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...thought. Last year, his third at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Palmeri, 28, began investigating what he calls the "litigious juggernaut" of ob-gyn and decided the risks of the specialty were greater than its rewards. He's not alone. More than 10% of respondents to an informal poll on the American Medical Student Association website say they have switched their intended specialty because of the rising cost of malpractice insurance. An additional 36% are considering a change for the same reason. In the first round of the process that matches medical-school graduates to most...
...that almost every story defines the characters in terms of gender: Jeannie gets sexually harassed, Lynne is accused of infatuation with a male client, Sarah blurts out an anti-lesbian slur. Lest you miss the X chromosomity of it all, Jeannie even sues on behalf of a woman whose ob-gyn passes out face first into her during an exam...
SCHEDULED BIRTHS Reports from ob-gyns show more moms-to-be are requesting scheduled C-section deliveries, even when there is no pressing medical need for the surgery. Cesarean rates in the U.S. have been climbing steadily, from 20.7% in 1996 to 22.9% in 2000, according to data from the CDC. For busy pregnant women, a scheduled birth can relieve anxiety, and grandparents can plan to be at the birth to provide support and extra hands for diaper duty...
Some MSFC activists are motivated by their own experiences with abortion. But many join for reasons more educational than political, and plenty are themselves queasy about the procedure. Kerri Faughnan, a medical student at the University of Colorado, split her time in an ob-gyn elective between an in-vitro and an abortion clinic. Swinging between women desperately in love with their eight-week-old fetuses to others desperate to be rid of theirs left her discomfited by abortion. But she echoes others in arguing that with studies estimating that 43% of women will have an abortion by the time...
...many med students say they deserve a chance to discover their limits--Do they have the nerve to terminate a first-trimester pregnancy? A second-trimester?--before choosing to specialize in ob-gyn. Faughnan decided she could perform only first-trimester abortions. "People need to come to decisions on their own," says Elizabeth Dodge, a student at the University of Texas-Southwestern. "Before, the choice was effectively taken away because we were given no information...