Word: clinicism
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...landscape of abortion in America really change forever last week? Come take a tour. Dr. Stephen Grillot practices family medicine in Colby, Kans. In his town, a woman looking to end a pregnancy would need to drive 300 miles to Wichita to find the nearest abortion clinic. That's if she had the time and means to get away and was willing to pass the protesters to enter a building that has been bombed out and fired upon...
...others still found that many doctors simply don't want to get involved in a battle that has left the country divided and some of their colleagues dead. They have heard of the doctors and nurses who, when they arrive for work at a clinic, confront protesters who refer to their children by name. "Many doctors feel if someone else provides it, why bother? Somebody else will do it," observes Dr. Lisa Tucker, who works at the Florida clinic where Dr. David Gunn was murdered seven years ago. Experts liken this debate to the one over physician-assisted suicide...
There are already cautionary tales arising from the early clinical trials. A family doctor in a rural, conservative town in the Northeast had a pregnant 18-year-old patient who wanted an abortion. He did not do surgical abortions, but he did offer her a medical alternative, using not mifepristone but the cancer drug methotrexate, which was also being tested in trials as an abortion inducer. The doctor, knowing that his nurses opposed abortion, administered the drug himself. That was in January 1998, and by Easter, the nursing staff had heard what happened and a nurse resigned. The local church...
...their birth gender probably have larger problems. "There's a lot of pain in many of these families, and part of the way the child has dealt with the pain is to have this fantasy solution," says Ken Zucker, a psychologist who runs the Child and Adolescent Gender Identity Clinic in Toronto. Zucker also encourages children and parents to recognize that boys and girls don't have to maintain rigid gender roles to remain boys and girls. Zucker says that widening his young patients' conception of gender may save them the difficulty of pursuing sex-reassignment surgery later in life...
...these eight tales, frisky and wryly sympathetic Bloom, a Connecticut psychotherapist, introduces a heterodox band of characters that includes a girl awaiting transsexual surgery at a "gender reassignment" clinic. Bloom's specialty is flipping a taboo on its head. "I didn't want to shock God," says a woman who has made love in a synagogue. "What would have shocked God? Two more naked people, trying to wrestle time to a halt?" Maybe three...