Have Young Adults Given Up their Medical Privacy for Free or Low-Cost Insurance?

Posted August 15, 2016 by Stacy Bolzenius

The high cost of health insurance made it necessary for young adults to fight for the ability to stay on their parent’s policies past the age of 18. Their request was granted when the Affordable Care Act was enacted, allowing young adults to continue coverage under their parents’ coverage umbrella until the age of 26, even if the adult child marries or moves out on their own. Sounds great, right? Although it’s great that more young people are getting affordable health Continue reading…

Breaking the Ice: How to Ask Patients about their Sexual Health

Posted August 1, 2016 by Stacy Bolzenius

Today’s television shows and movies may be full of sexually explicit jokes and dramatic storylines, but that doesn’t mean that patients are any more comfortable discussing their personal sex lives with doctors. Good OB/GYNs often make the mistake of skirting around the sexual history questions because they know how uncomfortable it can be for a woman to open up about something so personal to an authority figure. Yet failing to ask the difficult questions can leave a patient suffering in Continue reading…