Re: The curmudgeon is back!
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Wed Dec 26 12:40:29 2007
Why not "induced abortion?" This so-called political connotation began
long before your hiatus, Peter.
Art
At Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Richard Chudacoff wrote:
>
>Good to have you back, Peter. I agree, since abortion is any loss less than
>20 weeks, regardless of cause.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Peter V.
>Weston, M.D.
>Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 9:09 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
>Subject: The curmudgeon is back!
>
>After many years of travel I am now land based and have returned to the
>forum. To my former students and colleagues - warm greetings.
>
>I am now back to teaching as a volunteer faculty at University of Texas
>Medical School in Houston in their Problem Based Learning course. One
>of the students had the gall to accuse me of being too chalenging!
>
>Back to more important things - I became incensed that in the November
>2007 Green Journal was an article about medical abortion and clostridial
>shock and an editorial with the word abortion in the title. The Journal
>has accepted my letter to the editor stating that, because of the
>political connotation, the word "abortion" should not be used by medical
>professionals. I recommended that instead authors should use
>"termination of pregnancy."
>
>I would appreciate comments by members of the forum.
>
>Peter V. Weston, M.D.
>
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art fougner, md
"May The Wings of Liberty Never Lose a Feather." - Jack Burton
