on women in the private hospital where he worked. Rebecca Gomperts was born and raised in the Netherlands and was training to be a doctor in Amsterdam.
Guinea was different. Its extremes shocked her. She treated women suffering the consequences of botched . She watched women bleed out and die.
She rushed to help women who staggered into the hospital, hemorrhaging.So when given the chance, of course she wanted to learn how to perform safe terminations.
Almost three decades later, what she remembers most about her training is how the French doctor instructed her—how he reached for a curette, a metal instrument that looks like a dollhouse teaspoon, and showed her how to use it to scrape the uterus of tissue.No textbook.
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