tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post1171525139849460389..comments2024-01-29T23:40:39.265-05:00Comments on Hysterectomy - the Experts Speak Out: PAYING FOR THE BAILOUTHERS Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08624611382874234485noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-79189439272935755642010-01-03T03:45:44.627-05:002010-01-03T03:45:44.627-05:00I think that if you can avoid the surgery all the ...I think that if you can avoid the surgery all the better i had one 15 weeks ago and still have lots of pain when standing, even a simple tast of washing dishes i want to climb the walls with the pain as for the orgasims part i find that they have diminished hardly get them any more. So if you can stay clear away....Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10024973572652964848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-39596014554021776802009-11-14T18:18:56.562-05:002009-11-14T18:18:56.562-05:00Perhaps it would be good to get a ballot going in ...Perhaps it would be good to get a ballot going in congress for the wounded womens woumbs - www. This will give us a voice, what do you think?farrkbrendahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01646278381827325502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-85217622150037175202009-03-21T19:33:00.000-04:002009-03-21T19:33:00.000-04:00Ask your friends and family members to sign the pe...Ask your friends and family members to sign the petition too!<BR/><BR/>http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/saynotilyouknow/<BR/><BR/>Let's stop the "carnage!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-33883055561032572732009-03-21T10:35:00.000-04:002009-03-21T10:35:00.000-04:00If you want to support creating a law that will co...If you want to support creating a law that will compel doctors to provide the information women need before they are told to sign a hysterectomy consent form go to http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/saynotilyouknow/<BR/>and SIGN the PETITION. You have the power to help HERS stop this from becoming the legacy of the next generation of women and girls.HERS Foundationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08624611382874234485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-8873811109114286002009-03-19T18:40:00.000-04:002009-03-19T18:40:00.000-04:00To discuss physician referral please contact Irene...To discuss physician referral please contact Irene Park at HERS, Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm, at 610.667.7757.HERS Foundationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08624611382874234485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-33169227953122528872009-02-21T16:02:00.000-05:002009-02-21T16:02:00.000-05:00My wife was told to have a hysterectomy, but we ar...My wife was told to have a hysterectomy, but we are resistaing that proposal until we get at least a 2nd maybe 3rd opinion. The problem is that we are having hard time getting someone to take my wife as a patient without a referral. My wife knows of a doctor that she would like to see, but her primary OB/GYN has refused to to make a referral on her behalf. This has upset both of us. We will be in the Virginia Hampton Roads area in May. Can you assist us in getting someone to give a second opinion on this hysterectomy recommendation? <BR/><BR/>Background: Her pprimary OB/GYN told her there were too many fibroids to save her uterus, but we have been researching through the Internet and others that have had fibroid problems and everyone is telling us that the doctor was too quick to make that decision.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-77378271304160104222009-02-19T18:51:00.000-05:002009-02-19T18:51:00.000-05:00In response to the "Castration in Humans" post:"Ho...In response to the "Castration in Humans" post:<BR/><BR/>"However, in the late 1800s, the Roman Catholic Church, which had always considered castration to be mutilation of the body and therefore a severe sin, officially condemned the production of castrati; their castrations had been performed clandestinely in contravention of Church law.[citation needed]"<BR/><BR/>The Roman Catholic Church is a big perpetrator in the castration industry, severe sin or not. A Catholic hospital is just as likely to be the scene of a castration as a non-Catholic hospital.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-3338648045179525422009-02-18T18:29:00.000-05:002009-02-18T18:29:00.000-05:00From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCastration in...From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<BR/>Castration in humans <BR/>"The practice of castration has its roots before recorded human history.[1] Castration was frequently used in certain cultures of Europe, the Middle East, India, Africa and China, for religious or social reasons. After battles in some cases, winners castrated their captives or the corpses of the defeated to symbolise their victory and 'seize' their power, and often to take control of their women. Castrated men — eunuchs — were often admitted to special social classes and were used particularly to staff bureaucracies and palace households: in particular, the harem. Castration also figured in a number of religious cults. Other religions, for example Judaism and Islam, were strongly opposed to the practice. The Leviticus Holiness code, for example, specifically excludes eunuchs or any males with defective genitals from the priesthood, just as castrated animals are excluded from sacrifice.