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Category: Adolescent Medicine
John McCain got Sarah Palin's daughter pregnant.
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Category: Adolescent Medicine
John McCain got Sarah Palin's daughter pregnant.
Posted by Signout at 5:16 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Most normal people, I imagine, are asked to understand that good people make mistakes maybe once a day. In the emergency department, providers are asked to understand this about 10 times an hour. It gets old fast.
Posted by Signout at 9:45 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Adolescent Medicine
It's hard to overestimate the distance between most lawmakers and the fifteen-year old girls with skinny hands and ruined lives.
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Category: Adolescent Medicine
Precious had been hospitalized many times before. She knew what worried doctors, and early on, she made damn sure we worried about her.
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Category: Adolescent Medicine
After the thighs are gone and the belly is flat, it's about seeing the scale needle continue to move downward; demonstrating how much control you really have; putting one over on your stupid parents; proving yourself a winner at something.
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Category: Adolescent Medicine
For most of my adolescence, all I wanted was for someone to sit me down and say, "Your body isn't what makes you worth loving," but it didn't come-not for years.
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Category: Media
If this lady is SERIOUSLY going to suggest that in the face of other preventive options, we choose to rely on the often-imperfectly-used condom for prevention of STD's, especially among adolescents whose access to them is determined by how much their school districts' chieftains love Jesus, then she is just insane.
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