Who got space for one or two parient during the holiday we need full intake exam check evrything off before being treated for supposed trauma for the vacation neck brace frequent code and diagnostic exam and procedure to do on us most probably high level of care if not full life support in icu and how know maybe we will find out that we are pregnant whit the blood test or more pregnant then we though like almost to term maybe only sky is me and sab limit for the 27 to the 2. We are curently 23 and 22 both female. If any medical team have question orwish us to fill paper work a head contact us in dm

good news for Romani women in the UK!

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The network can support Gypsy Roma and Traveller Women to

- Get help registering with a GP

- Get help to arrange a GP appointment

- Access to Midwives 

- Advise on getting the right support

"This is a community led group" Dee, told Travellers Times "I think eventually it will be a positive move forward in terms of women’s health - but along the way we will be able to help men’s health and children too. For now, it’s all about building trust and getting those much-needed appointments and conversations going” at our first meeting in October- one woman left saying she “felt heard” after sharing her lived experience. Others had appointments booked for them that were long overdue."

In the UK, Romani women are more vulnerable to stillbirths and miscarriages, have higher maternal death rates during pregnancy and after childbirth, and are 20x more likely to experience the death of their newborn child. Reasons for that are a lack of access to proper maternal care, a lack of awareness and education about maternal care, as well as poverty and poor environmental conditions. As of 2021-2022, the Romani life expectancy in the UK was of 50 years old for both men and women (x), about 30 years shorter than that of the general British population (x).

WASHINGTON (AP) — One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to check her in. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound. The baby later died.

Complaints that pregnant women were turned away from U.S. emergency rooms spiked in 2022 after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, federal documents obtained by The Associated Press reveal.

The cases raise alarms about the state of emergency pregnancy care in the U.S., especially in states that enacted strict abortion laws and sparked confusion around the treatment doctors can provide.

“It is shocking, it’s absolutely shocking,” said Amelia Huntsberger, an OB/GYN in Oregon. “It is appalling that someone would show up to an emergency room and not receive care -- this is inconceivable.”

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More at the link.

Highlights of the internship - Week 18:

• The last two days of paediatrics — FINALLY. And the start of internal medicine.

• When I said goodbye to the small surgical procedures room’s staff, they were like, “oh nooo. But we were so used to seeing you. We can gather signatures for you to keep you here ahaha.” 🥹🥹

• Going to miss only ob/gyn part of this hospital.

• At general medicine, I started in endocrinology clinic. We were supposed to get there 30 minutes earlier than the doctor and start admitting the patients, taking their history and getting them ready for the doctor. When she comes, we start admitting them together. This will be the sum of my two weeks here.

• I had the night shift of the first day. I don’t like the first day night shifts!! Nothing requiring an intern really happened so it was calm, at least.

• I got a text from my friend about our gynaecologic oncology attending. He told the nurses she and I are his favourites and firsts, the ob/gyn doctors of the future 🥹🥹🥹 stoppp 🥹🥹🥹

Fuck the ob/gyn of one of my friend who want to rush her to a dangerous operation to have her lose weight when she could do it with the help of a nutritionist. My friend want a kid and her ob/gyn doesn't want to help her if she doesn't undergo the operation.

Medical fatphobia needs to be stopped.

TRYING TO TELL ADMIN WE’RE UNDERSTAFFED AND IT’S CREATING AN UNSAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR PATIENTS

Why sometimes it is important to have FEMALE gynaecologists

When we talk about wanting female gynaecologists or obstetricians, we often talk about hypothetic things, so I thought I'd share my real, recent experience. I'm a grown up adult and yet I'd never gone to the gynaecologist before until recently. It all started last year, when my periods got odd. I won't go into details, but you know when your instinct urges you to get checked because you know in your gut that something is off? And you know it sounds insane if you say it out loud, and people don't believe you, but you know. So I contacted a GP, managed to convince him to take me seriously, and I got a referral for a gynaecologist. A year later, I was finally called for my appointment.

When I got my paper with my appointment, I was surprised to learn that the examination I was booked for was far more and more invasive / intense than I had thought it would be, so I got very anxious, because I've heard from friends who had terrible experiences at the gyn and I was worried sick. Will it hurt? Will they be too harsh? Will I bleed? Will I be really uncomfortable? Then I had worse concerns: will I have a dishonourable doctor/nurse who takes advantage of me? So I decided the best way to ease my concerns was to ensure that no males were in the room. A woman wouldn't rape me, a woman wouldn't touch me without knowledge of what it feels like, a woman would be able to be empathetic with me, put herself in my shoes, and try and help me. A woman wouldn't get turned on. A woman will also have had, at some point, her first intense examination and will understand my worries and anxiety. Men? They'll lack empathy, they'll be too brusque, they might sexually abuse me, they might hurt me simply because they don't know how delicate you need to be, or mansplain, or discard my concerns, or all of the above.

It was important for my doctor to be a woman.

Unfortunately, we live in the day and age where if you call your doctor, hospital or surgery in the NHS to try and ensure your doctor is a woman, sometimes you'll be met with the wrong person who will think you're transphobic and be really rude and disrespectful and refuse to help. It took me 2 days on the phone, calling a variety of hospitals, hospital departments and NHS numbers, until I was able to find a sweet lady who was happy to ensure my doctor was female and to my surprise, she didn't even ask me to explain why it was important to me.

