Re: Military Medical Care

From: R. Daniel Braun (rBraun@IUNET.IUPUI.EDU)
Tue May 28 12:59:19 1996


The Gynecologic care of many of our civilian HMO's do not provide abortion services either. The military medical system was just the first managed care system. Anything you don't like about military medicine, you won't like about managed care.

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>>> Andrew Ross <aross@aecom.yu.edu> 05/28/96 11:49am >>>

On Tue, 28 May 1996 GlennRMark@aol.com wrote:

> As a military obstetrician I greatly resent the statement that " A > military hospital and a good birth experience would seem > to be conflicting issues". We provide the same type of care as the civilian > community, we just happen to be in the military.

While I cannot comment on Obstetric care, it should be noted that military gynecologic care does not include abortion service. During one of my residency interviews with a former Air Force Ob/Gyn I was told the story of the daughter of an enlisted man living at a remote base. She was diagnosed with an anencephalic fetus in the mid-trimester, and because of our government's decision that abortion rights don't apply to those served by military hospitals, and her families inability to afford the trip to a distant site to do the procedure, she had to carry this doomed fetus to term. I'm sure that was a pleasant birth experience.

Andrew Ross

Albert Einstein College of Medicine '96 !!! 9 more days !!! Thomas Jefferson University Residency in Ob/Gyn '00





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