Cervical Awareness Month Series
A New Year: The perfect time to learn about the cervix by Amaryllis Sánchez Wohlever, MD January 31, 2018 Did you know that January is #CervicalHealthMonth? To raise awareness of this hidden but important structure, we continue our series on cervical...
Meet the FACTS Team
A Physician Transformed through Knowledge of FABMs by Amaryllis Sánchez Wohlever, MD January 10, 2018 Ten years into my career as a family physician I joined a medical practice that changed my life. During the interview, I learned that they taught...
A short blog survey
We're working hard in 2018 to make this blog a better resource for you and your patients. In order to do that it would be incredibly helpful to know how you're using the blog thus far. Could you take this anonymous short survey to give us...
Use of Fertility Awareness (NFP) After Early Pregnancy Loss
December, 15, 2017 by Richard Fehring, RN Early pregnancy loss can be defined as a loss of pregnancy within the first trimester of pregnancy or 13 weeks from the last menses (American Academy of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2015). Others define...
Assessing Medical Student Knowledge of Fertility Awareness-Based Methods – A Review
A recent study published in the Journal of Frontiers in Medicine highlights how medical students and physicians lack adequate knowledge when it comes to fertility awareness based methods (FABMs) for family planning. Because most medical schools don’t include a specified curriculum and/or advanced…
Diagnosing Endometriosis – A Patient Experience
I still remember sitting in that doctor’s office, looking downward at the linoleum floor. I had described my symptoms: weeks of constant bleeding, cramps that left me writhing in pain—pain so severe it induced vomiting, month after month. The doctor told me confidently, “You don’t have endometriosis.” I know…