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The Fight to Treat Patients at Catholic Hospitals

Read More at Rewire News Group This piece is part of a Special Edition, which you can see here. As an OB-GYN resident at a major Catholic hospital in Chicago from 2005 to 2009, Dr. Maryam Guiahi was not only forbidden from providing patients with abortions, birth control, or tubal ligations herself—she was also discouraged from informing patients that in her best medical judgment, they should seek care elsewhere. “We had to wait until they got sick,” Guiahi, now a physician-researcher practicing in California, told Rewire News Group about how she would have to send patients miscarrying desired pregnancies home to wait until they developed potentially life-threatening complications. Only then could she intervene. Her patients were mostly low-income women on public assistance. While her hospital would provide abortion care or sterilization under certain circumstances, she had to apply through her…

Arguing Can Be Positive for Your Relationship—Here Are 7 Tips for How To Fight Fairly

Read More at Well+Good The popular refrain, “it’s not what you say, but how you say it” describes the importance of delivery and tone for effective communication in all relationships, and it extends to the “right” way to argue in romantic partnerships. That is, it’s not necessarily what you’re fighting about (or even that you’re fighting at all) that matters so much as how you’re fighting. And embracing key therapist-backed guidelines around how to fight fairly in a relationship may make arguments less taxing to resolve, help deepen your connection, and improve the quality of your relationship for the long haul. To reiterate, the presence of disagreements isn’t an issue; even the strongest relationships will be rocked by arguments—maybe even lots of ‘em. In fact, according to research conducted by The Gottman Institute, which researches relationships, the biggest predictor of…