I know that every profession has them…
but these trade-journals of modern medicine have always made me wonder about the sanity of my once-chosen profession…

How can any physician not blush when reading a headline like this:

"Long-acting contraception linked to fewer repeat abortions"
“Women who use long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), especially intrauterine devices (IUDs), are significantly less likely have a repeat abortion, New Zealand researchers report.”

For a gynecologist, this reads like : “study confirms, having intercourse (SEX) causes pregnancy (INTRAUTERINE BABIES or IUBs).”

Of course there’s likely to be some vaguely reasonable explanation for this New Zealand study, but it’s really just priceless comedy material…
I could never read these silly headlines of Contemporary Ob/Gyn without cracking up…
unfortunately though, its NOT The Onion…
these guys mean Business!
pharmaceutical business, that is…

maybe the pharmaceutical advertisers who pay for these headlines think they sound professional…
it’s either that or they consider the intelligence level of the average physician to be in the 3rd grade range…

while it’s probably the former, I have to be honest…reading some of the on-line discussions other physicians have in a professional forum called Physician Connect makes me wonder that perhaps instead of skipping a grade or two, many of them might have skipped out on a few…