Baby Girl

Another aspect of family history that doctors rarely take into account is what I think of as the culture of illness in which a person grows up. I’ve had patients whose childhoods were overshadowed by their parents’ extreme anxiety about illness and others whose illnesses were ignored, sometimes to the point of neglect. These early experiences can’t

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We have become convinced that if we do this any other way, we will endanger the children we are bringing into the world—that we will do the ultimate disservice and be ultimately irresponsible to our offspring. So we mutely accept the advice of the Almighty Doctor and his white-coated staff, and, consequently, we endure an extremely high “complicati

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