Butterfly Arose

In this episode of Butterfly Arose I read about and think through in some more depth the way doctors essentially pushed midwives to the margins of birth medicine. I talk about the different approaches of doctors and direct-entry midwives, and my own thoughts about the current situation. Get full access to WW II Baby Substack at wwiibaby.substack.com/subscribe

In this Episode of Butterfly Arose I complete my reporting on the 1982 edition of Paul Starr's book The Social Transformation of American Medicine. I include articles on how the system has evolved since he wrote his book and give my own thoughts on what might guide changes in the system. Get full access to WW II Baby Substack at wwiibaby.substack.com/subscribe

Episode 24 of Butterfly Arose where I talk about the history of medical care in America from the depression and up until 1981 when Paul Starr wrote the first edition. Get full access to WW II Baby Substack at wwiibaby.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode of Butterfly Arose I try to be honest about a theory or belief about how complex systems interact and grow becomes apparent as I learn from Paul Starr's book The Social Transformation of American Medicine. It is a way I hold myself accountable and invite my readers and listeners to think about what underlying theories or beliefs they carry with them as they go through life. And how...

For this Episode of Butterfly Arose I begin to look at the founding of America's health care system from the beginning of European immigration to the early 1930's. What were the major factors in this story? Get full access to WW II Baby Substack at wwiibaby.substack.com/subscribe

In this Episode of Butterfly Arose I begin to look at the larger system of medical care in the Unted States. I use my own experiences with to keep from getting too much into ethereal ideas and to hold myself accountable to humility as I acknowledge that my own experiences influence my ability to be objective. Get full access to WW II Baby Substack at wwiibaby.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode of Butterfly Arose I talk about an important way researchers turn qualitative information into quantitative information, and some of the challenges when we try to spread improvements throughout medical care. Get full access to WW II Baby Substack at wwiibaby.substack.com/subscribe

In the episode of Butterfly Arose, I use specific examples from my own experiences to show why patient stories are important to improving the quality of health care. I also use them to demonstrate that, while it would be wonderful to have lots of patient stories, in reality we often have to make do with what is available, and some initial thoughts on the gifts and challenges this approach brings t...

In this episode of Butterfly Arose, I challenge you to appreciate the world of complexity we uncover when we actively try to improve an organization.  Using the example of baking bread I show how complicated it can really get, and apply that seemingly simple example to changes being made in healthcare.  Get full access to WW II Baby Substack at wwiibaby.substack.com/subscribe

In Episode 16 of Butterfly Arose I used my personal experiences as a patient partner volunteer to talk about the value of Person and Family Centered Care from the patient and family perspective. But PFCC is a process of system improvement, and that means the staff of a health care organization must also be intimately involved. In this episode I'll talk about the third group, the Person and Family...

In Episode 14 of Butterfly Ar ose , I gave a surface introduction to what is called Person and Family Centered Care, or PFCC. In this episode I am going to go into more depth on this. I have been both a volunteer and an employee in PFCC programs, and I think I can provide a valuable perspective on it starting from those experiences. Get full access to WW II Baby Substack at wwiibaby.substack.com/s...

In the last two episodes of Butterfly Arose we looked at our medical system's gifts and challenges from the patient point of view. But this system is, indeed, complex. To gain a better understanding of it, we need to get a sense of what it looks like from the point of view of nurses, doctors and other practitioners. For this episode I draw from five books written by four people. They are: Finding...

In the last episode I talked about the experiences of four people; three who are living after treatment for cancer, and one who recovered from debilitating symptoms that were at first misdiagnosed as dementia. All four stories raised important questions about the role of patients in their own recovery from medical issues. We began to look at what patients are saying they need from themselves, and...

Just a note to listeners of my podcast. I recently figured out how to make both my audio and written versions easy to find in the same place. All links to books, articles and videos that I reference can now be found directly in the written versions of my podcasts rather than in a separate section as before. Click on the Bolded words in the transcript to follow those links. In the last two episodes...

This episode of Butterfly Arose continues learning from Doctor Danielle Ofri in her book When We Do Harm, A Doctor Confronts Medical Error. Where the last episode looked at procedural errors, this one looks at cognitive errors, the harm they can cause and what, if anything, can be done about them. You can find When We Do Harm by Danielle Ofri, MD HERE . Healthline article on multiple myeloma can b...

You can find When We Do Harm by Danielle Ofri, MD HERE . Different, Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist by Frans de Waal can be found HERE . T. A. Brennan, Incidence of Adverse Events and Negligence in Hospitalized Patients—Results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study 1 can be found here . To Err Is Human, published by the Institutes of Medicine, can be found HERE . An explanation of First...

As Nature Made Him; The Boy Who Was Raised As A Girl book by John Colapinto can be found HERE . The Man Who Invented Gender, Engaging the Ideas of John Money by Terry Goldie can be found HERE . You can find Nobody Needs to Know, A Memoir, by Pidgeon Pagonis HERE . LA Times article on Dr. Money can be found HERE . A long Salon article on Dr. Money can be found HERE . You can find Terry Goldie’s aca...

Wikipedia article on the term tomboy can be found HERE . As Nature Made Him; The Boy Who Was Raised As A Girl book by John Colapinto can be found HERE . Pacific Center for Sex and Society has a list of articles by Dr. Milton Diamond. It can be found HERE . The History of Clinical Psychology in Autobiography Volume II edited by C. Eugene Walker can be found HERE . The Man Who Invented Gender, Engag...

In this episode I talk about the case of a person whose life got caught up in a confluence of medical mistakes and errors that took place in a cultural space where sex and gender are surrounded by outdated belief systems. As Nature Made Him; The Boy Who Was Raised As A Girl book by John Colapinto can be found HERE . A National Library of Medicine article on Phimosis can be found HERE . Fixing Sex...

You can find the book Fixing Sex by Katrina Karkazis HERE . Get full access to WW II Baby Substack at wwiibaby.substack.com/subscribe

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You can find the book Nobody Needs to Know, A Memoir by Pidgeon Pagonis HERE . Get full access to WW II Baby Substack at wwiibaby.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode I talk about Frans de Waals research into sex and sexuality among nonhuman animals to help us understand ourselves. Get full access to WW II Baby Substack at wwiibaby.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode I continue talking about what I am learning from the book Different, Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist, by Frans de Waal. It includes thoughts on how we sometimes don't see what is alive in the real world and how that can create errors in our thoeries or beiefs. I also talk aboout a female chmpanzee, Donna, whose life transgresses dualistic ideas about sex and gender. Get...

The first of a series of episodes on biology and gender. Where does our gender identity come from and what is it? Get full access to WW II Baby Substack at wwiibaby.substack.com/subscribe