In the end, my appointment went just fine. I had a young, understanding, caring, gentle and lovely female doctor who was also POC, so she actually gave me a lot of insight. I arrived saying "I'm so sorry but I've never done this before and i'm so anxious" and the whole time she was listening to me, comforting me, calming me, explaining me exactly what she was doing bit by bit, being patient, empathetic... She actually told me I'd done well coming and gotten checked and explained how important it was, even if it didn't seem like a big deal or even if I wasn't sexually active at the time. Unfortunately I was right and the doctor found evidence of a more serious health problem, so I'll be getting more tests and things, but I was so happy with the doctor I got. When she told me what I might have, which is something that runs in my family, I told her I didn't know anything about that problem, so she sat and patiently and kindly told me all she knew about it, explained it's a problem many women live with and that in ethnicities such as hers or mine, it could be even more common, but she gave me the magical line "us women have had to deal with things like this since always and we always pull through, so don't worry, there's a lot we can do" and I left not feeling worried at all, rather, empowered, calmer and confident.

So don't fucking undermine the importance of being able to choose exactly the doctor you want.

im sorry but imagine looking into someone's vagina and seeing this

Doctors Kurt and Sarah Bjorkman, a board certified pediatrician and OB/GYN, use this week's episode to share their 10 favorite first foods that they used when starting out doing baby-led weaning with their own baby. They also share 13 foods that are important to avoid or use with caution when starting out as well as some key safety tips to keep in mind along the way!

This is part 3 of a 3 part series on starting solids so be sure to check out:

Part 1 -- "When to Start Solids": https://youtu.be/tOiXWDG44wU

Part 2 -- "Baby-Led Weaning - the Benefits, Risks, and Getting Started": https://youtu.be/N8gLcrPEhB4

Affiliate links to all products mentioned in video here: https://www.amazon.com/shop/thedoctor... -- click on Baby-Led Weaning list!

Video about performing CPR for choking baby: https://youtu.be/gHZdBY-CkGw

0:00 - Intro

1:02 - Getting Started

1:35 - 10 Favorite First Foods

8:30 - 13 Foods to Avoid or Use with Caution

13:36 - Special Precautions for Safety

16:05 - Other Key Tips When Starting Out

Intro Music: A WAY FOR ME - Nicolai Heidlas by Chem Ocampo

Keywords: pregnancy update, the doctors bjorkman, pregnancy vlog, obgyn, pediatrician, new baby, baby basics, breastfeeding, bottle feeding, exclusively breastfed baby, breast pumping, newborn, new mom, new dad, how much to feed baby, starting solids, baby-led weaning, baby-led introduction to solids, baby food, baby purees, first foods, BLW, allergies, choking

Huge shout-out to the pro-life "protest" currently taking place outside my hospital that consists of exactly two (2) men with a handful of homemade signs that are completely illegible from a distance of greater than 1 meter. I know it might SEEM like you're completely wasting your time, but...

You know what, I'm just gonna end that sentence right there.

Highlights of the internship - Week 22 / Congress Edition:

• None of the hospital related events matter next to what I have lived during and for the congress of my university ahaha. I was going to make my first oral presentation this weekend and I have been preparing for it during all week.

• To say I was excited was to say the least.

• Almost every attending around us, even the dean, were saying that they were curious about our presentations and wanted to come and listen. I didn’t know I could get even more nervous?

• Especially on the presentation day, I could pass out hahah. Thankfully, I didn’t because there was a technical problem with the video I was going to show and dealing with it somehow calmed me down. My gynaecological oncology attending saved the video and me in the end though <3

• He did his oral presentation first and me and my friends looked at each other like, “after this amazing, magnificent, spectacular presentation; ours will look like sh*t” lol.

• But the liked it :’) so much :’) they but especially our gynaecological oncology attending praised us so much that I might have melted at the stage :’) he said we are like a resident in his eyes, not an intern :’) I also might not have stopped myself and thank to him and praise him while the dean was there too :’)

• So, as the future OB/GYN or gynaecological oncology doctors, me and my friend have finished this weekend in success 🥺

CW: Rape.

WHEN THE HOSPITAL SERVER CRASHES AND WE HAVE A WEEK OF PAPER CHARTING

"So, how are you enjoying OB/Gyn?"

"..."

"Hard to say?"

"No, I'm just trying to think of an answer that doesn't use the word 'slimy.'"

Doctors Kurt and Sarah Bjorkman, a board certified pediatrician and OB/GYN, use this week's episode to share their journey with baby-led weaning their own baby in addition to some of the medical evidence about potential benefits and risks of BLW. At the end of this episode they also start to dive into some key considerations when getting started with the process yourself.

This is part 2 of a 3 part series on starting solids so be sure to check out:

Part 1 -- "When to Start Solids": https://youtu.be/tOiXWDG44wU

Part 3 -- "Baby's First Foods and Foods to Avoid": https://youtu.be/KGvorfE_iDA

Affiliate links to all products mentioned in video here: https://www.amazon.com/shop/thedoctor...

0:00 - Intro

1:37 - What is Baby-Led Weaning?

2:58 - Benefits of Baby-Led Weaning

5:41 - Potential Risks

7:21 - Getting Started

9:11 - Basic Safety Tips

10:20 - Meal Time!

11:11 - Allergens

12:40 - What to Feed Baby

Intro Music: A WAY FOR ME - Nicolai Heidlas by Chem Ocampo

Keywords: pregnancy update, the doctors bjorkman, pregnancy vlog, obgyn, pediatrician, new baby, baby basics, breastfeeding, bottle feeding, exclusively breastfed baby, breast pumping, newborn, new mom, new dad, how much to feed baby, starting solids, baby-led weaning, baby-led introduction to solids, baby food, baby purees, first foods