<BR/><BR/>Eunuchs in China have been known to usurp power in many eras of Chinese history, most notably in the Later Han, late Tang and late Ming Dynasties. Gang Bing, a Ming Dynasty Chinese general and eunuch was notable for his act of self-castration as a display of loyalty to his emperor. There are similar recorded Middle Eastern events.<BR/><BR/>In ancient times, castration often involved the total removal of all the male genitalia. This involved great danger of death due to bleeding or infection and, in some states, such as the Byzantine Empire, was seen as the same as a death sentence. Removal of only the testicles had much less risk.<BR/><BR/>In China, castration of a male who entered the caste of eunuchs during imperial times involved the removal of the whole genitalia, that is, the removal of the testes, penis, and scrotum. The removed organs were returned to the eunuch to be interred with him when he died so that, upon rebirth, he could become a whole man again. The penis, testicles, and scrotum were euphemistically termed bǎo (寶) in Mandarin Chinese, which literally means 'precious treasure'. These were preserved in alcohol and kept in a pottery jar by the eunuch.[2]<BR/><BR/>In modern times, Czech Republic practices castrating convicted sex offenders. According to the reports compiled by Council of Europe, a human-rights forum, central European country castrated at least 94 prisoners in the 10 years up to April 2008. Czech Republic defends procedure as voluntary and effective. [3]<BR/><BR/><BR/>[edit] Medical<BR/>Testicular cancer is generally diagnosed by surgical removal of a tumorous testicle (inguinal orchiectomy), followed by radiation or chemotherapy if a cancerous tumor has metastasized. Unless both testicles are cancerous, only one is removed.<BR/><BR/>Either surgical removal of both testicles or chemical castration may be carried out in the case of prostate cancer,[4] as hormone testosterone-depletion treatment to slow down the cancer. Similarly, testosterone-depletion treatment (either surgical removal of both testicles or chemical castration) is used to greatly reduce sexual drive or interest in those with sexual drives, obsessions, or behaviors, or any combination of those that may be considered deviant. Castration in humans has been proposed, and sometimes used, as a method of birth control in economically or geographically restricted regions, such as the Chatham Islands in the southwest Pacific.<BR/><BR/>Male-to-female transsexuals often undergo orchiectomy, as do some other transgendered people. Orchiectomy may be performed as a part of more general sex reassignment surgery, either before or during other procedures, but it may also be performed on someone who does not desire, or cannot afford, further surgery.[citation needed]<BR/><BR/><BR/>[edit] As punishment<BR/>Involuntary castration also appears in the history of warfare, sometimes used by one side to torture or demoralize their enemies. Even when performed quickly, as by a sword strike, it is excruciatingly painful, because not only the testicles, but also the spermatic cords, are thickly wrapped in nerve fibers and extremely sensitive to impact and injury, but most castrations as punishments were performed as slowly as possible to worsen the intensity of the victim's agony and lengthen its duration. Standard practice in France from the Middle-Ages to the French Revolution was to crush the condemned's testicles in a vise, which burst them as mush from the scrotum, then crunch the spermatic cords with pliers. The condemned was turned upside down in order to maximize the blood flow to his brain after which he was unable to pass out or enter a state of shock until, perhaps, the last few seconds of his ordeal. The condemned was sure to vomit repeatedly with violent convulsions, even well after he had voided the contents of his stomach, but he rarely screamed except for an initial shriek, which immediately silenced, because the pain overwhelmed his ability to breathe. Most men would hang and thrash wildly during and after the crushing of each testicle, and their thrashing would renew upon the crushing of each spermatic cord, This torture method (accompanied by others) was usually reserved for the crime of regicide or attempted regicide. The condemned was mercifully put to death afterwards, but his torture routinely lasted for the better part of a day, witnessed by large crowds. It is interesting to note that, whereas most crowds were instructed to jeer, mock, and ridicule the condemned, and did so even during a disemboweling, and drawing and quartering, most crowds remained silent and stared with shocked expressions as a castration was carried out in this manner. Onlookers, male and female, are recorded to have vomited at the sight of the spectacle. The crushing of the spermatic cords produces a sound, which veterinarians (who routinely perform this castration procedure on anaesthetized, large livestock, such as horses) usually describe as similar to crushing an entire head of frozen celery, wrapped in rubber bands. Castration was also practiced to extinguish opposing male lineages and thus allow the victor to sexually possess the defeated group's women.