6/13/2024 Getting into the guts of what's normal, what's a red flag and which beverages are the most tolerable options when prepping for a colonoscopy.
5/31/2024 We try to create processes in the office to help prevent common bottlenecks that affect access to care for our patients. The one pattern that I can’t seem to mitigate is the fear of vaginal estrogen.
1/31/2024 Women have about 400 periods in their lifetime—but the many medical routes to avoiding them and their related pain are not the risky or unnatural propositions some patients might believe them to be.
1/9/2024 I work in cervical cancer screening. My waiting room is always full. It shouldn’t be that way.
12/7/2023 As changes to how we screen for human papillomavirus are on the horizon, some awkward questions from patients may be heading your way.
11/3/2023 Keep these tools in mind when considering the complicated nature of consent.
9/28/2023 A colleague of mine was worried that the curriculum teaches about sexual orientation, because “he doesn’t believe in that.”
9/7/2023 About one in six people have genital herpes, and most of them have no idea.
8/11/2023 I sometimes joke that my children’s university tuition has been paid by midlife relationship instability because I see so many people in their forties and fifties who test HPV positive.
7/7/2023 Human beings are generally terrible at abstinence, so a harm-reduction approach is our best bet for keeping our patients safer. If you don’t ask the questions, you’ll never know who needs to hear the answers.
6/7/2023 About a year ago a colleague asked me why people have pronouns in their email signature. He thought that perhaps it was a signal that they were interested in dating and signalling the gender of their preferred partner.
5/4/2023 Patients (and some physicians) think that genital hygiene products are useful but the reality is that the industry exploits a marketing strategy designed to turn shame and insecurity about sexuality into profit.
