Population Matters

I am very pleased that two articles will be published later this year. One will appear in Friends Journal, the preeminent Quaker magazine in this country. Its title is: “The Vital Need for Family Planning and Abortion Services.” I wrote it in part due to a thoughtful article that appeared earlier this year, “My Personal [...]

Mull Over these Videos—7-2010
© Richard Grossman MD, 2010
One of the funniest videos I have ever seen is a French advertisement for glue: http://www.canneslions.com/lions/lightbox.cfm?sub_channel_id=103
The video opens with a pair of young nuns strolling in a cloister. Music is playing as the nuns carry bouquets of spring flowers. When they approach a white marble sculpture of a [...]

Happy Birthday to “The Pill”—5-2010
© Richard Grossman MD, 2010
It was fifty years ago that the Food and Drug Administration approved “the pill”. What a half-century it has been!
The birth control pill made it possible for couples to have sex without concern about pregnancy. True, before hormonal contraceptives there were other contraceptives—but the condom, diaphragm and [...]

Beware of Technology—6-2010
© Richard Grossman MD, 2010
The chief cause of problems is solutions.
(Eric Sevareid)
I once sat on an airplane next to an engineer specializing in failure analysis. I told him about my “rip-stop” condom invention, which I hoped would be less likely to tear. “I’ve never had a condom break,” he said. Then his face [...]