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Placentas are cool. They’re the interface between baby and mother. They are manufactured on demand, and disposed of when they’re not needed anymore. Unlike other organs you can eat them even if they’re from a human, if that’s how you roll, and most will just label you a bit weird and not a cannibal. Dr. Katee has the scoop on this ‘disc-shaped’ organ. Plus we process the future of Planned Parenthood after it fires its new CEO, and Fallopian Files.
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Sometimes, babies get stuck on their trip along the birth canal. We’ve covered breech births in a previous episode, but another cause is shoulder dystocia–the baby’s shoulder gets caught on the front of the mothers pelvis. It’s a true obstetric emergency, but it’s one that Drs. Katee and Corbin have rehearsed and practiced for.
Drs. Corbin and Katee and their mansplainer Dave have taken a couple months off to get their lives together. But they’re back to drop some knowledge about PPROM (Preterm premature rupture of the membranes).
Drs. Corbin and Katee have been promising an episode on emergency contraception, and here it is! Katee takes us through the options for emergency contraception, what emergency contraception is and what it isn’t, the side effects, and why–if you’re sexually active and don’t want to get pregnant–it’s a good idea to have it on hand even if you’re already using contraception. Plus, listener Corbin (awesome name, btw) writes in to ask what she can do while she is in medical school to be competitive for a residency in OG/Gyn.
We got a lovely email from listener Kristin, a first-year medical student who’s trying to decide between OB/Gyn and Family Medicine. So it’s pretty lucky that Dr. Katie is married to a family med doc, Dr. Adam Verhoef. The three docs discuss the areas of overlap, the differences, and the benefits to each specialty as they see them. And Dave discusses an article that suggests we should 
Dr. Katee, inspired by a 
