"Please provide us with the date, time, location in which these incidence occurred"

I have written multiple times to our state public health director regarding critical problems in women’s health care in Georgia. I said we must have someone tell us what to do with women who are being denied services in public health. I told her, (in September) “I have spoken to three women in the last week who have called and said the health dept in Floyd, Chattooga and one in Paulding County are all refusing services to women because they have a history of abnormal pap and thus are too 'high risk' (patient's words) to be seen in the health dept. Then, because their paps are not up-to-date, they also cannot get their birth control pills. . .” [I also discussed the impossibility of getting affordable STD services, care for abnormal pap smears or up-to-date contraceptive methods, refusal to care for IUD problems after public health had inserted the IUDs for women, etc.] . . .
Today, the Georgia Family Planning Program Manager writes to me, “In Public Health, we pride ourselves on being able to provide quality care to the customers we serve. If you have received negative feedback from our customers; then we would appreciate the opportunity to make it right. Please provide us with the date, time, location in which these incidence occurred.”
My response: OMG, OMG, OMG—Lynn, there are not enough minutes in the year to document all of these problems and they’ve all been shared with public health already. But, happy reading, this documentation should get you started: Why did we start this clinic? http://alturl.com/uqgy

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