<BR/><BR/>Tamerlane was recorded to have castrated Armenian prisoners of war who had fought as allies of the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, while others were buried alive.[citation needed]<BR/><BR/>Edward Gibbon's famous work Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire reports castration of defeated foes at the hands of the Normans. Castration has also been used in modern conflicts, as the Janjaweed militiamen attacking citizens of the Darfur region in Sudan, often castrating villagers and leaving them to bleed to death.[5]<BR/><BR/>Sima Qian, the famous Chinese historian, was castrated by order of the Han dynasty Emperor Wu for dissent.[6]<BR/><BR/>Another famous victim of castration was the medieval French philosopher, scholar, teacher, and (later) monk Pierre Abélard, castrated by relatives of his lover, Héloïse.[citation needed]<BR/><BR/>Bishop Wimund, a 12th century English adventurer and invader of the Scottish coast, was also castrated.[citation needed]<BR/><BR/>"Voluntary" chemical or surgical castration has been in practice in many countries—reports are available from American, Scandinavian, and European countries, in particular, for the past eighty-plus years (chemical for the last thirty or so years)—as an option for treatment for people who have broken laws of a sexual nature, allowing them to return to the community from otherwise lengthy detentions [7]. The effectiveness and ethics of this treatment are heavily debated.<BR/><BR/>A temporary chemical castration has been studied and developed as a preventive measure and punishment for several repeated sex crimes, such as rape or other sexually related violence.[8][9] Chemical castration was Alan Turing's punishment when he was convicted of "acts of gross indecency" (homosexual acts) in 1952; it resulted, indirectly, in his suicide.<BR/><BR/>Physical castration appears to be highly effective as, historically, it results in a 20-year re-offense rate of less than 2.3% vs. 80% in the untreated control group, according to a large 1963 study involving a total of 1036 sex offenders by the German researcher A. Langelüddeke, among others,[10] much lower than what was otherwise expected compared to overall sex offender recidivism rates.<BR/><BR/><BR/>[edit] For religious reasons<BR/>In Europe, when women were not permitted to sing in church or cathedral choirs in the Roman Catholic Church, boys were sometimes castrated to prevent their voices breaking at puberty and to develop a special high voice. The first documents mentioning castrati are Italian church records from the 1550s.[11] In the baroque music era these singers were highly appreciated by Opera composers as well. Famous castrati include Farinelli, Senesino, Carestini, and Caffarelli. Joseph Haydn was almost castrated. The last castrato, and the only one of which recordings are extant, was Alessandro Moreschi (1858-1922) who served in the Sistine Chapel Choir.[12] However, in the late 1800s, the Roman Catholic Church, which had always considered castration to be mutilation of the body and therefore a severe sin, officially condemned the production of castrati; their castrations had been performed clandestinely in contravention of Church law.[citation needed]<BR/><BR/>A number of religious cults have included castration as a central theme of their practice. These include:<BR/><BR/>The cult of Cybele, in which devotees castrated themselves in ecstatic emulation of Attis: see Gallus. <BR/>Some followers of early Christianity considered castration as an acceptable way to counter sinful desires of the flesh. Origen is reported by Eusebius [13] to have castrated himself based on his reading of the Gospel of Matthew 19:12, although there is some doubt concerning this story (Schaff[citation needed] considers the account genuine but cites Baur et al.[citation needed] in opposition). Boston Corbett was likewise inspired by this same verse to castrate himself (Corbett was the 19th-century American soldier who is generally believed to have fired the shot that killed John Wilkes Booth.) Bishop Melito of Sardis (d. ca 180) was a eunuch, according to the church history of Eusebius of Caesarea, though, significantly the word "virgin" was substituted in Rufino's Latin translation of Eusebius. First Canon of First Council of Nicea condemns self-castration, attesting to presence of this practice in 4th century. <BR/>Skoptsy <BR/>Heaven's Gate <BR/>While Deuteronomy 23:1 expels castrated men from the assembly of Israel, Isaiah 56:3, while not permitting castration still allows an accepting view of eunuchs. However, this verse is seen as a metaphor by classic scholors. In Acts 8:34-39, a eunuch is baptized.<BR/><BR/><BR/>[edit] Chemical<BR/>Main article: Chemical castration<BR/>In the case of chemical castration, ongoing regular injections of anti-androgens are required.<BR/><BR/>Chemical castration seems to have a greater effect on bone density than physical castration. Since the development of teriparatide, this severe bone loss has been able to be reversed in nearly every case. At this time there is a limitation on the use of this medication to 24 months until the long-term use is better evaluated.