In SELF, Dr. Michelle Nichols commented on the announcement that Our Bodies, Ourselves will no longer be publishing new editions of its classic book on sexual and reproductive health.
While professionalism and appropriateness are very much a part of medicine, so is laughter. Just today, I met a patient who I’ll call Meera. Meera […]
I recently met with a patient who shared her story with me. Leslie (name changed) was referred to the Adolescent Medicine Nurse Practitioner by one […]
In the late 1990s/early 2000s, I was among the cohort of kids exposed to abstinence-only-based education. In my middle-class DC suburb, the prominent focus was […]
In my ob/gyn residency, we had “continuity clinics”—a weekly clinic where we could see the same patients over and over so that they could have […]
I am an international boarding student. It is hard because I am used to always having my family right beside me when I have a […]
My first reproductive education experience was when I was in ninth grade, when I had a health class. The school divided the boys and girls […]
I believe that sex education in all schools is a very important aspect of understanding your own body and can help guide you in making […]