My good friend Anastasia Turchetta and I co-wrote this article for the latest RDH Magazine. It became a real “passion project” for us – the more we researched, the more we wanted to shout the statistics from rooftops. Almost a third of all women fall into a category of abuse at some point in their lives. Look around your office – your employees and coworkers – I bet you have more than three women in the vicinity. One of them is likely to have been or will be a victim.
This is an important topic – with very real repercussions for all involved persons. I hope you read the article and pass it along. This month features Part 1 of a two-part series. I’ll post the link when next month’s issue is available.
Read Part I in RDH Magazine: Domestic Violence
Excellent job. Amazingly difficult to get the message out there and the articles into the journals. My wife (a DV nurse) and I co-wrote an article for the Journal of the Canadian Dental Association on the topic as well. The cause can not be trumpeted enough. Remind all you’re readers that they are already seeing these patient (even if they don’t know it) but have to ask the questions and look for the signs. I now ask all of my female TMJ and trauma patients about it.
Thank you for stopping in – it’s a cause that needs more voices, definitely. If you’d like, I would be happy to write up an entry linking to your article. Very good point about asking the TMJ patients about it – I haven’t read too much about that connection.
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