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Mum, 38, reveals her severe incontinence has meant she’s ruined EIGHT sofas… and she hasn’t had sex in seven years
Jun 29, 2018 | The Sun
By Jade Beecroft
A single mum of two hasn’t had sex for seven years after a vagina mesh implant left her severely incontinent and in agony. -
Women often feel patronised by doctors, health minister says
Jun 29, 2018 | The Guardian
By Haroon Siddique
Women struggle to get their needs met by doctors because the profession is “overwhelmingly male”, a health minister has suggested. -
Women feel ‘patronised’ and ‘diminished’ by doctors, Health minister says
Jun 30, 2018 | Politics Home
By Sebastian Whale
The Mental Health Minister suggested that doctors don’t understand women’s needs because the profession is “overwhelmingly male” and said there needs to be a conversation about the “asymmetric” relationship between medics and patients. -
Michelle Wolf compares Ivanka Trump to ‘vaginal mesh’, herpes in TV segment
Jul 2, 2018 | NEWS.com.au
By Gavin Fernando
If you thought Michelle Wolf would ease up on the Trumps after her recent speech controversy, you were dead wrong. -
Drugwatch to Host Screening of Netflix Documentary The Bleeding Edge
Jun 29, 2018 | Drug Watch
By Michelle Llamas
In the name of innovation, medical devices hit the market in the U.S. without proper testing. Manufacturers make billions. Americans pay with their health and their lives. And it’s all legal.
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Jun 29, 2018 | The Sun
By Jade Beecroft
A SINGLE mum of two hasn’t had sex for seven years after a vagina mesh implant left her severely incontinent and in agony.
Paula Lynn, 38, lives in constant pain and her “little accidents” make going out in public a nightmare… leaving dating out of the question.
She began suffering with bladder incontinence after her first pregnancy and was offered a TVT-O vaginal mesh implant, but the surgery left her feeling even worse.
Now she’s due to see a specialist to see if the procedure can be reversed.
“The doctors told me the implant would change my life forever,” explains Paula, from Belfast.
“They told me I’d never wet myself again. But instead it’s ruined my life.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/6655611/mum-no-sex-seven-years-severe-incontinence/
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Women often feel patronised by doctors, health minister says
Jun 29, 2018 | The Guardian
By Haroon Siddique
Women struggle to get their needs met by doctors because the profession is “overwhelmingly male”, a health minister has suggested.
Jackie Doyle-Price, the minister for mental health, said that in her experience, many women felt “patronised” and “diminished” when trying to access health treatments.
In an interview with the House magazine, she expressed concern that women often felt unable to have a proper conversation with health professionals.
“The doctor is the expert, the patient defers and basically presents themselves saying, ‘fix me’,” she said. “But actually, there needs to be a proper conversation about that.Advertisement
“There are a lot of issues about the asymmetry in that relationship, but they become particularly acute when you look at women. Quite often, the profession is still overwhelmingly male.”
She added: “There is not a single female MP who hasn’t told me at some point they felt patronised and diminished whilst trying to access health treatments.”
Doyle-Price said that if female MPs, who were “pushy, articulate, good-at-looking-after-ourselves kinds of women”, had problems, then it suggested there was a wider issue.
There are more female than male GPs in England, according to NHS Digital, which put the respective figures at 52% and 48%.
Doyle-Price said this was a positive sign, but that the legacies of a previously “very male-dominated profession” remained.
The ratio is different when it comes to hospital doctors. NHS Digital says that when excluding GPs, women make up 45% of doctors and 36% of consultants.
Doyle-Price said there was a lot of ignorance about fairly common female conditions with the potential for “seismic” impacts, such as endometriosis, fibroids and even the menopause, because women did not like talking about them.
One in 10 women has endometriosis, but it takes an average of seven to eight years to be diagnosed. The charity Endometriosis UK has suggested that women with the disorder were often overlooked by doctors unless they were trying to conceive.
Doyle-Price said the vaginal mesh scandal, in which thousands of women had to have the implants removed because of complications, was “an example of how there isn’t a proper conversation between women and health professionals about the conditions that affect them”.
Women, in particular, needed “much more informed consent” to any procedure or medication they were given, she said.
Doyle-Price said public education was needed to stop women suffering in silence.
