Author: fromskirtstoscrubs
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Episode 54 BEWARE Independent Women: The History of Psychiatric Asylums
Asylums always bring up images of horror. Whether in pop culture or fall haunted attractions, the stories around asylums are never good. Asylums were created as places to care for the mentally ill, but eventually turned into institutions that took advantage of a vulnerable population AND found ways to punish women for being too ambitious…
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Episode 53 Lowkey Influencer, Highkey Educator: The Life of Maria Montessori
Imagine a little kid at school sitting on a little rug playing with wooden building blocks to learn math, reading in a circle with their friends, sharing with their parents all the things they learned that day when they go home. That was the vision that Maria Montessori had when she started teaching young children…
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Episode 52 Cervical Cancer: A Story of Prevention
Cervical cancer is not like other cancers. This cancer is oh so special because it is caused by the virus HPV. Not only that, but there are multiple prevention methods in place to help lower women’s risk of developing this cancer!! But despite that, cervical cancer is the third most common cancer in women today.…
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Episode 51 Plucked, Shaved and Waxed Away: History of Body Hair Removal
Is shaving a regular part of your shower routine? Or maybe you wax, pluck, sugar, laser or just let it grow out! Regardless of what your relationship is with body hair, we’ve all got it and that means you’ve likely thought about whether or not you want to do something about it. This episode, we…
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Episode 50 Unique, Respected, and NOT Edible: The Placenta
Tik Tok is full of trends, including trends that include eating your placenta or having a lotus birth. But is this a trend that has existed throughout human history? The placenta is an extremely unique organ that humans have been fascinated with for centuries. From Pharaohs carrying their placentas into battle to hanging placentae in…
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Mini-Series 2.6. PNES: Moving and Shaking
You’ve probably heard of seizures, maybe even seen or experienced them in real life. But have you heard of PNES? Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures (PNES) are seizure-like events that occur due to psychological triggers. They are very distressing, especially for the folks experiencing them, and are sometimes elusive for medical providers to uncover. Join us this…
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Mini-Series 2.5. Fibromyalgia: Mysterious Pain
A pain that is constant, burning, stabbing, aching, crawling. You name it and it might describe it. The pain is mysterious to both the patient and the provider. Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain condition characterized by specific tender areas in the body and is WAY more common in women than men. Join us in this…
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Mini-Series 2.4. Borderline Personality Disorder: Toeing the Emotional Edge
Our personalities make us who we are, but in personality disorders like Borderline Personality Disorder, personalities can keep people from living their lives comfortably in our society. In BPD, a disorder commonly diagnosed in young adult and adolescent girls, words like dramatic, emotional and erratic get thrown around. But is this disorder really more common…
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Mini-Series 2.3. IBS: Hysterical Bowels
Does your bowel function haunt you? Do you use the bathroom way too much or simply not enough? Well, then this episode is probably about you! In this mini-episode, we are talking about irritable bowel syndrome! This is one of the most common gastroenterology disorders primarily affecting women. Not only that, but it has an…
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Mini-Series 2.2. Lupus: Mark of the Wolf
Is it a rash or a wolf bite? Apparently ancient physicians couldn’t tell…or at least they thought that the classic rash across the faces of patients with the commonly known condition Lupus, looked close enough to a wolf’s bite to name it after the Latin word for wolf! We’ll be discussing Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, or…
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