<BR/><BR/>With the advent of chemical castration, physical castration is not generally recommended by the medical community unless medically necessary or desired.<BR/><BR/><BR/>[edit] Medical consequences<BR/>A male subject who is castrated before the onset of puberty will retain a high voice, non-muscular build, and small genitals. Castrated boys may grow to be taller than average men because, without the input of hormones, the long bones continue to grow. This extra height is referred to sometimes as the 'eunuchoid' effect. This can be avoided in trans girls (those who transition from boy to girl) by administering estrogen which caps unwanted growth. The person may not develop pubic hair and will have a small sex drive or none at all. Castrations after the onset of puberty will typically reduce sex drive considerably or eliminate it altogether. Also, castrates are automatically sterile, because the testes produce sex cells needed for sexual reproduction. The voice does not deepen with the onset of puberty. Some castrates report mood changes, such as depression or a more serene outlook on life. Body strength and muscle mass can decrease somewhat. Body hair sometimes may decrease. Castration prevents male pattern baldness if it is done before hair is lost; however, castration will not restore hair growth after hair has already been lost.[14] Castration necessarily eliminates the risk of testicular cancer.<BR/><BR/>Historically, eunuchs who additionally underwent a penectomy reportedly suffered from urinary incontinence associated with the removal of the penis, and they had their own specialist doctors.[15]<BR/><BR/>Without hormone replacement therapy (HRT), typical symptoms (similar to those experienced by menopausal women) include hot flashes; gradual bone density loss, possibly resulting in osteopenia and/or osteoporosis; potential weight gain or redistribution of body fat to the hips and/or chest. Replacement of testosterone via gel, patches, or injections, can largely reverse these effects, although breast enlargement has also been reported as a possible side effect of testosterone usage.[16]<BR/><BR/>The concept of castration anxiety plays an important role in psychoanalysis, though in this field the term sometimes refers to removal of penis rather than of testes.<BR/><BR/>As a matter of interest, some modern day Eunuchs use the title or prefix "Eu." rather than "Mr.". ie: "Eu. John Smith"."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-22810951221723875662009-02-11T08:49:00.000-05:002009-02-11T08:49:00.000-05:00"Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" Excer..."Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" <BR/><BR/>Excerpt:<BR/><BR/>"There is one place in which one's privacy, intimacy, integrity and inviolability are guaranteed – one's body, a unique temple and a familiar territory of sensa and personal history. The torturer invades, defiles and desecrates this shrine. He does so publicly, deliberately, repeatedly and, often, sadistically and sexually, with undisguised pleasure. Hence the all-pervasive, long-lasting, and, frequently, irreversible effects and outcomes of torture.<BR/><BR/>In a way, the torture victim's own body is rendered his worse enemy. It is corporeal agony that compels the sufferer to mutate, his identity to fragment, his ideals and principles to crumble. The body becomes an accomplice of the tormentor, an uninterruptible channel of communication, a treasonous, poisoned territory.<BR/><BR/>It fosters a humiliating dependency of the abused on the perpetrator. Bodily needs denied – sleep, toilet, food, water – are wrongly perceived by the victim as the direct causes of his degradation and dehumanization. As he sees it, he is rendered bestial not by the sadistic bullies around him but by his own flesh.<BR/><BR/>The concept of "body" can easily be extended to "family", or "home". Torture is often applied to kin and kith, compatriots, or colleagues. This intends to disrupt the continuity of "surroundings, habits, appearance, relations with others", as the CIA put it in one of its manuals. A sense of cohesive self-identity depends crucially on the familiar and the continuous. By attacking both one's biological body and one's "social body", the victim's psyche is strained to the point of dissociation.<BR/><BR/>Beatrice Patsalides describes this transmogrification thus in "Ethics of the Unspeakable: Torture Survivors in Psychoanalytic Treatment":<BR/><BR/>"As the gap between the 'I' and the 'me' deepens, dissociation and alienation increase. The subject that, under torture, was forced into the position of pure object has lost his or her sense of interiority, intimacy, and privacy. Time is experienced now, in the present only, and perspective – that which allows for a sense of relativity – is foreclosed. Thoughts and dreams attack the mind and invade the body as if the protective skin that normally contains our thoughts, gives us space to breathe in between the thought and the thing being thought about, and separates between inside and outside, past and present, me and you, was lost."<BR/><BR/>Torture robs the victim of the most basic modes of relating to reality and, thus, is the equivalent of cognitive death. Space and time are warped by sleep deprivation. The self ("I") is shattered. The tortured have nothing familiar to hold on to: family, home, personal belongings, loved ones, language, name. Gradually, they lose their mental resilience and sense of freedom. They feel alien – unable to communicate, relate, attach, or empathize with others.