As we tighten our belts at home and abroad, we are all accountable for the burden of national debt we pass along to future generations. Local and international relief efforts for the poor are also feeling the pinch, which makes the search for ways to heal our broken economy a humanitarian effort. Although medical profits… Read More…
hysterectomy
NAME THAT DOCTOR AND HOSPITAL
NAME THAT DOCTOR AND HOSPITAL I am Nora W. Coffey, president of the Hysterectomy Educational Resources and Services (HERS) Foundation. When I was thirty-six years old, I was hysterectomized and castrated by Robert Giuntoli, at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, and his assistant Douglas Rabin. I was not informed… Read More…
The Hysterectomy Marketplace – Research and Development
OBGYN.net – a hysterectomy survey titled…“Considering a Hysterectomy?” The title is so casual it could be called… “Considering a Dessert?” At first glimpse this appears to be a legitimate survey about the effects of hysterectomy. But it quickly reveals itself to be a device to obtain information for gynecologists and the medical industry to learn… Read More…
Seeing The Uterus and Ovaries is Believing.
If the female sex organs were visible like the male sex organs, would they still be removed from 622,000 women each year? Myth: “Only men have gonads.” Fact: A woman’s gonads are her ovaries. Removal of the ovaries is castration, and the aftereffects are to women what the aftereffects of removal of the testicles are… Read More…
The ovary option
There has been a media blitz surrounding recent discussion of the pros and cons of surgical removal of the ovaries during hysterectomy (see Cochrane article below). But the most important issue has yet to be addressed: the uterus should rarely be removed in the first place. The article below perpetuates a dangerous myth through the… Read More…
Hysterectomy and Female Castration: the Enablers Part III
Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia This is the third part in a series of Posts to highlight omissions of fact and misinformation about hysterectomy currently being provided to women on hospital, doctor, and medical school websites. In Part I of this series we investigated some of the errors, omissions, and contradictions on the University of… Read More…