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...these younger doctors know how to do abortions, even if they don't like to? Standard medical procedures are taught in medical school, and then skills are put into practice during a residency period at a hospital. Even if a doctor chooses to specialize in brain surgery, he or she should have learned about abortion techniques in medical school...
However, states the article, in some schools abortion is taught only as an elective. At others, it is not even taught. Medical school students are often not required to learn how to do abortions, and must take on an additional workload if they want to learn. Your neighborhood practitioner, who should have a knowledge of most basic surgical procedures, could easily not know how to do an abortion...
...Whatever kind of relationships children have already established with their family," observes Linda Jones, who has taught nursery and elementary school in New York City for 23 years, "they'll try to re-create with their peers." Kids are drawn to children who are "helpful, kind, sharing, giving, cooperative and responsive to distress," says Marano. Ruthellen Josselson, co-author of Best Friends, an in-depth examination of girls' and women's friendships, advises, "If parents themselves have friends in a visible way so that it seems like a normal, important part of life to their children, that's a positive...
Businesswoman Dorothy Pitman Hughes brought a spirit of financial independence when she moved to New York City from a home she shared with 10 siblings in Lumpkin, Ga., 30 years ago. By starting her own office-supplies business, Hughes taught her three daughters the principle of entrepreneurship she had found indispensable growing up black in a segregated community. "We ran our own stores, our own schools," Hughes says. "I wanted my daughters to understand that self-sufficiency...
...rapidly spreading, the medical profession is gradually and sometimes grudgingly learning the benefits and pitfalls of nutritional supplements. More than 50% of U.S. medical schools now offer courses in unconventional medicine such as homeopathy (a system that uses highly diluted remedies) and acupuncture. Says Dr. Woodson Merrell, who has taught nutrition and herbal medicine to practicing physicians at Columbia University: "The point is that this is not alternative but complementary medicine...