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The Skeptics Guide #889 - Jul 23 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Do You Need a Colposcope?

D and c dilation is like a scraping of the endometrium, which is thei lining of the uterus. It's also often an abortion procedure, but in my case it was just used to test the tissue for displasia or neoplasia. A leap is a loop electro surgical excision procedure where they cut a chunk of your servix out. They do not give you any drugs for this - there's no anaesthesia either. For some women they're well tolerated, but for me they're very painful. And i had begged and pleaded with my doctor id said, can we just do a leap? But she didn't want to remove perfectly healthy tissue from your servic because

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