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The Life of a Miscarriage →

Last week a woman told me that she had a miscarriage in her bathroom. She was terrified. She didn’t know what to do. So she flushed it down the toilet.

A miscarriage is the spontaneous expulsion of a fetus from the womb before it is able to survive on its own.

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The Ideal Medical Care Movement Sweeps America →

More and more doctors are leaving jobs they hate and opening ideal clinics.

It’s a national trend.

Now there are hundreds of ideal clinics nationwide. Find one near you on this map. Meet some of the most innovative doctors in the country in these news stories.

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Interview with Dr. Pamela Wible: Pioneer of Community-Designed Health Care →

Dr Pamela Wible has been described as medicine’s Martin Luther King. Born into a family of physicians, her parents warned her not to pursue medicine. She followed her heart only to discover that to heal her patients she had to first heal her profession. So she led a series of town hall meetings inviting citizens to design the clinic of their dreams.

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Physician, First Do No Harm—To Yourself →

A psychiatrist in Seattle had picked out the bridge. At 3 a.m. he would swerve across his lane and plunge into the water. Everyone would assume he fell asleep.

A surgeon in Oregon was lying on the floor of her office with a scalpel. Nobody would find her until it was too late.

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Why Health Care Lacks Love →

I am a woman doctor, but I inherited a patriarchal medical model. A patriarchal medical model rewards male values.

MALE VALUES:

  • Speed
  • Volume
  • Bigness 
  • Toughness
  • Graphs
  • Charts
  • Algorithms
  • Proof
  • Strength
  • Fighting
  • War metaphors

But I am a woman doctor.

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