pregnancy test
I’ve had this interaction more times than I can count
Healthcare workers think I’m “too young” to have had a hysterectomy and automatically assume I’m confusing my womb with another organ.
They ask endless questions, only to end up doing a pregnancy test anyways
Perhaps there are patients who confuse their uterus for their appendix, but I would imagine that’s exceedingly rare
The battle I went through to get my hysterectomy was long and arduous. It involved many physicians lecturing me about how I would never be able to have children
Asking insensitive questions like:
“Don’t you want to be a Mom?”
“You might want biological children, many women do”
“What happens if you meet your dream man and he leaves you for being barren?”
You don’t have to endure this type of insulting and misogynistic third degree to get your appendix or gallbladder removed.
They inform you of the surgical risks, you consent, the end.
There’s simply no plausible way to confuse the removal of a WOMB with an appendix
Despite these obvious facts, I’ve had countless doctors assume I’m wrong. That I couldn’t possibly have lost my uterus and it must have been something less important.
I’ve even had “patient CLAIMS hysterectomy”’written in my chart.
Why someone would lie about something so easy to prove or disprove is beyond me.
The end result is always a delay in care while we argue and then wait for an unnecessary pregnancy test which always comes back negative.
Surely we can do better?
I understand that doctors must have a degree of skepticism, and that the price of missing a pregnancy can be incredibly high.
I’m not opposed to them running a pregnancy test if that’s what they feel they need to do.
I am opposed to the delays and gaslighting
It was traumatic to lose my uterus at a young age. The healthcare workers who inundated me with misogynistic questions & put a hypothetical man before me and my health? They didn’t make it any easier.
I feel that trauma all over again whenever I’m questioned about pregnancy
I wish we could endeavour to either TRUST our patient, or just run the pregnancy test without all the unnecessary and (often) rude comments.
I don’t object to the test, I object to the way I’m treated leading up to the test.
Patients know their body best. We know the difference between a womb and an appendix. We know when we’re being talked down to and mistreated.
It causes trauma. Makes us less likely to trust the provider and far less likely to seek care in the future
Please treat your patients with the dignity they deserve. Don’t judge them on how they look, the chronic illness or disability they have or their gender or sexual orientation. Listen to them. Work with them. Let them be a partner in their care.
We can do better together /end
After the hysterectomy I also had a post op complication that was ignored by the ER three times. I had a life threatening internal bleed, but was sent home without tests because they thought I was “exaggerating”.We MUST listen to patients. I only survived because my accidental advocate stepped up
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/my-most-dangerous-er-experience-and
#misogyny #medicalmisogyny #womenshealth #obgyn #ableism #disability #endometriosis #hysterectomy #discrimination #mybodymychoice
