Dr. Troy Robbin Hailparn was interviewed by Disruptive Women’s Wendy Grossman.

Dr. Troy Robbin Hailparn, is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecology. She received her BA in Psychology from Barnard College of Columbia University and her MD with distinction in Reproductive Endocrinology from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

At the end of this post, you will find not one, but two polls. We hope you will respond to these and share your opinions.

Gynecological surgeon Dr. Troy Robbin Hailparn thinks the labia is the most ignored female body part.

She was the first female physician trained to perform laser vaginal rejuvenation, labiaplasty and the very controversial hymenoplasty.

In 2007, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology released a committee opinion against vaginal rejuvenation.

Dr. Hailparn wants to change their mind.

At the May annual clinical meeting, Dr. Hailparn plans to present her 500 labiaplasty patients, and the 11 reasons she’s discovered women have the surgery. Of those women only 70 out of 500 had the procedure for cosmetic reasons.

“Everybody thinks it’s a cosmetic procedure,” Hailparn tells Disruptive Women. “It’s not. People think it’s like genital mutilation. It’s not.”

Dr. Hailparn took the time to talk to Disruptive Women about why the work she does is so important to so many women and should be endorsed by ACOG and covered by health insurance.

DW: So, what are the reasons you’ve found that women have labiaplasty?

TRH: The big reasons are: clothing, exercise and activities and intercourse. The labia get pulled in and out with intercourse, so that can be painful.

DW: Oh God.

TRH: Whether it’s one lip or both lips they get pulled in and out. Think about the woman who has to actually move them out of the way in a spontaneous moment because she knows and anticipates it and she has to shove them out of the way because he’s about to enter. Somebody living with this extra tissue has to accommodate. Sitting, exercising, or clothing are the big three. They can’t fit comfortably. They can’t walk because they have chronic irritation or chafing. They tuck them up to get them out of the way. They stuff them up into the vagina to get them out of the way.

DW: Oh God. (more…)

It seems like the childhood obesity epidemic is in the news nearly every day–as America’s kids seem to be super sized. In New York City, a judge upheld the city’s 2007 regulation requiring most major fast-food and chain restaurants to prominently display calorie info on their menus.

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On Jan. 26, Los Angeles mom, Nadya Suleman, made national news giving birth to octuplets. Now she’s stirred up controversy and debate about whether fertility treatments should be regulated. It turns out Suleman is 33, single, unemployed, lives with her mother — and already has six children. Knowing this, should her doc have allowed her to try and have eight babies at once? According to her mother, she only wanted “one more girl.”

Since the goal of most fertility treatments is to get one healthy baby — doctors usually implant a smaller number of fertilized embryos.

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The confirmation process can be bumpy. Recently, for those of us in the health arena, it has been a somewhat disruptive one. Thomas A. Daschle, nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, made income tax errors that resulted in $146,000 in back payments and withdrew his nomination today.

What do you think – should he have stayed or should he have gone?

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A recent Washington Post-ABC News poll found that over three-quarters of Americans think Obama should make major reforms in our health care system, and a majority think he should start working on health care right after taking office.

What do you think? Share your opinions by responding to our poll:

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Change.
Definitely the word of 2008.
Along with change comes disruption.
This is a great time to roll out our new addition to the Disruptive Women blog – a weekly poll.

To launch our new poll, we are asking for your feedback:

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