by DrRoger | Sep 18, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
With all due respect to my lawyer and architecture friends (including my architect son Taylor in Seattle, WA), I believe that medicine remains one great meritocracies in the United States. Certainly, much greater than even being President where it appears that any...
by DrRoger | Aug 21, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
After writing a blog about placentophagy the challenge was to find a topic people wanted to hear about even less. Yesterday, I had my colonoscopy. Every now and then, it’s good for the physician to become the patient. Colonoscopy was invented in 1969 by Drs. William...
by DrRoger | Aug 7, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
I’ve been an Ob-Gyn for a long time. The late 70’s and early 80’s were a simpler time. Donald Trump would say happier, better time, but his memory is a bit selective. Following deliveries we’d put the placental afterbirth in a plastic bag and toss it in a -80...
by DrRoger | Jul 6, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
Despite recent blogs on topics such as prescription opioid addiction, Zika virus and rising cesarean rates, the true heavyweight champion in the world of obstetrics has been, and remains, preterm birth (PTB). Seventy-five percent of non-anomalous infant deaths less...
by DrRoger | Jun 22, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
On May 16th my Post Script blog addressed the “Prescription Opioid Abuse Epidemic” going on in the United States. Seemed like something good was happening. An FDA Advisory Panel had just voted unanimously to REQUIRE expanded education and training of providers to...
by DrRoger | Jun 6, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
Over the past decade, obstetrics has experienced a relatively quiet but dramatic reduction in the rate of preterm birth. The national rate of preterm delivery has fallen more than 10% from its peak of 12.8% in 2006. We aren’t better in predicting who’ll...
