Doctors told to include contraceptive counselling in every adolescent consultation
by Xavier Symons | 29 Jul 2017 |
The guidance, published by ACOG’s Committee on Adolescent Health Care, recommends that doctors discuss effective contraception methods with patients as young as 13 and at the very first visit.
The document discusses the need to allow adolescents privacy from their parents, and doctors are instructed to ensure patient confidentiality to the extent allowed by State law.
"Contraception should be a conversation with patients as early as appropriate," Dr. Karen R. Gerancher, a member of the committee, said in a statement. "When we're able to reach patients before they become sexually active, or early on in their sexually active life, we empower them to take control of their reproductive health, and prevent sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancies that could permanently impact the future they've envisioned for themselves."
| Saturday, July 29, 2017 | BioEdge
We're back! And although the northern hemisphere summer is normally a slow-news season, bioethics has been on the front page of world newspapers.
The drama of the dying British baby Charlie Gard, his loving parents, the doctors at Great Ormond Street hospital in central London, and the English law has captured the imagination of people everywhere.
To be honest, I am not sure whose "side" I should be on. Parents should normally make healthcare decisions for their children.
But there are cases in which their choices are plainly wrong -- as a Swedish doctor suggests below in his version of the mysterious resdignation syndrome among refugee children -- and the advice of doctors should be heeded.
Which was the case here? We'd love to hear from you.
Michael Cook
Editor
BioEdge
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Doctors told to include contraceptive counselling in every adolescent consultation
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