“We need to be much more sensitive to the particular needs of women, because the reality is, our bodies are different,” she said. “We have issues that cause more and more morbidities than men would have. That’s just a fact of life.”
The prospects of the proportion of female doctors growing in the future look bright. Numbers have been rising since 2009 and 53% of people training to be doctors are female. But while the entire NHS workforce is 77% female, only 5% of them are doctors, compared with 22% of men.
They also face a gender pay bias at the highest levels. The BBC reported earlier this year that just five of the 100 highest-paid consultants in England were women, with the top-paid man earning nearly £740,000 – two-and-a-half times that of the top woman.
On average, full-time female consultants earned nearly £14,000, or 12%, less a year than males.
A study published last year found that female doctors were more empathetic than male doctors, and that this probably made them better doctors.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/29/women-often-feel-patronised-by-doctors-health-minister-says
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Women feel ‘patronised’ and ‘diminished’ by doctors, Health minister says
Jun 30, 2018 | Politics Home
By Sebastian Whale
The Mental Health Minister suggested that doctors don’t understand women’s needs because the profession is “overwhelmingly male” and said there needs to be a conversation about the “asymmetric” relationship between medics and patients.
In an interview with The House magazine, Ms Doyle-Price said women often feel uncomfortable about talking about their problems with health professionals and would instead “suffer in silence”.
And she said that women need “much more informed consent” to procedures and medications prescribed by doctors.
“The relationship between the doctor and patient is not an equal one. The doctor is the expert, the patient defers and basically present themselves saying, ‘fix me’. But actually, there needs to be a proper conversation about that,” she told The House.
“There are a lot of issues about the asymmetry in that relationship, but they become particularly acute when you look at women. Quite often, the profession is still overwhelmingly male.
“A lot of the conditions that we as women present with are quite uncomfortable to talk about and a bit embarrassing. So, again, that doesn’t make for a good conversation.”
She added: “We need to get generally, but particularly with women, a much more informed consent of anyone to any procedure or medication that they’re taking.
“We often get sent away with prescriptions, but we need to realise that none of these things we’re taking are Smarties. Every treatment we have has a consequence and we as patients need to be much better at properly assessing the risks to ourselves and having those informed conversations with practitioners.
“There is another point about women as well,” she continued. “There is not a single female MP who hasn’t told me at some point they felt patronised and diminished whilst trying to access health treatments.
“Now, we are all pushy, articulate, good-at-looking-after-ourselves kinds of women. If we’ve had that experience then clearly there’s a wider issue here. We need to do something about that.
“That’s about changing the behaviour of practitioners, but also giving women the tools to help them do the job and look after themselves.”
Ms Doyle-Price cited the vaginal mesh scandal as an example of how “there isn’t a proper conversation between women and health professionals about the conditions that affect them”.
The frontbencher also said there was a lot of “ignorance” about common conditions that women face, including incontinence, the menopause and endometriosis.
“We are part of a societal transition here, and it’s certainly true that the worst case of this would have been when it was much more male dominated. Increasingly, women can choose to be seen by a woman. So, that’s all very welcome and that will help,” she said.
“But there is still a lot of ignorance about fairly common conditions, just because we don’t like talking about them.”
She added: “There’s a public education piece there. We talk about PSHE and all the rest of it. Again, we do all this education in mixed classes, so it’s not the most comfortable to do, talk about things like periods in a mixed class.
“We’ve really got to think about giving all women the tools to be able to look after themselves and think, ‘hang on, there’s a problem here’, and not just suffer in silence because it’s all a bit embarrassing and messy.”
https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/health-and-care/health-professionals/news/96441/women-feel-%E2%80%98patronised%E2%80%99-and-%E2%80%98diminished%E2%80%99
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Michelle Wolf compares Ivanka Trump to ‘vaginal mesh’, herpes in TV segment
Jul 2, 2018 | NEWS.com.au
By Gavin Fernando
IF YOU thought Michelle Wolf would ease up on the Trumps after her recent speech controversy, you were dead wrong.
This week on Netflix’s The Break With Michelle Wolf, the American comedian — who less than two months ago came under fire for her controversial White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech — took aim at Ivanka Trump, comparing the US President’s eldest daughter to cancer and a sexually-transmitted infection, among other comments.
