"Call" and "Hurt"

I wrote some about the book “This Is Going to Hurt” by Adam Kay.  That book and the TV show “Call the Midwife”, now in its 15th season”, are both about women’s lives and bodies.  It is amazing that we all came out of a woman’s body.  That fact and how the process of us emerging gets started is often disguised or avoided with children until somebody thinks they are old enough to hear about what happens.

To this American with a rather sketchy understanding of medical training and the vocabulary connected to it, reading about medical training in Britain is interesting.  But I didn’t know that the training involved is in the gynecology and obstetrics field.  I read that “Call the Midwife” was very popular on British TV.  I am confident there are many paths to interest in the book and the TV series.  Both are arresting.  

Take the recent episode in the book where a young woman was unhappy with the appearance of her labia and just took some scissors to what she felt was misshaped. She bled very badly, even to the point of threatening her life.  She explained to the author that she just wanted to look normal.