<BR/><BR/>Torture splinters early childhood grandiose narcissistic fantasies of uniqueness, omnipotence, invulnerability, and impenetrability. But it enhances the fantasy of merger with an idealized and omnipotent (though not benign) other – the inflicter of agony. The twin processes of individuation and separation are reversed.<BR/><BR/>Torture is the ultimate act of perverted intimacy. The torturer invades the victim's body, pervades his psyche, and possesses his mind. Deprived of contact with others and starved for human interactions, the prey bonds with the predator. "Traumatic bonding", akin to the Stockholm Syndrome, is about hope and the search for meaning in the brutal and indifferent and nightmarish universe of the torture cell.<BR/><BR/>The abuser becomes the black hole at the center of the victim's surrealistic galaxy, sucking in the sufferer's universal need for solace. The victim tries to "control" his tormentor by becoming one with him (introjecting him) and by appealing to the monster's presumably dormant humanity and empathy.<BR/><BR/>This bonding is especially strong when the torturer and the tortured form a dyad and "collaborate" in the rituals and acts of torture (for instance, when the victim is coerced into selecting the torture implements and the types of torment to be inflicted, or to choose between two evils).<BR/><BR/>The psychologist Shirley Spitz offers this powerful overview of the contradictory nature of torture in a seminar titled "The Psychology of Torture" (1989):<BR/><BR/>"Torture is an obscenity in that it joins what is most private with what is most public. Torture entails all the isolation and extreme solitude of privacy with none of the usual security embodied therein... Torture entails at the same time all the self-exposure of the utterly public with none of its possibilities for camaraderie or shared experience. (The presence of an all powerful other with whom to merge, without the security of the other's benign intentions.)<BR/><BR/>A further obscenity of torture is the inversion it makes of intimate human relationships. The interrogation is a form of social encounter in which the normal rules of communicating, of relating, of intimacy are manipulated. Dependency needs are elicited by the interrogator, but not so they may be met as in close relationships, but to weaken and confuse. Independence that is offered in return for 'betrayal' is a lie. Silence is intentionally misinterpreted either as confirmation of information or as guilt for 'complicity'.<BR/><BR/>Torture combines complete humiliating exposure with utter devastating isolation. The final products and outcome of torture are a scarred and often shattered victim and an empty display of the fiction of power."<BR/><BR/>Obsessed by endless ruminations, demented by pain and a continuum of sleeplessness – the victim regresses, shedding all but the most primitive defense mechanisms: splitting, narcissism, dissociation, Projective Identification, introjection, and cognitive dissonance. The victim constructs an alternative world, often suffering from depersonalization and derealization, hallucinations, ideas of reference, delusions, and psychotic episodes.<BR/><BR/>Sometimes the victim comes to crave pain – very much as self-mutilators do – because it is a proof and a reminder of his individuated existence otherwise blurred by the incessant torture. Pain shields the sufferer from disintegration and capitulation. It preserves the veracity of his unthinkable and unspeakable experiences.<BR/><BR/>This dual process of the victim's alienation and addiction to anguish complements the perpetrator's view of his quarry as "inhuman", or "subhuman". The torturer assumes the position of the sole authority, the exclusive fount of meaning and interpretation, the source of both evil and good.<BR/><BR/>Torture is about reprogramming the victim to succumb to an alternative exegesis of the world, proffered by the abuser. It is an act of deep, indelible, traumatic indoctrination. The abused also swallows whole and assimilates the torturer's negative view of him and often, as a result, is rendered suicidal, self-destructive, or self-defeating.<BR/><BR/>Thus, torture has no cut-off date. The sounds, the voices, the smells, the sensations reverberate long after the episode has ended – both in nightmares and in waking moments. The victim's ability to trust other people – i.e., to assume that their motives are at least rational, if not necessarily benign – has been irrevocably undermined. Social institutions are perceived as precariously poised on the verge of an ominous, Kafkaesque mutation. Nothing is either safe, or credible anymore.<BR/><BR/>Victims typically react by undulating between emotional numbing and increased arousal: insomnia, irritability, restlessness, and attention deficits. Recollections of the traumatic events intrude in the form of dreams, night terrors, flashbacks, and distressing associations.<BR/><BR/>The tortured develop compulsive rituals to fend off obsessive thoughts. Other psychological sequelae reported include cognitive impairment, reduced capacity to learn, memory disorders, sexual dysfunction, social withdrawal, inability to maintain long-term relationships, or even mere intimacy, phobias, ideas of reference and superstitions, delusions, hallucinations, psychotic microepisodes, and emotional flatness."