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Bisbee explains the switch by saying, "Some women don't want to put chemicals in their bodies. They would rather trade a small chance of getting pregnant for no chance of illness" in later life. Dr. Paul Winig '62, a gynecologist in the UHS, who treats students, faculty and other University employees, hazards that only a little more than 50 per cent of the women he sees are still using the pill...
...most at odds with the UHS birth control policy, ironically, just where the UHS doctors seem to differ strongest among themselves--over the use and effectiveness of the interuterine device. IUDs are the exclusive province of the fourth floor--where the University's two male gynecologists/obstetricians work. Only the gynecologists put in IUDs because, as gynecologist Winig says: "Putting in an IUD is a skilled procedure. If you don't know how, it is impossible. It's not that hard to push an IUD through somebody's uterus...
Casual Use. Most fertility experts insist that the drugs are indeed safe -if they are used with care and discretion. Unfortunately, says Manhattan Gynecologist Edward Stim, who rarely prescribes the drugs, they are sometimes given on a casual, "Why not give it a try?" basis. Clomid, a synthetic hormone-like drug, seems to work by stimulating the pituitary gland to release hormones that help to ripen the ovum. Pergonal, a hormonal extract from the urine of postmenopausal women, primes the ovaries so that another hormone -human chorionic gonadotropin or HCG-can ensure the release of the ovum. Neither treatment should...
...both interests and has always pursued them simultaneously. "When I was little I always wanted to be a vet," she says, and that desire, at some point, changed into a desire to be a doctor. She thinks now that she'd like to be a general practitioner or a gynecologist and obstetrician...
...Somers H. Sturgis, an obstetrician and gynecologist at UHS, and Dr. Carol Nadelson, assistant professor of Psychiatry and an affiliate of Boston's Beth Isreal Hospital, were two of three physicians Baird's lawyers called to testify...