Louise P King
Biographic Data
| ID | 4513121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise P King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise P |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING L P |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-2807-6085 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How Dobbs May Influence the Geographic Distribution of Medical Trainees in the United States
Third- and fourth-year U.S. medical students applying to residency were surveyed between August 6 and October 22, 2022, to assess the impact of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (Dobbs) on medical student residency application location choices. Across all medical specialties, most respondents were unlikely or very unlikely to apply to one or more residency programs located in a state with abortion restrictions (57.9%) and were consider…
Abortion restrictions and medical residency applications
Residency selection is a challenging process for medical students, one further complicated in the USA by the recent Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization ( Dobbs ) decision over-ruling the federal right to abortion. We surveyed medical students to examine how Dobbs is influencing the ideological, personal and professional factors they must reconcile when choosing where and how to complete residency. Between 6 August and 22 October 2022, thi…
What Does Our Tolerance of Poor Management of Patients’ Pain Have to Do With Reimbursement Inequity for Office-Based Gynecologic Procedures
Office-based gynecologic procedures (OBGPs) are reimbursed at lower rates than similar office urology and dermatology procedures. But there is a broader "hidden curriculum" in health professions training that perpetuates clinicians' and organizations' acceptance of these patterns of poor reimbursement, disincentivizes research on improving OBGP pain management, and exacerbates tolerance of poor control of patients' OBGP pain. This article suggest…
A nation unprepared
People centric policy is needed to create a clean cooling pathway for UK homes
As the climate continues to warm, overheating is becoming increasingly common, creating a range of heat-health issues, and leading to a growing demand for space cooling. How that cooling is provided is important, as there are passive and low impact options available, as well as more environmentally damaging active cooling. Without policy intervention, air conditioning (a form of active cooling) could easily become the default solution for cooling…
Ending Restraint of Incarcerated Individuals Giving Birth
Advocates have long suggested making shackling incarcerated people during childbirth illegal. Yet exceptions would likely still allow prison personnel to implement restraint and leave clinicians no course for freeing a patient. This article argues that clinicians' assessments of laboring individuals' clinical needs must be prioritized, ethically and legally. This article also explains that, without strong policies in place, some clinicians will n…
Australian transnational vocational education and training provisions
In an era of globalisation and economic competitiveness, Australia plays a major role in assisting other countries’ governments to build their workforce through the provision of vocational education programs. This is referred to as transnational education. It encompasses any educational service or product offered by an educational institution based in one country to students in another. The advantages of the provision of these programs include ex…
A Reluctant Critic
The majority of obstetrician‐gynecologists in practice operate very infrequently. Most residents graduate with strong surgical skill sets, given residency requirements. Nonetheless, their practices become dominated by obstetrics, and their gynecologic surgical skills deteriorate. While cesarean sections are surgical in nature, the skill sets needed in these surgeries differ from the skills used in general gynecologic surgery. As gynecology has ta…
Fostering Discussion When Teaching Abortion and Other Morally and Spiritually Charged Topics
Best practices for teaching morally and spiritually charged topics, such as abortion, to those early in their medical training are elusive at best, especially in our current political climate. Here we advocate that our duty as educators requires that we explore these topics in a supportive environment. In particular, we must model respectful discourse for our learners in these difficult areas
Autonomy in Tension
Respect for autonomy is a central value in reproductive ethics, but it can be a challenge to fulfill and is sometimes an outright puzzle to understand. If a woman requests the transfer of two, three, or four embryos during fertility treatment, is that request truly autonomous, and do clinicians disrespect her if they question that decision or refuse to carry it out? Add a commitment to justice to the mix, and the challenge can become more complex…
It's “the End of Sex” As We Know It, and I Feel … a Little Nervous
Reading Henry Greely's wonderful book, The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction, while riding public transport sparked awkward looks and equally awkward discussions. I thought of removing the dust jacket, yet I was reminded that Greely's stated purpose in writing the book was to spark conversation. The title is, of course, intentionally provocative. Greely does not, in fact, believe that humans will stop having sex for the multitude of…
Should Clinicians Set Limits on Reproductive Autonomy
As a gynecologic surgeon with a focus on infertility, I frequently hold complex discussions with patients, exploring with them the risks and benefits of surgical options. In the past, we physicians may have expected our patients to simply defer to our expertise and choose from the options we presented. In our contemporary era, however, patients frequently request options not favored by their physicians and even some they've found themselves onlin…
How Should Clinicians Counsel a Woman with a Strong Family History of Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease about Her Pregnancy
Counseling patients regarding the benefits, harms, and dilemmas of genetic testing is one of the greatest ethical challenges facing reproductive medicine today. With or without test results, clinicians grapple with how to communicate potential genetic risks as patients weigh their reproductive options. Here, we consider a case of a woman with a strong family history of early-onset Alzheimer's disease (EOAD). She is early in her pregnancy and unsu…
