Over 90% of women of childbearing age use some sort of contraception method. I quickly became aware that my male gender has allowed me to pass through medical school (and life!) totally ignorant of all of this. My patients came in using almost everything–condoms, the pill, the patch, Nuvaring, Depo–and I was left perplexed. What […]
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Here’s a look at an all-girl public elementary school in New York. I’m not a huge fan of sex-segregated schools, but watching what they do here – naming the classrooms after women of achievement, having women speakers who are doctors, lawyers, football players; promoting a girls-are-women-of-achievement atmosphere – makes for a good look at how
La Vida de Vagabundos Americanos
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Because most fights only have to last about this long.
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I’ve been spending the weekend trying to put my book projects in order (OK, Saturday was mostly pancakes, barbecue, and the like, but I was thinking real hard about it. Most of the actual working happened today, while I was still hungover from staying up too late out here). And today I reviewed, once again,
My bills are paid, my account is empty, and I have a bunch of writing stuff to clean up and put together today. Tra-la!
We’re working with a new software program here, and I’m reading through the technical how-to material that was sent to us by the software creator. There are typos, certainly, which I find even more annoying now that I do this for a living, but what stopped me in my tracks was this: “Help – Takes
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