The Hysterectomy of Educational Resources & amp; Services (HERS) The Foundation is an independent nonprofit international health education advocacy organization [1] [2]. The stated mission of the organization is to provide women with a greater voice in the health care system with education and advocacy programs. HERS is financially supported by thousands of people who use their services and specifically deny contributions from pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers of medical equipment. The HERS Foundation examines and testifies to federal agencies on issues such as drug and medical device reporting and informed consent for gynecological procedures and operations. The Hers Newsletter provides health information on the various health interests of women. They are dedicated to making the information available and accessible to every individual, regardless of their ability to pay.
Video Hysterectomy Educational Resources and Services (HERS) Foundation
History
The HERS Foundation was founded in 1982 by Nora W. Coffey and Helen E. Plotkin, as a group to provide information about alternatives to hysterectomy and surgical effects. It quickly expanded to address various women's health issues and became a clearinghouse for women's health information and advocacy.
In 2004, HERS led the first national protest against hospitals in each country for a week for a year. In 2007, HERS organized opposition to National Public Radio (NPR) for allowing looting on their airwaves from commercials for robotic hysterectomy that resulted in NPR pulling ads.
HERS has counseled over 875,000 individuals and provided information to millions of people worldwide through broadcast, print and World Wide Web. The organization's website is multilingual, offered in English, French and German. [3]
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Goals and programs
The purpose of the foundation is to provide comprehensive information about treatment alternatives and the effects of hysterectomy (removal of the uterus) and the castration of women (removal of the sex glands, ovaries). They help individual women around the world by providing one-to-one counseling, doctor referrals, litigation support, free library of books, scripts, videos and DVDs, 6,000 articles of annotated medical journals, women-to-women networks, newsletters, information pamphlets in English and Spanish, regional lectures and regional conferences [4] [5]. HE is committed to the ideal that every woman has the right to information necessary to make her own health care decision. They encourage women to openly discuss with their doctors about the effects of medical care and surgery. They raise public awareness about the large number of hysterectomies performed without the information required for informed consent.
Current projects
"HERS 2010 Hysterectomy Conference" US Women's Congress Carolyn B. Maloney will be Keynote Speaker at HERS Twenty-Eighth Hysterectomy Conference on April 24 in New York City. Maloney is well known and highly respected for his defense of women's rights. The Indiana representative, Bruce Borders, lawmaker who introduced the hysterectomy approval bill, will also speak at the conference. The border will provide an insider's perspective on the opposition and support it has received for Indiana House Bill 1366. In addition to meeting expert speakers and networking with other women and men who want to become more educated on this issue, this conference is an opportunity to show politicians. that hysterectomy informed consent legislation is very important. http://hersfoundation.org/conference.html
"un become" In February 2005, HERS produced drama about the physical, political, economic, and social impact of hysterectomy. UN BECAUSE by Rick Schweikert airing Off Broadway at the 45th Street Theater and has been done in 25 other cities. In 2005 a UN show BECOME with Off-Broadway original players was filmed by Eric Marciano and American Montage [6]. Barbara Seaman, author of the Largest Women-Ever Experiment: Exploding the Estrogen Myth , states, "Every woman, man and child should see this game!"
Female Anatomy: Female Organ Function is a short educational video produced by the Hers Foundation in 2007 [7]. It has been viewed over 1,200,000 times on websites including YouTube [8], Google, MSN, Yahoo and the HERS Foundation http://hersfoundation.org/.
Hysterectomy: The Experts Speak Out is a blog written by the HERS Foundation that provides public access to the experiences of buried and castrated women who are told in their unedited words. This blog provides an in-depth analysis of misinformation of patient education provided to women by doctors and hospitals and provides a platform for women to voice their experience [9].
The words H http://www.hersfoundation.com/hword/written by Nora W. Coffey and Rick Schweikert, discussing general reasons for hysterectomy are recommended, diagnostic studies to be done to obtain a diagnosis, an alternative treatment and risks, and strategies to help women cope with the continued impact of removal of the uterus and ovaries. It revolutionizes our understanding of women's anatomy and the function of the female organ that is important for life. This reveals a solution to the complex problem of hysterectomy performed without the information required for informed consent. It takes a firm view of the hysterectomy environment in America - gynecological information does not want you to know about 100 years of hysterectomy in America.
Selected coverage
- Money [10]
- Time [11]
- Boston Globe [12]
- Los Angeles Times [13]
- New York Times [14]
- 20/20 [15]
- US. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) [16]
External links
- Female Anatomy Video: Female Anatomy Function
- Paying for a Bailout: How Unnecessary Medical Procedures Burden the System
- Sanctions of Violence Against Women: "fraud in inducement"
- The American Heart Disassociation
- Interview with Natural Mom with Nora W. Coffey
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