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-82256559559214624032009-02-09T05:33:00.000-05:002009-02-09T05:33:00.000-05:00GOOD ONE! Hysterectomied women are tortured in the...GOOD ONE! Hysterectomied women are tortured in the worse way. Everything seems to be controlled by laws except destroying a woman's life by ripping out her healthy organs. If that's not torture, what is?<BR/><BR/>I don't think the government will ever step in and do something about this worse kind of abuse against women and their families.<BR/><BR/>TOO MUCH MONEY BEING MADE!!Graciehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10963629715157154526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-86457300592743908372009-02-09T04:33:00.000-05:002009-02-09T04:33:00.000-05:00Torture is illegal under national and internationa...Torture is illegal under national and international law; yet many nations still employ torture as a means to terrorize and intimidate their citizens. The methods of torture are as varied as they are cruel: rape, whipping, suspension upside down, submersion in water to the brink of death, burning, and electric shocks to sensitive areas, among others. Psychological torture includes humiliation, degrading insults, threats (both personal and directed towards family members), and torturing loved ones in front of family and friends.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-57471057767672748572009-02-08T21:00:00.000-05:002009-02-08T21:00:00.000-05:00STOP the bailouts to doctors and hospitals that pe...STOP the bailouts to doctors and hospitals that perform damaging surgeries especially unnecessary hysterectomies and castrations. They profit even after the surgery because you have a life-time of expenses going from doctor to doctor and having a drawer full of medication that you soon discover doesn't help. The consequences of this damaging surgery is forever. It damages the woman and her family. She is unable to work as before her surgery. We end up disabled. We are the ones who should get a bailout!<BR/><BR/>STOP the insurances companies from getting any bailouts because they pay for these unnecessary surgeries. I even wrote to my insurance company and told them to stop paying for hysterectomies and castrations and they told me they weren't able to do anything about it. They are forced to pay for surgeries whether they are necessary or unnecessary. WHAT AN ANSWER!!!<BR/><BR/>The law as it is written protect the doctors and hospitals. They are allowed to do whatever they want and the courts let them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-73686123985316726692009-02-01T18:57:00.000-05:002009-02-01T18:57:00.000-05:00Rachel Maddow is a host on the Rachel Maddow Show ...Rachel Maddow is a host on the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC. Please take a few minutes to email her at rachel@msnbc.com and describe your experience in a short summary. Also ask her to contact the HERS Foundation and to visit their website www.hersfoundation.org and blog www.hysterectomyinformation.<BR/>blogspot.com/. Please ask Rachel to contact HERS about the solution to this problem, HAVE LAW.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-89837750869051782642009-01-27T18:58:00.000-05:002009-01-27T18:58:00.000-05:00Proof of the deception these surgeons use to prote...Proof of the deception these surgeons use to protect their revenue stream from these very profitable surgeries:<BR/><BR/>In 1994, Dr. West wrote of attending a seminar on medical economics: "The topic was how to care for women in order to maximise our fee. The experts who led the discussion reminded us that gynaecologists make the most money by doing surgery and that the highest fee we can generate come from hysterectomy. With that in mind, we were urged to 'cultivate' our patients carefully. Initially care would require advice on contraception. Then, in the normal course of events, we would supervise their pregnancies and deliver their babies. Once a patient had completed her family, we were advised to plant the idea that she might some day need a hysterectomy. The culmination of our years of care would be the hysterectomy. With proper planning, our advisers suggested, each year of practice would produce a lucrative 'crop' of women ripe for hysterectomy.26 <BR/><BR/>26. West, ibid., pp. 28-29 <BR/><BR/>In my case, my sadistic ob/gyn, Richard C. Muckerman II (St. Louis), saw me through many years of ob/gyn "care" but instead of "planting the idea" of a hysterectomy, he handled a non-emergency situation as an emergency thereby not allowing me time to discover the horror of hysterectomy and ovary removal. The hospital, St. John's Mercy Medical Center, was complicit by allowing him to remove my healthy organs. <BR/><BR/>If he had "planted the idea" over time, I suspect that I would not have been duped and would still have my organs as I had no female problems until that fateful day. However, this type of tactic is equally sadistic and unconscionable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-4001710393718420192009-01-27T10:17:00.000-05:002009-01-27T10:17:00.000-05:00I want to comment on some of the conditions leadin...I want to comment on some of the conditions leading up to the recommendation of hysterectomy and what I feel is the gyn profession's long standing and deliberate abandonment of their "First, do no harm" oath.