#medlibs Chat Tonight on Staff Training and Professional Development
I’m moderating the weekly #medlibs chat tonight on Twitter. Our topic this week is staff training and professional development.
I’ve posted some potential questions for discussion here. I’ll use these as prompts as needed, but discussion will be informal and participants can feel free to raise other related issues on the theme.
See you at 8:00 pm Central time, tag your posts #medlibs.
Filed under: Uncategorized (Source: Women's Health News)
Source: Women's Health News - July 18, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Uncategorized chat medical librarians medlibs professional development staff training Source Type: blogs
Ohio Urgently Needs Your Support, Too!
Ohio pro-choice forces urgently need support.
From Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio:
TOMORROW IN OHIO – The last votes that your lawmakers will cast on the state budget before it is sent to Gov. Kasich. It includes defunding. It includes transfer agreement bans that could close many abortion providers in Ohio. It includes the forced ultrasound amendment they added yesterday. Stand with Ohio women!
From a Facebook event page:
Inspired by Texan Women, please wear RED for Ohio and join us to show Ohio’s Legislature & Governor Kasich that we Stand With Ohio Women beginning at 10 AM Thursday with a Press ...
Source: Women's Health News - June 27, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rachel Tags: Access, Rights, & Choice Ethics Events & Observances Government Abortion Ohio standwohwomen ultrasound Source Type: blogs
Ohio Urgently Needs Your Support, Too!
Ohio pro-choice forces urgently need support.
From Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio:
TOMORROW IN OHIO – The last votes that your lawmakers will cast on the state budget before it is sent to Gov. Kasich. It includes defunding. It includes transfer agreement bans that could close many abortion providers in Ohio. It includes the forced ultrasound amendment they added yesterday. Stand with Ohio women!
From a Facebook event page:
Inspired by Texan Women, please wear RED for Ohio and join us to show Ohio’s Legislature & Governor Kasich that we Stand With Ohio Women beginning at 10 AM Thursday with a Press ...
Source: Women's Health News - June 27, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Access, Rights, & Choice Ethics Events & Observances Government Abortion Ohio standwohwomen ultrasound Source Type: blogs
Thank You Wendy Davis, Leticia Van De Putte, and Everyone Who Turned Out in Texas
There are no words but “thank you.” Your stamina and commitment are admirable and inspiring. Whatever we can do to help prepare for July 1, let’s do it.
Pretend all this cheering is my message to you:
Love, from Nashville. Filed under: Access, Rights, & Choice, Events & Observances, Government (Source: Women's Health News)
Source: Women's Health News - June 27, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rachel Tags: Access, Rights, & Choice Events & Observances Government Abortion leticia van de putte sb5 standwithwendy Texas txlege wendy davis Source Type: blogs
Thank You Wendy Davis, Leticia Van De Putte, and Everyone Who Turned Out in Texas
There are no words but “thank you.” Your stamina and commitment are admirable and inspiring. Whatever we can do to help prepare for July 1, let’s do it.
Pretend all this cheering is my message to you:
Love, from Nashville.
Filed under: Access, Rights, & Choice, Events & Observances, Government (Source: Women's Health News)
Source: Women's Health News - June 27, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Access, Rights, & Choice Events & Observances Government Abortion leticia van de putte sb5 standwithwendy Texas txlege wendy davis Source Type: blogs
Sunday News Round-Up, Everything is Miscellaneous Edition
I’m playing around with a tumblr companion to this site, located at http://womenshealthnewstumbles.tumblr.com/. I haven’t fully decided how much effort I can put into it, but I thought I’d copy posts over there, reblog things of interest, and otherwise post quick link items that don’t require much commentary. There may be a few more off-topic sorts of commentary things there as well, like one on my firsthand experience of Paula Deen’s racist waitstaff fantasy.
Recent posts over at Our Bodies Our Blog: WHO Releases Global Report on Health Effects of Violence Against Women; Groundbreaking Stud...
Source: Women's Health News - June 23, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Abuse, Rape, & Safety Access, Rights, & Choice Adolescent Health Birth Contraception Drugs Events & Observances Global Issues Government HIV/AIDS Libraryland Miscellaneous News Round-Ups Pregnancy bullying child ca Source Type: blogs
Sunday News Round-Up, Everything is Miscellaneous Edition
I’m playing around with a tumblr companion to this site, located at http://womenshealthnewstumbles.tumblr.com/. I haven’t fully decided how much effort I can put into it, but I thought I’d copy posts over there, reblog things of interest, and otherwise post quick link items that don’t require much commentary. There may be a few more off-topic sorts of commentary things there as well, like one on my firsthand experience of Paula Deen’s racist waitstaff fantasy.
Recent posts over at Our Bodies Our Blog: WHO Releases Global Report on Health Effects of Violence Against Women; Groundbreaking Stud...
Source: Women's Health News - June 23, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Abuse, Rape, & Safety Access, Rights, & Choice Adolescent Health Birth Contraception Drugs Events & Observances Global Issues Government HIV/AIDS Libraryland Miscellaneous News Round-Ups Pregnancy bullying child ca Source Type: blogs
How Even an Article on Not Blaming Rape Victims Can Blame Rape Victims
Over at Slate, Rebecca Ruiz has an article, “Why Don’t Cops Believe Rape Victims?” We know that blaming, shaming, and disbelieving victims contributes both to rape victims not reporting to police and rapists being free to continue raping. The Slate article focuses on the ways that rape victims respond to the trauma, and then talks about how increasing scientific understanding of how the brain responds to trauma can be used to convince law enforcement agents that their interpretation of a victim’s flat affect, cloudy memories, and other responses – namely, their assumption that victims are lying &#...
