Just found this new blog, Sweetening the Pill, which is all about spreading the bad news of the BCP, and empowering women to find something better.
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I just read this case that came out of the Appellate Court of Connecticut: A 45 year old woman experiencing menopausal symptoms went to see her doctor. The doctor put her on hormonal birth control. One month later, the woman was experiencing a strange leg pain and died of a blood clot shortly thereafter. The appellate court remanded for a new trial, finding that a reasonable jury could find that that the doctor’s failure to warn this woman of the risks associated with birth control contributed to her death. See Curran v. Kroll 118 Conn. App. 401 (Dec. 15, 2009). The court explained how knowledge of the serious side effects could have saved this woman’s life because she might have sought more immediate medical care.
So, cheers to those spreading the word about the pill’s negative side effects! Apparently, this knowledge can save lives.
That’s insane, but unfortunately all too common. How would I find details on the case? Thanks for the support, Lauren! Spreading news about negative side effects far too often overlooked through lack of knowledge, bad decision making, and in the worst cases, greed, is an uphill battle. Interesting story I’m working on: a friend just sent me this MSN article talking up the pill, which to me seemed to be a thinly veiled attempt at correcting the anti-Pill PR out in the last couple months (the bone mass studies, stories about women being fed up pub’d in the MSM, etc.). To lend cred to the article, they had a med consultant for the article. He works at a medical college, so he must be really objective and scientific and smart, right? Something slightly suspicious there, I thought. Sure enough, after some minimal online research, this doc is a total cheerleader for the Pill, mistaken called by some an “expert” on contraception. I dug a little more, and found out that not only is he a stockholder in contraceptive makers, has done research funded by contraceptive makers, but also has served as adviser contraceptive companies. What.
Jess, here is a link to the full judicial opinion, published in the Connecticut Law Journal last month: http://www.jud.ct.gov/external/supapp/Cases/AROap/AP118/118AP41.pdf.
An “expert” whose bank account is beholden to the contraception companies? Sounds like good objective journalism to me!
Thanks for the link. Glad you think there’s a conflict of interest there with Doc Pill-Moneybags!