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It’s our birthday! Corbin & Katee are doctors now! But all is not so happy with the world…

A few weeks ago, Iowa became the most restrictive state in the nation for a woman’s right to choose. Fortunately, South Carolina didn’t. And on May 25th, Irish citizens will be voting on whether or not to repeal the 8th amendment to their constitution. Choosing to keep the amendment would continue to equate the life of a pregnant person with the life of the fetus causing patients who desire termination to leave their home country for care. Choosing to repeal the amendment would allow abortion to be legal in Ireland for the first time ever. Join the newly graduated doctors as we discuss the current state of abortion in the world.

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Fallopian Files:

Corbin – The Let Down – Netflix series

Katee – Sawbones – Legends of the Hidden Breast

Dave – Fringe – TV series

References:

http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/health/university-of-iowa-fears-impact-of-heartbeat-bill-20180401

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/12/kim-reynolds-iowa-abortion-ban-fetal-heartbeat-conservative-faith-freedom-coalition/602946002/

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/south-carolina-abortion-ban-bill-dies-late-night-54930380

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendment_of_the_Constitution_of_Ireland

http://www.trappeddocumentary.com/

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This week on the podcast Katee, Corbin, and Dave welcome another guest! This week on the Vagibinds is Rose Olson, she is a fourth year medical student and research intern at the WHO. She recently published a paper that reviewed the scientic evidence for so called “virginity testing,” a practice in many countries throughout the world of using a physical exam to inspect a woman or girls hymen to determine whether she is a “virgin” or not. Spoiler: it’s not scientifically sound. We talk about the cultural and societal implication of this exam, the control in which it exerts over women and their bodies, as well as what the word virginity even means.

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References:

Read Rose’s article here

Oh look, she was on Buzzfeed

Five women podcast from This American Life

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This week the Katee, Corbin, and Dave chat about two papers which discuss migrant women’s health outcomes and the experiences of Somali refugee mother’s birth experiences in Norway and Minnesota. We talk about the intersection of culture and health and how values influence health systems.

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References:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29566259

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19539929

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A few months ago, a listener named Amy Dean wrote in after our maternal mortality episode to tell us her story. We asked her to join us and share her experience and current advocacy efforts for other patients like her. We are so happy she called in and chatted with us!

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Fallopian Files:

Corbin – Radio Ambulante

Katee – Sawbones – Secret life of doctors

Dave – Terry Gross’ interview with Madeline Albright

Amy – NPR’s Lost Mothers series

References:

Maternal Health Advocates Facebook Group

Amy’s article

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We had a lovely listener write to us with a question: “Why do periods start to sync together when living with other girls?” So we decided to investigate. Join the Vagibonds as we uncover the answer to this question and dive in to the nature of scientific study and research bias.

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Fallopian Files:

Corbin – Caring Bridge

Katee – Sawbones

Dave – Mr. Pringle & all band teachers

References:

Guinea Worm Story

Menstrual Synchrony Wikipedia

Menstrual Synchrony Huffington Post

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This week Katee, Corbin, And Dave talk about the UN’s Millennium Devlopment Goals. These are eight goals that were created from a ten year long study on world poverty. These goals were aimed to drastically reduce worl poverty bu 2015. For the Vagibonds two goals were especially signifcant: the goal to increase gender equality and decrease maternal mortality. Join us as we talk about gender equality and decreased maternal mortality as effective ways to reduce poverty and improve the lives of individuals in communities across the world!

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References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Development_Goals

http://www.who.int/topics/millennium_development_goals/about/en/

http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration/ares552e.pdf

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The World Health Organization just released new guidelines on the standard of care for the birthing process. We talk about ’em!

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References:

NPR Articles about the guidelines

The actual guidelines

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This week Corbin talks about her experience in Sweden. The group talks about differences in healthcare between the US and Sweden, education, training, work hours. And of course we ask the eternal question: if a medical student lives in Sweden, does she/he still complain??

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