Word: pills
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...facts," however, don't seem to be all that objective from the student point of view. Most women interviewed last week who have used UHS birth control facilities, said they detected a preference, conscious or otherwise on the part of UHS doctors to prescribe the pill over all other methods--especially if couples are living together. Students who staff Room 13, Harvard's most informal dispensory of birth control information, contend that getting the "facts" all depends on which of the 15 internists a student happens to see. They say that the methods favored vary with each doctor...
...internists themselves maintain that they present a standard and balanced repertoire and don't push any particular methods. Wacker, for instance, sizes up the pill to prospective users by first admitting that it has side-effects, but they are all fairly well-known. Since the estrogen levels of the pill have been reduced, "you don't find any increasing toxity," Wacker says, adding that the pill has now been used safely for the past 15 to 16 years. Bisbee advises: "What we say is that there is no connection between the pill and cancer." As for the diaphragm, Harvard...
Regardless of the pitch, the doctors who do most of the prescribing are positive that within the past few years, women are leaving the pill in increasing numbers for the diaphragm. Dr. Pengwynne Blevins, who perhaps sees more students about birth control than any other internist, says she can't give a percentage, but she thinks people are "turning away from the pill. Women are changing their views. The diaphragm is gaining acceptance," she says. Louis C. Brown, another internist, concurs, saying "there is an increasing move away from the pill" to the diaphragm and other methods...
...true that a lot of people are switching away from the pill to the diaphragm," Wacker says. However, he adds, because of UHS's decentralized structure there is no sure way of telling how many women are making the change. He says he often sees a pattern where women arrive at Harvard on the pill and then switch to the diaphragm after a few years here, Blevins says that lately she has been fitting a number of women for the diaphragm before they have ever tried the pill...
...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...