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Safe Sex: What Advice Do You Tell Patients? - Mary Ann Shostek

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Physician assistant Mary Ann introduces herself, provides advice about having safe sex, and describes gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease (STD).

Mary Ann:
Hi, I am Mary Ann Shostek. I am a physician assistant – certified physician assistant here at The Center for True Harmony & Wellness in Mesa, Arizona. We typically see OB patients here, as well as women for their physical exam, well woman visits, Pap smears, and focus consults regarding any problems that they may be having or issues.

Well, when we speak with patients here about safe sex typically it would be a younger woman who is coming in maybe for their first annual exam, maybe to get started on birth control, maybe someone who is getting married in the near future. So we counsel them on the ways to make sure that they are safe, protect themselves from being exposed to STDs, sexually transmitted diseases or infections, and typically we talk to them about the ways to that, which would be either abstinence or using condoms or other protective measures.

Gonorrhea is an infection, a pelvic infection, usually travels together with chlamydia. We haven’t really seen a lot of big incidents of gonorrhea in our clinic but we do see quite a bit more of chlamydia. We used to think that those two always travel together but that’s not been the situation here; we see more chlamydia than we do gonorrhea.

About Mary Ann Shostek, P.A.-C.:
Mary Ann is a Physicians Assistant. She graduated from Arizona State University in 2001 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and went on to pursue a Master’s degree in Medical Science, graduating from the Physician Assistant Program at Midwestern University, Glendale, Arizona in 2004. Mary Ann’s experience is in Women’s Health – specializing in fertility.

Visit Mary Ann at The Center for True Harmony, Wellness & Medicine

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