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>has the risk of taking the PC4 been
greater than the risk of a termination or allowing an unwanted pregnancy
to go to term?
Why medicalise a social problem?
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The risk of termination is small and is within hospital confines (private
or NHS) and will, more than likely, be an experience to be tried once and
not repeated too often. The risk of ad-lib PC4 is death by ectopic,
sterilisation, severe migraine attacks, infarction, DVT, stroke etc etc.
None of these may occur on the first occasion, so there's a second occasion
and a third until BINGO!
PC4 costs far less than a month's Durex and if it is available OTC or P
then which will be chosen? Don't kid yourself that 30 seconds waffle in a
crowded chemists shop will help or that the leaflet will be read closely or
that multiple chemists shops won't be used to obvert the dispensing
records. Anyway, chemists possibly do too much prescribing already - and
that is what is being suggested when it comes down to it. As the NHS
maxim goes "Prescribing and dispensing, each to those best trained for it"
to paraphrase clumsily !
That's why PC4 is "medicalised", so let's turn the phrase on its head:
"Why trivialise a serious medical problem?"
Cheers
David
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