How doctors fail women who don't want children December 02, 2017 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,434 |
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But when it comes to women who make an informed decision to ask for sterilization, everything from age, marital status and previous number of pregnancies to a hospital’s religious affiliation or a doctor’s personal beliefs can be used as a reason to deny care. The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists makes these biases explicit in 2007: The procedure “may have important effects on individuals other than the patient,” such as the patient’s husband or partner (whose approval some doctors require). The unusual requirements some doctors impose — waiting periods, age restrictions and psychological evaluations — are similar to those that legislators opposed to abortion have enacted for women seeking to terminate their pregnancies.
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Dr. Julie Chor, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Chicago, has written about structural and institutional barriers to sterilization. She told me that physicians may have “their own personal set of rules as to who it is or is not appropriate to perform a sterilization on.” She also noted that the possibility of regret, in addition to whether or not a patient is a good candidate for surgery and is well informed about nonpermanent long-term contraceptive options, is also a large part of a doctor’s decision whether or not to sterilize a woman.
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Re: How doctors fail women who don't want children December 02, 2017 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,434 |
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StudioFiftyFour
Are some doctors reluctant to perform such services due to fear of future lawsuits?
And by that I mean, a patient coming back at a later date, claiming she changed her mind and the the physician did not properly disclose the very permanent nature of the procedure?
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MerlynHerne
If anything angers me, it is all the years that WhiteWolf has had to wait before finally being able to get her surgery. and all because some dizzy moos and wannabe moos couldn't decide if they wanted children or not!
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starlady
20+ years ago I had a great gyno too. I was 40 and had bad periods. Actually she was a fertility specialist !! Anyhow, I straight out asked for a hysterectomy. Said dh and I had been married 18 years (at the time) and did not want kids. She said she understood and knew I wanted to be free of the pain and mess and scheduled the surgery as soon as she could (only waited 3 weeks after I initially asked) She did do a few tests and a biopsy first which rulled out any underlying issue. Best decision I ever made. Later, after talking with a few people, I realized just how lucky I was that she was so understanding about it.
I had actually been to another gyno before her and I asked for a hyst.. and he offered 2 other things and flat out refused to do they hyst unless my life was at stake. My uterus was so swollen from infection that when he was examining me he asked "are you sure you never had a baybee?"
Oh crap! I could not get my pants up and my butt out of that office fast enough.
Glad I am 60+ now and post menopausal. Would never want to be of child baring age again and be faced with all that crap.
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MerlynHerne
WhiteWolf had to wait until her mid-thirties to get a hysterectomy. She had really bad fibroids, heavy bleeding, and painful ovarian cysts. Still, all the doctors said "no". Why? Because baybee, naturally. After surgery, there were women who came to regret their decision and sued their doctors when they realized that they could not have children. One idiot told her doctor that she didn't know that having a hysterectomy meant no more children WTF??!! I guess she must have missed that lesson back in high school. What did she *think* happened if she had no uterus? Where would she carry the developing infant? What a maroon!
Anyhow, three or years later, she got a new Gynecologist and again, she asked for a hysterectomy. She was very pleasantly surprised when her new doctor said "Yes" almost immediately. WhiteWolf checked into the hospital, had her surgery, stayed over night, and then sent home the next morning.
If anything angers me, it is all the years that WhiteWolf has had to wait before finally being able to get her surgery. and all because some dizzy moos and wannabe moos couldn't decide if they wanted children or not!
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