by Elizabeth Shadigian, MD

Drawing on the actual experiences of women, WomanSafeHealth: The Antidote to Status Quo Health Care uses cartoons and humor together with analysis and compassion to reveal what it means to meet a woman’s health care needs. Status Quo Health Care is a term coined at WomanSafeHealth to describe the poisoned care most women experience – hurried, depersonalized, cold, disrespectful, profit-driven – care that neglects her individual story and choices.

At WomanSafeHealth each woman is a person, not a disease; a client, not a number. She is the focus, and her health care team is her consultant.
Prescribing self-awareness, care analysis and personal empowerment as antidotes to Status Quo Health Care, Elizabeth affirms what every woman already knows: safety and respect must be the core of health care.

Links

Non-Profits

• Battered Women and Children’s Memorial Garden
• Alzheimer’s Association

Governmental

• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
• State of Michigan Victim Compensation

Medical

• American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
• American Medical Association (AMA)
• Epocrates
• North American Menopause Society (NAMS)
• Online Diagnosis Code Search

Empowerment Pocket Guides

The links below are for the first versions of our four WomanSafeHealth Empowerment Pocket Guides. Each guide is meant to be printed double-sided, cut down the middle lengthwise, and folded twice. Permission is granted to download, make copies, and distribute these guides as long as no changes are made. We would love your feedback as we revise them for future editions!