Endometriosis Is Progressive
It is estimated that in the United States 11 percent of women ages 15-44 have endometriosis. It is especially common among women in their 30s and 40s, and estim...
Author: dhaugen
Men Get Postpartum Depression Too
Postpartum depression (PPD) in general is under-diagnosed and under served, but women at least have the Edinburg Postnatal Depression Scale to measure postpartu...
Should You Consider Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) in Menopause?
Changes Brought About by Menopause With age, a woman’s ovaries begin to lose their ability to make estrogen in the outside layer of the ovary (cortex). As menop...
Expertise in Medical Care
The novice-to-expert yellow brick road has been examined form many perspectives. One of the many valuable insights I learned studying under Linda Flower and Joh...
Are You Really Safe, or Just Feeling Safe?
In Cynthia Gabriel’s book, Natural Hospital Birth: The Best of Both Worlds, she devoted a whole chapter to feeling safe in pregnancy and delivery. As a doula, h...
UTIs and Antibiotic Stewardship
I’m a 73-year old OB-GYN who started medical school 48 years ago in 1973. Currently I am the Chief of Staff at four nursing homes and also at the hospital assoc...
Interview with the Powell Quadruplets
Dr. Lindemann's video is about maternal and mortality at a time when maternal deaths in the United States have increased at an alarming rate. The good news i...
Monitoring Blood Oxygen Levels Without a Pulse Oximeter
A few weeks ago Dr. Lindemann created a video to suggest how people could monitor their blood oxygen levels without waiting until they were short of breath befo...
Simple Ways to Check for Symptoms of COVID-19
This presentation was designed originally for pregnant women, but the guidelines here can be helpful to everybody during these times. It is not intended to repl...
What’s Actually Managed in Managed Care
Whenever I see or hear the term managed care, I cringe. Health maintenance organizations (HMOs), insurance companies, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), and...