Educating Patients as Medicine Goes Green
When a patient challenges the use of a reusable, stainless steel speculum rather than a plastic, throw-away one, the physician should educate her on the safety and environmental benefits of reusable medical devices
Laborist Staffing Requires Careful Attention
arrived at a large, urban hospital in active labor at 23 4/7 weeks. She was a patient of Dr. Greene but registered under the care of Dr. James, a laborist employed by the hospital. Mrs. Lawrence was carrying an extremely low-birthweight fetus with a poor prognosis. When the fetal heart tracing became nonreassuring, Dr. James counseled her to undergo an emergent cesarean delivery. Just as Mrs. Lawrence was being prepped for the surgery, Dr. Greene…
Why We Can't Turn Our Backs
The editor for Virtual Mentor for April 2008 introduces the issue on the theme of medical care for US immigrants. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Sex Selection for Nonmedical Reasons
Physicians who specialize in assisted reproductive technology should advise parents-to-be of the health and psychosocial risks of preimplantation sex selection for nonmedical reasons. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Government Policy and Regional Development
Regional unemployment patterns and the spatial dimensions of macro-economic policy
The persistence of relatively high unemployment rates in certain regions of many western industrial countries is well-established. These problems have been acknowledged, in part, in macro-economic labour market policies and also in regional economic development programmes. The paper re-examines the spatial dimensions and components of regional unemployment in Canada by way of an analysis of monthly unemployment data for 1966-75 for some 33 econom…
Conceptual limitations and data problems in the fashioning of growth pole strategies
Wage‐rate Change in Urban Labor Markets and Intermarket Linkages
Wage-rate change in Urban labor markets and intermarket linkages
Testing Hypotheses of Polarized Growth within a Central Place Hierarchy
A general method for testing hypotheses about spatial polarization with respect to an exogenously determined growth pole already has been published [3] and later extended to encompass a multiplicity of poles of different orders [4]. In this paper the method is extended to allow for the testing of hierarchical polarized growth. The latter is here defined as the dynamic pattern in a central place setting wherein the level of growth at any point in …
Cyclical Fluctuations in Unemployment Levels in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Quantitative Geography
Economic impulses in a regional system of cities
King L., Casetti E. and Jeffrey D. (1969) Economic impulses in a regional system of cities: A study of spatial interaction, Reg. Studies 3, 213–218. This paper presents a model of the transmission of economic impulses through a system of cities. A partial testing of the model is attempted with respect to unemployment rates recorded in thirty-three cities in the American Midwest over the period April 1960 to September 1964. City unemployment serie…
Regional unemployment patterns and the spatial dimensions of macro-economic policy
The persistence of relatively high unemployment rates in certain regions of many western industrial countries is well-established. These problems have been acknowledged, in part, in macro-economic labour market policies and also in regional economic development programmes. The paper re-examines the spatial dimensions and components of regional unemployment in Canada by way of an analysis of monthly unemployment data for 1966-75 for some 33 econom…
Government Policy and Regional Development
The Formalization and Testing of Concepts of Growth Poles in a Spatial Context
This paper commences with a discussion of the formal characteristics that economic growth in a spatial setting must possess in order to be legitimately regarded as polarized growth. The conditions both for the case of a single growth pole and for the case of several growth poles are considered. A method is then outlined for determining whether or not spatially polarized growth does occur in a particular context, the method being illustrated by us…
Optimal Transportation Patterns of Coal in the Great Lakes Region
centers throughout the region. This demand is associated with the coking plants and utility plants in the region. Second, the productive capacities and rates on the major transportation routes are given. These particular empirical features of the coal distribution system do not appear to have been described elsewhere in the geographic literature. It should be stressed that the major emphasis in the paper is on the actual modelling of a real-world…
Testing Hypotheses of Polarized Growth within a Central Place Hierarchy
A general method for testing hypotheses about spatial polarization with respect to an exogenously determined growth pole already has been published [3] and later extended to encompass a multiplicity of poles of different orders [4]. In this paper the method is extended to allow for the testing of hierarchical polarized growth. The latter is here defined as the dynamic pattern in a central place setting wherein the level of growth at any point in …
Wage-rate change in Urban labor markets and intermarket linkages
People centric policy is needed to create a clean cooling pathway for UK homes
As the climate continues to warm, overheating is becoming increasingly common, creating a range of heat-health issues, and leading to a growing demand for space cooling. How that cooling is provided is important, as there are passive and low impact options available, as well as more environmentally damaging active cooling. Without policy intervention, air conditioning (a form of active cooling) could easily become the default solution for cooling…
Cyclical Fluctuations in Unemployment Levels in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Economic impulses in a regional system of cities
King L., Casetti E. and Jeffrey D. (1969) Economic impulses in a regional system of cities: A study of spatial interaction, Reg. Studies 3, 213–218. This paper presents a model of the transmission of economic impulses through a system of cities. A partial testing of the model is attempted with respect to unemployment rates recorded in thirty-three cities in the American Midwest over the period April 1960 to September 1964. City unemployment serie…
Statistical Analysis in Geography
Quantitative Geography
The Formalization and Testing of Concepts of Growth Poles in a Spatial Context
