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If I had any brains at all, I'd have scheduled a vasectomy for today.
It’s one of those deals that makes so much sense that I can’t believe I didn’t think of it. I mean seriously, when I was in corporate America, I always blew off work to watch the first two days of March Madness. Given that the weekend coincides with the second round, that meant that I could keep up with virtually every single game from the opening tip to the sweet 16.
And when you’re a big-time basketball junkie like yours truly, that’s not something to snub your nose at. But with all these kids running around, keeping abreast of the tourney isn’t as easy as calling in sick anymore. If I truly wanted to watch the first weekend of the NCAA tourney, I would have needed to pull out the big guns. Which is exactly what men far smarter than me all around the country are doing.
Parents in Oregon say a doctor botched a vasectomy, resulting in the birth of their son
To err is human, to forgive divine. That’s according to Alexander Pope, and definitely not according to a couple in Eugene, Ore., who are suing a doctor there for a botched vasectomy that resulted in the birth of their son.
The couple alleges that the doctor knew the man’s tubes were “thin and difficult to dissect,” and that complications were encountered during the surgery. The doctor, meanwhile, didn’t inform the couple of any problems, say the husband and wife. They are seeking $650,000 from the doctor and hospital board for part of the cost of the c-section to deliver the baby, plus the expense of rearing their child and his college tuition.
However, did the couple not sign any kind of waiver before the surgery acknowledging that 99.85 percent of vasectomies are successful, but .15 percent, or one to two women out of 1,000 will still get pregnant within the first year following their partner’s procedure?
Oops? Are you sure?
A survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that a significant number of surprise pregnancies should be all that big of a surprise.
Most mistimed or unwanted pregnancies, researchers found, happened not because of birth control failure, rather, in its absence. Or at the very least, after it was used incorrectly. Continue reading »
Finally a little proof of what women have always thought: guys have no follow through. So say the scientists who have determined half of the men who undergo a vasectomy never check in to ensure their swimmers have really stopped swimming.
Some fifty million men have had vasectomies in the U.S., according to the National Institutes of Health, but a new study posits at least forty-six percent of them never went back to the doc for an analysis of their semen. And you know what that means? Continue reading »
At twenty-one, Tarrah Seymour is pregnant with her second child and says she doesn’t want anymore. But doctors have told her she’s too young to decide for herself.
The married Canadian mom has been denied a tubal ligation by her doctors, who say they won’t even consider it until she’s twenty-five.
So much for “our bodies, ourselves.” Continue reading »
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