Tag Archives: Physician-Patient Relations

Alan Scott: Letter to the Editor

Pediatrics. September 1, 2007 120(3) pp. 695 -696 Letter to the Editor C. Alan Scott MD EXTRACT To the Editor.— I fear that Dickerman may have lost sight of our responsibility as physicians: primum non nocere.1 His recent commentary2 advocating a change in the American Academy of Pediatrics policy on circumcision is ill-founded. His view that a declineContinue reading “Alan Scott: Letter to the Editor”

AAP: Female Genital Mutilation

Pediatrics. 1998; 102:1 153-156 Female Genital Mutilation AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS. Committee on Bioethics ABSTRACT The traditional custom of ritual cutting and alteration of the genitalia of female infants, girls, and adolescents, referred to as female genitalmutilation (FGM), persists primarily in Africa and among certain communities in the Middle East and Asia. Immigrants in the United States from areas where FGM is endemic may have daughtersContinue reading “AAP: Female Genital Mutilation”

Giving refuge: reflections on working with asylum seekers.

J Pain Symptom Manage. 2010 Jul;40(1):149-54. Giving refuge: reflections on working with asylum seekers. Roth K. Department of Medicine, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC 20037, USA. kroth@mfa.gwu.edu EXTRACT Ten years ago, a psychiatrist colleague asked me to see Annie, a young Cameroonian woman who was seeking asylum in the United States, becauseContinue reading “Giving refuge: reflections on working with asylum seekers.”

Violence against women: the physician’s role

European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology. 1998 Oct;80(2):239-245 Violence against women: the physician’s role Schmuel E, Schenker JG ABSTRACT Violence against women is one reflection of the unequal power relationship between men and women in societies. Reflections of this inequality include marriage at a very young age, lack of information or choice aboutContinue reading “Violence against women: the physician’s role”

Kelly E: Female genital mutilation

Current Opinion in Obstetrics & Gynecology. 2005 Oct; (17)5:490-494 Female genital mutilation Kelly, Elizabeth; Hillard, Paula J Adams ABSTRACT Purpose of review: The purpose of this review is to aid the healthcare practitioner in caring for children, girls, and women who have undergone female genital mutilation or who are at risk for female genital mutilation. RecentContinue reading “Kelly E: Female genital mutilation”

Somali immigrant women’s perceptions of cesarean delivery and patient-provider communication surrounding female circumcision and childbirth in the USA.

Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2011 Dec;115(3):227-30. Epub 2011 Sep 19. Somali immigrant women’s perceptions of cesarean delivery and patient-provider communication surrounding female circumcision and childbirth in the USA. Ameresekere M, Borg R, Frederick J, Vragovic O, Saia K, Raj A. Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. maithri@post.harvard.edu OBJECTIVE: To explore perceptions of cesareanContinue reading “Somali immigrant women’s perceptions of cesarean delivery and patient-provider communication surrounding female circumcision and childbirth in the USA.”

[Female genital mutilation–need for answers at the age of adolescence]

Rev Med Suisse. 2008 Jun 11;4(161):1445-6,1448-50. [Female genital mutilation–need for answers at the age of adolescence]. [Article in French] Renteria SC. Département de gynécologie-obstétrique, c/o UMSA, CHUV, Lausanne. Saira-Christine.Renteria@chuv.ch ABSTRACT In Switzerland, the estimated number of survivors after traditional female genital mutilation in the country of origin or girls and adult women at risk isContinue reading “[Female genital mutilation–need for answers at the age of adolescence]”

[Female genital mutilation meets Swedish health care. Female genital mutilation is one of many forms of discrimination of women in the world]

Lakartidningen. 2001 May 16;98(20):2470-3. [Female genital mutilation meets Swedish health care. Female genital mutilation is one of many forms of discrimination of women in the world]. [Article in Swedish] Andersson C. Värnamo sjukhus. millibus@hotmail.com About 27,000 women from countries in which female genital mutilation (FGM) is a common practice are presently living in Sweden. ThisContinue reading “[Female genital mutilation meets Swedish health care. Female genital mutilation is one of many forms of discrimination of women in the world]”