Stories Archive

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March 20, 2017

When I was 21, my mom had just passed away, and her death drove me to uncontrollable anxiety, making me paranoid I had multiple STIs. […]

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March 19, 2017

My patient was 40 years old and pregnant for the fourth time. She had three children under 10. She was new to America. She and […]

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March 18, 2017

I came from a small school with only 120 students. Though sex ed was part of our curriculum, it was often looked over and rarely […]

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March 17, 2017

We had a 16-year-old patient at one of our high school-based health centers who had been homeless, with her mom, for a year. When Gwen* […]

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March 16, 2017

My story is pretty boring. As I was starting to become sexually active, I knew how to prevent becoming pregnant and contracting STDs partly due […]

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March 15, 2017

My patient Gina is 13 years old, much more interested in tracing animals from the children’s books in my waiting room than talking to the […]

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March 14, 2017

In eighth grade, my super liberal school taught us sex ed. The class was calm and funny, and in the end we learned a lot. […]

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March 13, 2017

Kristen and Steve were expecting their first child. Kristen had had two miscarriages, so she and Steve were so excited when they made it to […]