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Britney Spears Calls For An End To Her Conservatorship, Says She Isn't Allowed To Marry And Have Kid
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(Feminism)
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... her meds immediately from a prescription she said she was on for five years to lithium. “I felt drunk,” Spears said. The doctor allegedly had six nurses watching over her while she was on a drug she didn’t ...
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Created on 24 June 2021
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Self-Advocacy Might Have Saved Influencer Grace F. Victory's Life From A System Working Against He
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(Entertainment)
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... about the coronavirus, specifically as it impacts folks who are pregnant, was relatively new.
Fortunately, Victory’s case is one in which her doctors and nurses were highly responsive to her. As a person ...
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Created on 18 March 2021
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10 Timely, Empowering Books to Read During Women's History Mont
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(Books)
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... patients as doctors and nurses through the global pandemic. In honor of these women and others, we’ve rounded up a list of reads that celebrate medical pioneers, wartime heroes, superheroes, “spinsters,” ...
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Created on 08 March 2021
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Death of indigenous woman who live-streamed abuse by med staff as she lay dying reignites fight for "No More Stolen Sisters
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(Feminism)
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... died. The nurses had administered a high dose of morphine, despite Echaquan's concerns that she would have an adverse reaction. Echaquan’s husband, Carol Dubé, and the school director from the Atikamekw ...
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Created on 09 October 2020
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Death and the Maidens: How Previous Pandemics Helped Make the World a Better Place for Women
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(Feminism)
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... war nurses working at the Camp Sherman Base Hospital, circa 1919
As the confluence of war casualties and pandemic illnesses increased America’s need for skilled medical professionals, thousands of women ...
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Created on 29 September 2020
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Meet Some Of TIME100's Most Influential Women of 202
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(Feminism)
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... climate crisis and Bonnie Castillo, the leader of National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association who has fought for nurses' rights throughout the pandemic.
The last two sections of the ...
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Created on 23 September 2020
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High Number of Women in Ice Custody Are Allegedly Being Subjected To Hysterectomies
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(Feminism)
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... for herself and other nurses, stating, "We've questioned among ourselves like goodness he's taking everybody's stuff out…That's his specialty, he's the uterus collector. I know that's ugly…is he collecting these ...
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Created on 15 September 2020
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What Florence Nightingale Can Still Teach Us 200 Years After
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(Feminism)
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Even when we are not in the midst of a pandemic, it is easy to acknowledge nurses are heroes. But the profession didn’t always inspire respect from the masses. So yesterday, on International Nurse’s ...
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Created on 12 May 2020
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“Courage Is Beautiful”: Dove’s New Campaign Brings Awareness to Healthcare Workers During COVID-19
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(Living)
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... front lines to help treat COVID-19 patients. The ad shows the faces of nurses and doctors with their faces marked by the masks they have to wear all day, every day.
“There was a feeling we got that courage ...
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Created on 27 April 2020
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Corona is Showing People’s True Colors: Canadian Nurse Evicted from Apartment Because of “Safety Concerns”
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(General)
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... for the young nurse. And, a spokesperson with Airbnb said the short-term online rental platform is offering free or cheaper accommodation for doctors, nurses, and health-care workers on the front-line ...
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Created on 08 April 2020
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Lady Gaga Is Doing The Most When It Comes to Celebrities and COVID-19
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(Entertainment)
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... ER doctors and nurses who are sleeping in cars to make sure they don't infect their families or their patients," Gaga stated. "What you're doing is putting yourselves in harm's way to help the world, and we ...
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Created on 08 April 2020
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Surprise! New Study Shows Men Aren’t Taking Coronavirus As Seriously As Women Are
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(Living)
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... and experience more serious symptoms than women. We all have to take the proper steps to slow the spread of COVID-19 in order to protect the most vulnerable and the doctors, nurses, and other brave essential ...
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Created on 27 March 2020
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‘Vagina Monologues’ Playwright, Eve Ensler, Endorses Bernie Sanders In Powerful Speech
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(Feminism)
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... of activists endorsing Sanders.
In her speech, the writer also went on to highlight the #NursesForBernie movement. She referred to how her nurses were the real heros when she was battling stage 3-4 uterine ...
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Created on 04 March 2020
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Trump's Conscience Rule Blocked Because It's Dumb as He
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(Feminism)
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... their conscience? What a genius idea for a movie villain.
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100 Indigenous Women Are Suing The Canadian Government Over Forced Sterilization
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(Feminism)
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... coercive medical experiences, which were eerily similar. After the birth of her seventh child in 2010, Pelletier signed an agreement to undergo tubal ligation, but only after multiple nurses pressured ...
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Created on 16 September 2019
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Sexism in Psych Wards: The Gendered Legacy of “Girl, Interrupted”
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(Feminism)
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... legs. It is in the distant characterization of the outside world, where student nurses “were living out lives we might have been living, if we hadn’t been occupied with being mental patients. They shared ...
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Created on 26 July 2019
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Woman Who Was Shackled During Labor Earns $610,000 from City of New York
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(Feminism)
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... Center “with metal cuffs on her wrists and heavy shackles on her feet, binding her legs together at the ankles." Doctors and nurses asked the police to remove these shackles, citing health concerns for ...
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Created on 09 July 2019
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New York Becomes First City To Finance Abortion, Allotting $250K For Low-Income And Out-Of-Town Women
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(Feminism)
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... to include nurses and physician’s assistants in Maine and Illinois, according to ThinkProgress. New York and Vermont, as reported in The Hill, have both passed bills with language protecting the right ...
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Created on 17 June 2019
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This Woman Was Forced To Give Birth Alone In Jail Cell
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(General)
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... and two nurses attended to Jackson and her child (both of whom survived) after the delivery.
Jackson’s traumatic experience is yet another in a long line of systematic abuse perpetrated by the U.S. prison ...
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Created on 10 May 2019
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Women In Medicine Are Bringing Time’s Up To The Healthcare Industry
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(Feminism)
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... job. In a study by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, 33% of nurses have experienced physical violence and bullying. The National Academics of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine told InStyle ...
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Created on 28 February 2019
