Stellar Women's Health Specialist Research Paper

Maternity care in the United States is in jeopardy. There is an increasing trend of shortages of obstetrician-gynecologists and family physicians that once provided vital maternity care. With almost half of the nation’s counties lacking an obstetric provider, approximately ten million women are affected. Obstetricians-gynecologist themselves are also feeling the burdens of the understaffed hospitals and clinics with prolonged work hours. These medical professionals who dedicate their very lives to the field and the care of women are under a great amount of pressure and stress due to the shrinking workforce. Furthermore, interest amongst the youth is necessary in order to have an ample amounts of physicians available to replace the increasing

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Lifelong sexual health for adolescents requires this vulnerable population have information about and access to affordable, youth-friendly, and culturally competent sexual healthcare services. In addition, the providers of these sexual healthcare services should be trained to respect privacy and support these teens in making individualized choices that are appropriate for them. As evidenced by the rate of STIs and unplanned pregnancy among marginalized youth populations, barriers such as stigma, discrimination, lack of knowledgeable providers, cost burden,

I have always been interested in the healthcare field, but it was not until my senior year in high school that I found obstetrics and women’s health. Now for the past four years, I have committed myself to the field, searching and seizing all the possible opportunities to experience the discipline. My love of the field has grown deeper and deeper and I hope to continue to pursue a medical doctorate specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. In the future, I hope to open my own obstetrics and gynecological practice in my hometown of Ithaca, NY. Currently there is only one OB-GYN practice in all of Ithaca and thus women have limited choice in who their doctors are. The OB-GYN practice in Ithaca currently has a monopoly. Having

Growing up as a female, you learn about the point in time when you change from a girl to a woman in society. This can be seen as a blessing or a curse to many females as it always is to endure one’s menstrual cycle. The journey, for me, was untypical for a girl my age. While all my friends were talking about how they received their first period I was still waiting for mine to arrive. While everyone was having their biological change into womanhood I was left behind wondering when I will get my turn to grow as a woman. I went years waiting for my cycle to begin, but nothing ever did. When I entered my sophomore year of high school, I started developing pains. These pains would make sitting uncomfortable and intolerable to me especially during school so I decided to go to the doctors to see what was happening to me.

Women in today’s society have a lot more power and say in what they can or cannot do.

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The team at North Coast OB/GYN operates with a simple mission—to provide the highest possible care to their clients while maintaining a comfortable and welcoming atmosphere. Their routine care services focus on promoting wellness with preventative healthcare, and they use this philosophy to encourage continued health at every stage of life—even into menopause. From walking a patient through their first gynecological exam to providing sensitive testing for

Women Partners in Health is proud to welcome Bailey Escarzaga, M.D., and Laura Eastep, M.D. Schedule an appointment to receive support and knowledge to achieve optimal health, from adolescence to menopause and

A new study says women who quit smoking may suffer less hot flashes during menopause. So if you’re a smoking woman getting to be of a certain age, you may want to extinguish that cigarette.

Coming into the emergency medical service world as a woman you can face many difficulties. It takes a strong individual and committed woman to enter into emergency medical services. Women are the minority in this field so there can be many twists and turns having a career in EMS. Women got their feet into the EMS career world by becoming firefighters first.

We at the Women's Health Resource Center are pleased to welcome Nurse Practitioners Inna Anderson FNP-C and Beatrice Bellanton FNP-C, to our growing Gynecological Practice. Beatrice and Inna will participate in a wide range of patient care needs with Dr. Besong.

1. Menopause: (from Greek mēn month + pausis halt)- the period in a woman's life when menstruation begins to halt. The average age is 51 but it can occur between the ages of 45 and 55. The menopausal transformation lasts around 4 years.

Aside from being told they are too young to have the disease, many teenagers who think they may have endometriosis are said to be crazy, as Ballweg says in her book, “A disease that will be chalked up to psychosomatic problems by some because they lack awareness about endo… one can understand why endo is very challenging for those with it, particularly teenagers” (Ballweg 241). In an experiment, 4,000 women were interviewed, and 61% were originally told nothing was wrong, where 69% of these were gynecologists themselves. More funding and research will lead to more awareness, and problems such as these can be avoided in the future, if the necessary things are done for improvement today.

As previously mention, hysterectomy is the most frequent non pregnancies related surgeries performed on women in the United States (Qi et al., 2013). Hysterectomies are the 2nd most commonly performed procedures among women of childbearing age (Everyday Health, 2015). The majority of women that undergo hysterectomy are usually between the ages of 35 and 54; within that group women between the ages of 35 and 44 have the highest risk of undergo the procedure (Right Diagnosis, 2015). 90% of the women are not really medically in need of the procedure, because they are not life threatening conditions such as uterine fibroid, endometriosis and uterine prolapse (Everyday Health, 2015).