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skdadl
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posted 23 May 2005 12:22 PM
There are a lot of things that doctors aren't taught to deal with in the first place unless they go on to specialize, and then there are problems of professional attitude that have been so hard to turn around. I do believe that the first and greatest practical success of the women's movement of the late sixties / early seventies was our surprisingly successful rebellion against conventional medical attitudes to all patients but to women especially. Here is a link to the classic, Our Bodies Ourselves, by the Boston Women's Collective, first published in 1970 and still going strong. Yay! Feminist medical-students' groups would be a great idea, and I would be surprised, in fact, if there weren't some going. But we need to support advocacy groups working from the outside too. Doctors can become more and more enlightened -- we hope that's happening; we can sometimes detect that it is happening -- but doctors are always going to be ... doctors. They are working right now in the context of a medical system that runs underfunded, inadequate, pressured. A lot of what they do is done to save themselves, and one can understand that, except ... No one is ever going to grasp the interests of a vulnerable person or group as firmly as will that person or group or their advocates. That is the hard truth. It's great to talk about improving medical training, but we have to do more: we have to tell the doctors what we need from them. That's true for everyone, but especially for members of the most vulnerable groups: children, women, the poor, the elderly. That said: it was my understanding that there are now a few medical schools in Canada that have become renowned for enlightened and open training programs -- McMaster is the name that springs to mind. Anyone know more about specific schools?
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lagatta
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posted 23 May 2005 01:41 PM
Don't forget nurses and nursing students! I've been translating stuff about Aboriginal issues, here is the website of the Aboriginal Nurses Association: http://www.anac.on.ca/ Many of these nurses work in dispensaries in small communities and have a great deal of responsibility - they often deal with abuse and family violence issues. Obviously I can't post work done for clients, but soon I'll have a link to a website relating to working for more training and concern about abuse issues (in Aboriginal communities and against Aboriginal women) and I guarantee it will be interesting!
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M.J.
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posted 04 June 2005 03:29 PM
London, Ontario women’s organizations worked together to introduce a Routine Universal Comprehensive Screening (RUCS) Protocol to be used in hospitals and other health contexts, not just G.P.’s in annual physical exams. The RUCS Protocol is for use by health professionals to regularly ask women questions as part of their routine that encourage abused women to divulge their past or current situations, allowing them to receive information, support, and proper care. The Health task force of the Middlesex-London health unit final report of the task force came out in 2000 recommending it to medical personnel, which is referenced as follows: Ministry of Public Safety and Security Routine Comprehensive Screening (RUCS) Protocol, London ON: Middlesex-London Health Unit. Subsequently, London’s Women’s Mental Health and Addiction Research Coalition (WMHAARC) worked to cast a wider net of those to use the RUCS protocol, and worked with mental health and addiction agencies to do screening. Meantime, other regions’ health units and hospitals are working toward or are already doing the screening. Here’s some websites that may be helpful. The Ontario Public Health Association is at www.opha.on.ca I got the 27 page, pdf format of a position paper and resolutions adopted by the OPHA called Public Health and Violence Prevention: Maintaining the Momentum at www.cpha.ca/english/policy/pstatem/ophaviol/violenceprevention Public Health and Epidemiology Report Ontario (PHERO) Pdf report April 30, 2003 Vol. 14, No. 4, http://www.health.gov.on.ca “Patterns of Screening for Woman Abuse: Healthy Babies, Healthy Children Program”, Middlesex-London Health Unit, PHRED Program http://www.ahu.on.ca/content/news/details.asp?ID=33 The Health Effects of Woman Abuse Press Release September 5, 2003 by the Algoma Health Unit Stopping Woman Abuse: The role of the Health Care Provider Addressing doctors, nurses, dentists, chiropractors, massage therapists, mental health/addictions workers and other regulated Health Care Professionals living in Algoma (Elliot Lake, Blind River, Wawa, Sault Ste. Marie) http://www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/vaw/ “Violence against women: Testing the effectiveness of screening”, started March 2003, funded by Ontario Women’s Health Council, headquartered at the Offord Centre for Child Studies, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University. http://www.region.waterloo.on.ca/web/Region Region of Waterloo Report PH-04-011 Public Health Family and Community Resources memo to Chair Jane Brewer and Members of the Community Services Committee March 9, 2004 Subject: Early Child Development projects Hope this is helpful to those into following this one up in detail
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