Michele Quinn, MD, FACOG
@drquinngyn
Ob-Gyn, abortion provider, minimally-invasive gynecologic surgeon, fiercely supportive parent of a trans child 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 BLM she/her
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03-03-2020 05:53:05
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These are real stories shared by Cameron T. Whitley at today’s Stanford Medicine ADIE conference.
People whose bigotry prevents them from caring for patients don’t belong in healthcare.
Chelsea Polis (Mastodon: @[email protected]) Routine misoprostol before IUD insertions makes it more painful/worse side effects and does *not* make placement easier – reserve this only if first insertion attempts don’t work. /10
Ryan Marino, MD Had a patient recently who had to be septic before anything could be done about her non-viable fetus. Had ruptured at 15 weeks. Sepsis alone puts the patient at high risk for hemorrhage and that’s exactly what happened. Almost had to take her uterus to save her life.