Sex and Meaning

Another reason for all of us to learn to be better consumers in our health care. Unfortunately, government associated agencies may not those that we rely on. Too much money has gone behind the “curtain” to uphold moralistic agendas…at the expense of all of us. Read on…

“Dr. Shaber tries hard to separate fact from fiction because, she says, “rumor and hearsay can start to seem real.” In the past, she’d sometimes refer patients to government websites and printed fact sheets, or rely on those outlets to help create her own materials. Not anymore. “As a physician, I can no longer trust government sources,” says Dr. Shaber. She is not a political activist or a conspiracy theorist; in addition to her own practice, she’s Kaiser Permanente’s director of women’s health services for northern California and head of the HMO’s Women’s Health Research Institute. Yet this decidedly mainstream doctor and administrator says, “I no longer trust FDA decisions or materials generated [by the government]. Ten years ago, I would not have had to scrutinize government information. Now I don’t feel comfortable giving it to my patients.”

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 This month of April is National Sexual Assault Awareness month. As part of this, April 19th, is International Denim Day. We urge ALL OF YOU to wear your blues tomorrow to show solidarity with the outrage of a court decision in Italy a couple years ago where a man was found not guilty of a rape of a woman, despite other evidence, on the basis that the woman was wearing tight jeans (or, as many call, DENIM) and, therefore, could not pull them off to rape the woman. There are events through out the U.S.A. commemorating this outrage so check your local event listings, especially with your local RAPE CRISIS CENTER, to join in. At least, where BLUE JEANS and let others know why!