<BR/> First up is the number one reason for hysterectomy: fibroids...but the oft called "Father of Gynecology", Dr. Kelley, notes in hundred year old texts removing eight fibroids in thirty minutes-- before anthesia or antiseptic practice. He also notes removing huge ones as well--all the while merely returning the uterus to its' normal anatomy. So, why isn't that routinely done for us today?<BR/> Next up, the threat of cancer. Current commercials notwithstanding, the cervical/HPV cancer connection is about thirty years old. Did that ever cause the gyns to recommend HPV testing before the radical treatment of hysterectomy? No, nor to even warn about HPV--that is, before they, and big pharma, had a highly profitable--and, to me, questionable-- vaccine to administer! <BR/> Now we come to abnormal uterine bleeding, or AUB, which a 1977 South African study (that has since been duplicated) showed a 92.5 percent cure rate with the treatment of Vit A (not beta carotene). There are plenty of other blood issues that may lead to AUB, too. Sickle cell factors in black women, hormonal imbalances,clotting disorders,etc. there is a list that blood tests identify.. but how often are these simple tests shunned while dangerous and life altering surgeries are immediately put on the table? In reality and much to their patient's harm, removing the uterus may prove to only be removing a symptom while allowing an undiagnosed disease's unchecked progression. <BR/> Then there is endometriosis... which can be medically treated or surgically removed- all the while leaving the uterus and ovaries intact. Again, these are conservative courses of treatment that are all too often denied to women. <BR/> While I'm on the subject of endo, I want to note that endo's origination can be endometrial tissue that is surgically transplanted; however, since a surgeon would be implicit in that, endometrial surgical tranplantation is rarely acknowledged. But, women, have a care before allowing any surgical procedure...especially tube tying.<BR/> Something else, studies have shown an association with endo and tampons. Certainly, it does make sense that menstrual blood, containing endometrial tissue, if blocked, could backup the same course to the pelvis that the human egg travels down. Still, we haven't heard any gyn warnings. <BR/> And, since the list has mentioned abortions, I would have the group know that I have read where the most common cause of cervical incompetence is surgical trauma. Turns out that pulling the uterus down into the vagina to do an abortion, or a D&C, does not bode well for future pregnancies-- or for pelvic floor integrity.<BR/> My personal opinion is that it is no coincidence in that we are talking about the same group of doctors when we speak of hysterectomy and abortion. <BR/>This speciality tends to foster an arrogance that they are better than the rest of humanity and that the "inferior's" population needs curtailing. There is actually a book,"The Social Responsibility of OB/GYN," that elaborates on this and a gyn conference, at a top rated medical school, that was devoted to it.<BR/> Lastly, I will reference a speech once given by a leader of ACOG at the time. He stood at his podium to declare the uterus worthless beyond childbearing and publicly advocated for its' removal once childbearing was completed. The cruelety of his remarks, given the wealth of knowledge counter to his claims, is beyond comprehension to most. <BR/> Sadly, this man is far from alone. Before it was found to be politically incorrect, gyns used to put "useless uterus" down as the reason for having a hysterectomy. This, despite all their papers, articles, and texts that document what they then knew to the contrary. <BR/> And, no, I am not saying that every gyn has disregarded his Hippocratic oath, but, the surgical numbers for unnecessary hysterectomy and castration point to a profession that largely is now operating without any sort of moral compass. no "o"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-87375408202539922062009-01-26T20:54:00.000-05:002009-01-26T20:54:00.000-05:00To the post above about 250,000 women assaulted in...To the post above about 250,000 women assaulted in the U.S.<BR/><BR/>Yeah, women are safer on the streets than in the hospitals. At least when you get raped, you still have your sex organs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-58087264492374973102009-01-26T19:42:00.000-05:002009-01-26T19:42:00.000-05:00Thanks Hers, I understand. I do believe every bra...Thanks Hers, I understand. I do believe every branch of the government of America should be alerted to the epidemic sex organ amputation of the American woman by deceit though, every branch. This heinous epidemic legal assault must be stopped with no holds barred.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-19016376308782696082009-01-26T19:01:00.000-05:002009-01-26T19:01:00.000-05:00Approximately 250,000 women in the U.S. are sexual...Approximately 250,000 women in the U.S. are sexually assaulted every year; while approximately 650,000 women lose their sex organs by amputation from gynecologists every year.