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Teenagers, modesty and contraceptionFrom: Bert Gold (bgold@itsa.ucsf.EDU)Wed Mar 20 11:51:25 1996
My high school principle keeled over and died of a heart-attack shortly after I left. In part I held myself responsible because I had given him one helluva headache around making contraceptives available to Seniors (or at least information about where to get them). He told me that I had 'impugned his dignity' by suggesting that he did not respect teenage rights to the first amendment. Oh well... That all happened twenty-five years ago, and we are now facing some of the same issues once again. The sage advice that I can provide on this issue, as a former teenager is, sexual activity needs to be discussed BEFORE it takes place. Doctors, this means you must bring it up if your patients don't. Just in the past week I have had inquiries from a young woman who lost a child to stillbirth when she was a teenager, concerning her needs for contraception. I referred the young woman in question to a genetic counselor for help in understanding the fetal demise and a referral to a gynecologist. There are many modest people out there. Please remember them and think of them kindly.
-- Bert Gold, Ph.D. "If only we stay with that principle University of California, San Francisco which counsels us always to hold School of Medicine to the difficult, then that which Department of Pediatrics now seems to us most foreign, will Program in Medical Genetics become what we most trust and (415) 476-2850 find most faithful." - R.M. Rilke
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