Source: Women's Health News - June 20, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abuse, Rape, & Safety Government police rape culture victim blaming Source Type: blogs
Sunday News Round-Up, OBOS-Style
This week I’m highlighting some things from Our Bodies Ourselves!
Some recent posts of interest that I have up at the Our Bodies Ourselves blog:
New Developments in OTC Emergency Contraception Court Case
The Obama administration – via the Justice Department – is still appealing the order that emergency contraception be made available to women and girls of all ages without prescription. So far the courts aren’t really going for it, having partially denied a stay pending appeal. Please do carry the appeal as far as you can, Justice Department, so we can have more illogical testimony on the record and ...
Source: Women's Health News - June 9, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Access, Rights, & Choice Adolescent Health Birth Contraception Global Issues Government Laws, Legislation, & Courts News Round-Ups Pregnancy Affordable Care Act books childbirth Educate Congress emergency contraception facebook Source Type: blogs
Video Available from Hearing on Sexual Assault in the Military
Video from the Senate Committee Armed Services heard testimony earlier this week on sexual assault in the military, including military leaders as well as representatives from outside groups. The hearings were aired on C-SPAN, and video is archived on that site for viewing, split into 3 parts.
Panel 1 – Lots of questions to a panel of military leaders – I think all of one of them was a woman. Senator Joe Manchin points out, in response to a leader talking about how change should start at the top and responsibility should stay with Commanders, that the problem has been known for more than 20 years and “it&...
Source: Women's Health News - June 6, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abuse, Rape, & Safety Access, Rights, & Choice Ethics Government c-span military sexual assault Source Type: blogs
Lies, Half-Truths, and Deliberately Misleading Adolescents about Sex at Hillsboro High
More on this when I’m not sick with a sore throat. For now I will just say that I consider it morally repugnant to mislead teens and to present them with religious opinions about sex in a public school setting instead of facts that could help keep them healthy. Want to complain about the possibility of condoms failing? Then talk about correct use, back-ups, and emergency contraception. This lecture was nothing more than fear-mongering and trying to drum up new clients for a faith-based “clinic” that will not provide birth control or refer for abortion services – in other words, they want women to ma...
Source: Women's Health News - May 27, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Access, Rights, & Choice Adolescent Health Ethics adolescents Hillsboro High School lies Nashville sex education teens TN Source Type: blogs
In Case You Thought a Doctor Who Acknowledges Sleeping with His Patients Might Actually Get Punished
In a few previous round-up posts, I mentioned the case of Scott DesJarlais, anti-abortion Tennessee Republican who, as a physician, had sex with some of his female patients and recorded himself pressuring one to get an abortion. The Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners reviewed the complaints against DesJarlais this week.
You’d think such an abuse of the authority of and trust patients have in a physician would warrant serious punishment, right? Like loss of one’s medical license?
Nope. DesJarlais remains a practicing physician. He’s being fined $250 per patient (so $500 fine for the actual offenses), pl...
Source: Women's Health News - May 24, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abuse, Rape, & Safety doctors Scott DesJarlais Tennessee Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners unprofessional conduct Source Type: blogs
#nerdbrain
Her: Add something zippy to the beginning of this article.
Me: Here are some percentages about HPV types and cervical and anal cancer!
Sometimes I feel sorry for my editor for National Women’s Health Network newsletter articles. Susan Flinn, you’re terrific!
Filed under: Miscellaneous, Reviews (Source: Women's Health News)
Source: Women's Health News - May 16, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Miscellaneous Reviews thanks Source Type: blogs
Belated Sunday News Round-Up – Monday, Last Day of Vacation-Style
Tomorrow I’ll go back to work after being out since Friday, May 3rd. Since that time, I’ve cleaned house for an overnight family guest, prepped and packed for a conference, spent 4 days at or traveling to/from the annual Medical Library Association conference (where I gave a presentation, attended a committee meeting, and served as an official conference blogger, along with various other conference obligations). Then I came home where I updated my resume, looked at job descriptions, worked on a cover letter, wrote the first draft of my next NWHN newsletter article, and had introvert recovery time. I also threw ...
Source: Women's Health News - May 13, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Abuse, Rape, & Safety Access, Rights, & Choice Adolescent Health Birth Drugs Events & Observances Global Issues Government Laws, Legislation, & Courts Miscellaneous News Round-Ups Pregnancy Sex & Sex Education Women's Source Type: blogs
Midwifery and Abortion in Terry Pratchett’s “Equal Rites”
I just finished reading Terry Pratchett’s Equal Rites, and noticed several somewhat coded references to women’s reproductive health topics, and would love to know if other readers caught others.
First up, “Old Granny is up with my wife right now,” said by the smith, whose wife is giving birth. “Granny” is a common old term in the U.S. south for a lay midwife. Granny Weatherwax is a witch, too, the concepts of witches and midwives as women healers being somewhat intertwined in the imagination and history.
Later: “Esk knew that she [Granny] was famous throughout the mountains for sp...
Source: Women's Health News - May 13, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Libraryland Menstruation Reviews books herbs Midwifery Terry Pratchett witches Source Type: blogs