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-30928351258780185132009-01-25T09:21:00.000-05:002009-01-25T09:21:00.000-05:00Mattie,The States Attorneys General become involve...Mattie,<BR/><BR/>The States Attorneys General become involved in matters of criminal wrong doing.<BR/><BR/>Legally, unwarranted and unconsented hysterectomy are civil matters. <BR/><BR/>HERS is working toward changing the law to compel doctors to provide the short educational video "Female Anatomy: the Functions of the Female Organs to every woman before she is told to sign a hysterectomy consent form. Women who watch the video invariably choose not to undergo hysterectomy.<BR/><BR/>You can help in this effort to stop this from being done to another generation of women and girls by actively getting everyone you know to sign HERS petition at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/saynotilyouknow/HERS Foundationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08624611382874234485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-48456599977703867842009-01-25T09:17:00.000-05:002009-01-25T09:17:00.000-05:00Countrymidwife,Thanks so much for working with HER...Countrymidwife,<BR/><BR/>Thanks so much for working with HERS to help us achieve the absolute accuracy we strive for in all of our work. Bringing an error to our attention is greatly appreciated.HERS Foundationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08624611382874234485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-46596504023010189812009-01-25T00:20:00.000-05:002009-01-25T00:20:00.000-05:00With all due respect for your comprehensive effort...With all due respect for your comprehensive effort to disseminate knowledge and help women make informed choices about hysterectomy, I'd like to point out that you refered to Ashley Montagu as "she" and to "her book", <I>"The Natural Superiority of Women".</I> Dr. Montagu was indeed a man. I have been a supporter of HERS for ten years; I sincerely appreciate your work, but when you reference someone, it lends better credibility to the cause to show that you know your sources.Oak Grove Midwiferyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05193629957633519604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-42002853655905099412009-01-24T23:32:00.000-05:002009-01-24T23:32:00.000-05:00Where are the states' Attorney Generals in the hug...Where are the states' Attorney Generals in the huge scam of hysterectomy??<BR/>Having cocktails with wealthy medical doctors at the country club or hobnobbing in their social circle?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-1964983877230244852009-01-24T14:16:00.000-05:002009-01-24T14:16:00.000-05:00Normally a state's Attorney General will take acti...Normally a state's Attorney General will take action when there's a business scam. Where are the states' Attorney Generals in the huge scam of hysterectomy??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-74868082353602386462009-01-24T11:10:00.000-05:002009-01-24T11:10:00.000-05:00And, sadly, the medical boards that should be disc...And, sadly, the medical boards that should be disciplining these doctors usually condone their actions. Although I'm sure that's no surprise to anyone that's been victimized as we know that doctors maintain a "code of silence."<BR/><BR/>In my case, I'm sure it didn't help that the hospital campus has signs bearing his name.<BR/><BR/>I was actually told by several medical professionals (including an ob/gyn) within a couple years of my surgery that I was duped which I already knew. However, I was relieved to know that there are SOME medical professionals that will speak the truth. <BR/><BR/>Has anyone had a positive outcome from a complaint to their state's medical board or know of someone that has?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-42120878752339080572009-01-24T04:36:00.000-05:002009-01-24T04:36:00.000-05:00My hysterectomy wasn't necessary. I went to a doc...My hysterectomy wasn't necessary. I went to a doctor at 47 because I was stressed, wasn't sleeping well, and was having teary episodes. I needed time off from my busy job. I was asked if I still had periods and I said I did and that they were getting heavier. I was referred to a gyno who said that if I didn't have a hysterectomy I would need blood transfusions and could bleed to death. Unfortunately I trusted the doctor and did not seek a second opinion. I was given no information at all about the alternatives to hysterectomy. In my case as I found out later, I could have just put up with my periods and safely waited until the natural onset of menopause. When I complained that I had been manipulated into agreeing to an unnecessary hysterectomy and castration, I was prescribed anti depressants and told to get counselling. Some women say they feel better after a hysterectomy because they don't have periods anymore. I don't. I feel as if I aged 10 years. I have met dozens of women who have had hysterectomies and but only one who had to have one because she had cancer. All of the hysterectomies were paid for by private medical insurance. Thank you HERS for continuing to bring the real evidence into the hysterectomy debate. DOCTORS ARE PERFORMING TOO MANY UNNECESSARY HYSTERECTOMIES! Regards, Charmaine SaundersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com