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Doctors can perform C-section if woman loses mental capacity, judge rules
Ruling comes despite woman, who has bipolar disorder, saying she does not want procedureA judge has given doctors permission to perform a caesarean section on a woman with mental health problems if she becomes agitated during labour and loses the capacity to make decisions about how her baby should be... -
Not the Booker: Please Read This Leaflet Carefully by Karen Havelin review – an angry story of pain
This intense study of endometriosis, its agonies and its neglect by medical science, is very powerful – and quite repetitive“Endometriosis is a bitch,” a gynaecological surgeon informs Laura, the narrator of Please Read This Leaflet Carefully. By the time he does, we already know as much. Laura has told us...