WELLNESS
Louise Kuo
Our Medical Director Kelly Brogan’s new book, A Mind of Your Own, launches today. It’s brilliant and by all rights should be sitting atop the New York Times bestseller list this week. I’m stewing, however, because it’s been blacklisted by all major media outlets. We can still get this done on our own power, of […]...
MOTHERHOOD
Louise Kuo
Do you have a sick child? Perhaps she’s chronically ill or suffers from pain or a disability that requires tremendous courage to make it through the day. Maybe he has a condition that’s rare or incurable or mysterious, and modern medicine comes up shockingly short. What’s a mom to do? The most heroic people I […]...
PODCAST
Carla Atherton
#87 — Gentle Parenting is Fearless ** October 21, 2015 Guest // Alison Smith ** Host // Carla Atherton Modern parenting can be an exercise in extremes and contradictions. We’re afraid to let kids walk to the park by themselves but we leave them unattended for hours with the entire internet in their pockets. We enroll […]...
PODCAST
Lisa Bloomquist
#85 — Essure Dangers: Permanent Birth Control Pain ** October 7, 2015 Host // Lisa Bloomquist Essure is a kind of non-surgical sterilization that was approved by the FDA in 2002. Since then, three-quarters of a million women have signed up. We’re talking about the insertion of metal coils inside the fallopian tubes, which is supposed […]...
WELLNESS
Kelly Brogan, MD
As a physician, informed consent means I have an obligation to my patients. I must research and relay what I can about a given intervention’s risks, known and unknown, in the context of the purported benefits, and potential alternatives. The prescription of the pill, which interferes with reproductive hormones, is an example of an egregious […]...
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