“If you see Ivanka on the street, first call her Tiffany,” Wolf suggested. “This will devastate her. Then, talk to her in terms she will understand. Say, ‘Ivanka, you’re like vaginal mesh. You were supposed to support women, but now you have blood all over you and you’re the centre of a thousand lawsuits.’”
She went on to compare her to a contraceptive pill called Yaz, which was recalled due to carrying a higher risk of blood clots.
“Ivanka, you’re like that birth control pill Yaz,” Wolf said. “At first it seemed like it’d be really cool and helpful, but you need to be immediately recalled.”
Then came the herpes jab: “Is your nickname herpes? Because you’re not necessarily the most dangerous person in the administration but you’re very unpleasant, totally incurable and you always show up when we’re about to get f**ked.”
In her final attack, she compared Ivanka to cancer, saying: “Remember, discourse is a path to change and Ivanka is the prettiest tumour in a swiftly moving cancer.”
Wolf is no stranger to controversy. In April, the comedian came under fire over the roast of a monologue she delivered in Washington during the 2018 White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Ms Trump came under attack in her polarising speech, with Wolf comparing her to “an empty box of tampons”.
“She was supposed to be an advocate for women, but it turns out she’s about as helpful to women as an empty box of tampons. She’s done nothing to satisfy women. So I guess, like father like daughter.”
The audience could be heard mumbling uncomfortably, to which she added: “Oh, you don’t think he’s good in bed. Come on!
“She does clean up nice, though. Ivanka cleans up nice. She’s the diaper genie of the administration. On the outside she looks sleek, but the inside, it’s still full of s**t.”
The speech was widely condemned, particularly for her swift criticism of Press Secretary Sarah Huckerbee Sanders, who Wolf likened to Aunt Lydia from The Handmaid’s Tale — a character who indoctrinates women with the beliefs of the new society and forces them to accept their fates.
“And of course we have Sarah Huckabee Sanders. We are graced with her presence. I love you as Aunt Lydia in The Handmaid’s Tale — Mike Pence if you haven’t seen it you’d love it,” Wolf said.
“Every time Sarah steps up to the podium I get excited because I’m not sure what we’re going to get, a press briefing, a bunch of lies or divided into softball teams. It’s shirts and skin and this time don’t be such a little b**ch Jim Acosta.
“I really, really like Sarah. I think she’s very resourceful. Like, she burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Like, maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies.”
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/media/michelle-wolf-compares-ivanka-trump-to-vaginal-mesh-herpes-in-tv-segment/news-story/e5980a6334570382e3b83d05f8faa7a8
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Drugwatch to Host Screening of Netflix Documentary The Bleeding Edge
Jun 29, 2018 | Drug Watch
By Michelle Llamas
In the name of innovation, medical devices hit the market in the U.S. without proper testing. Manufacturers make billions. Americans pay with their health and their lives. And it’s all legal.
These are the facts exposed in the Netflix original documentary The Bleeding Edge. The film by Academy Award-nominated filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering exposes the dark side of the medical-device industry.
Dick and Ziering (The Invisible War, The Hunting Ground) skillfully weave hard-hitting research with stories of people whose lives were ruined by FDA-cleared medical devices. Devices include Essure birth control, pelvic mesh, the DaVinci surgical robot and metal hip implants.
Drugwatch, an Orlando-based consumer education and patient advocacy organization, is hosting a free screening of The Bleeding Edge for the public at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday (July 10) in the Community Room at the Winter Park Public Library.
The Netflix release is July 27.
Drugwatch’s advance screening will conclude with a short discussion. Women’s healthexpert Dr. Christopher Walker and attorney Holly Ennis of Ennis & Ennis P.A. will answer audience questions.
Drugwatch, funded by Wilson and Peterson, LLP, is hosting this event to educate the public.
Ennis, an Essure expert, is not affiliated with Wilson and Peterson, LLP.
Drugwatch hopes to spread awareness and share the stories of people injured by the negligence of drug and medical device companies.
“I talk to too many patients seriously harmed by medical devices. We hope this film helps spread awareness that the FDA should do more to keep the public safe. Medical device companies should not put profits above patients,” said Drugwatch Senior Writer Michelle Llamas. “Every consumer should watch this film.”
https://www.drugwatch.com/news/2018/06/29/drugwatch-to-host-screening-of-netflix-documentary-the-bleeding-edge/
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