Story No. 59: Physician from Ohio
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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* […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
As the daughter and mother of men with Von Willebrand’s Disease, I am a symptomatic, female carrier. I was not diagnosed during my father’s lifetime, […]