Kim Alexander
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 6/13/2024
A refresher on colon health
Getting into the guts of what's normal, what's a red flag and which beverages are the most tolerable options when prepping for a colonoscopy. - 5/31/2024
The fear of vaginal estrogen
We try to create processes in the office to help prevent common bottlenecks that affect access to care for our patients. The one pattern that I can’t seem to mitigate is the fear of vaginal estrogen. - 1/31/2024
Agony is optional: An argument for muting menstruation for many women
Women have about 400 periods in their lifetime—but the many medical routes to avoiding them and their related pain are not the risky or unnatural propositions some patients might believe them to be. - 1/9/2024
A lot of your patients probably don’t realize they could benefit from an HPV vaccine
I work in cervical cancer screening. My waiting room is always full. It shouldn’t be that way. - 12/7/2023
Game changer: Ditching paps for HPV testing
As changes to how we screen for human papillomavirus are on the horizon, some awkward questions from patients may be heading your way. - 11/3/2023
Beyond ‘no means no’: Creating a culture of consent
Keep these tools in mind when considering the complicated nature of consent. - 9/28/2023
“Protecting children”
A colleague of mine was worried that the curriculum teaches about sexual orientation, because “he doesn’t believe in that.” - 9/7/2023
How best to think about herpes
About one in six people have genital herpes, and most of them have no idea. - 8/11/2023
Non-monogamous patients: From infidelity to polycules
I sometimes joke that my children’s university tuition has been paid by midlife relationship instability because I see so many people in their forties and fifties who test HPV positive. - 7/7/2023
Patients heading into a hedonistic summer? A refresh on STI and pregnancy prevention
Human beings are generally terrible at abstinence, so a harm-reduction approach is our best bet for keeping our patients safer. If you don’t ask the questions, you’ll never know who needs to hear the answers.