This paper commences with a discussion of the formal characteristics that economic growth in a spatial setting must possess in order to be legitimately regarded as polarized growth. The conditions both for the case of a single growth pole and for the case of several growth poles are considered. A method is then outlined for determining whether or not spatially polarized growth does occur in a particular context, the method being illustrated by us…
Optimal Transportation Patterns of Coal in the Great Lakes Region
centers throughout the region. This demand is associated with the coking plants and utility plants in the region. Second, the productive capacities and rates on the major transportation routes are given. These particular empirical features of the coal distribution system do not appear to have been described elsewhere in the geographic literature. It should be stressed that the major emphasis in the paper is on the actual modelling of a real-world…
Cyclical Fluctuations in Unemployment Levels in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Wage‐rate Change in Urban Labor Markets and Intermarket Linkages
Wage-rate change in Urban labor markets and intermarket linkages
Testing Hypotheses of Polarized Growth within a Central Place Hierarchy
A general method for testing hypotheses about spatial polarization with respect to an exogenously determined growth pole already has been published [3] and later extended to encompass a multiplicity of poles of different orders [4]. In this paper the method is extended to allow for the testing of hierarchical polarized growth. The latter is here defined as the dynamic pattern in a central place setting wherein the level of growth at any point in …
Conceptual limitations and data problems in the fashioning of growth pole strategies
Government Policy and Regional Development
Regional unemployment patterns and the spatial dimensions of macro-economic policy
The persistence of relatively high unemployment rates in certain regions of many western industrial countries is well-established. These problems have been acknowledged, in part, in macro-economic labour market policies and also in regional economic development programmes. The paper re-examines the spatial dimensions and components of regional unemployment in Canada by way of an analysis of monthly unemployment data for 1966-75 for some 33 econom…
Sex Selection for Nonmedical Reasons
Physicians who specialize in assisted reproductive technology should advise parents-to-be of the health and psychosocial risks of preimplantation sex selection for nonmedical reasons. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Laborist Staffing Requires Careful Attention
arrived at a large, urban hospital in active labor at 23 4/7 weeks. She was a patient of Dr. Greene but registered under the care of Dr. James, a laborist employed by the hospital. Mrs. Lawrence was carrying an extremely low-birthweight fetus with a poor prognosis. When the fetal heart tracing became nonreassuring, Dr. James counseled her to undergo an emergent cesarean delivery. Just as Mrs. Lawrence was being prepped for the surgery, Dr. Greene…
Why We Can't Turn Our Backs
The editor for Virtual Mentor for April 2008 introduces the issue on the theme of medical care for US immigrants. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Educating Patients as Medicine Goes Green
When a patient challenges the use of a reusable, stainless steel speculum rather than a plastic, throw-away one, the physician should educate her on the safety and environmental benefits of reusable medical devices
Autonomy in Tension
Respect for autonomy is a central value in reproductive ethics, but it can be a challenge to fulfill and is sometimes an outright puzzle to understand. If a woman requests the transfer of two, three, or four embryos during fertility treatment, is that request truly autonomous, and do clinicians disrespect her if they question that decision or refuse to carry it out? Add a commitment to justice to the mix, and the challenge can become more complex…
It's “the End of Sex” As We Know It, and I Feel … a Little Nervous
Reading Henry Greely's wonderful book, The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction, while riding public transport sparked awkward looks and equally awkward discussions. I thought of removing the dust jacket, yet I was reminded that Greely's stated purpose in writing the book was to spark conversation. The title is, of course, intentionally provocative. Greely does not, in fact, believe that humans will stop having sex for the multitude of…
Should Clinicians Set Limits on Reproductive Autonomy
As a gynecologic surgeon with a focus on infertility, I frequently hold complex discussions with patients, exploring with them the risks and benefits of surgical options. In the past, we physicians may have expected our patients to simply defer to our expertise and choose from the options we presented. In our contemporary era, however, patients frequently request options not favored by their physicians and even some they've found themselves onlin…
How Should Clinicians Counsel a Woman with a Strong Family History of Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease about Her Pregnancy
Counseling patients regarding the benefits, harms, and dilemmas of genetic testing is one of the greatest ethical challenges facing reproductive medicine today. With or without test results, clinicians grapple with how to communicate potential genetic risks as patients weigh their reproductive options. Here, we consider a case of a woman with a strong family history of early-onset Alzheimer's disease (EOAD). She is early in her pregnancy and unsu…
Fostering Discussion When Teaching Abortion and Other Morally and Spiritually Charged Topics
Best practices for teaching morally and spiritually charged topics, such as abortion, to those early in their medical training are elusive at best, especially in our current political climate. Here we advocate that our duty as educators requires that we explore these topics in a supportive environment. In particular, we must model respectful discourse for our learners in these difficult areas
A Reluctant Critic
The majority of obstetrician‐gynecologists in practice operate very infrequently. Most residents graduate with strong surgical skill sets, given residency requirements. Nonetheless, their practices become dominated by obstetrics, and their gynecologic surgical skills deteriorate. While cesarean sections are surgical in nature, the skill sets needed in these surgeries differ from the skills used in general gynecologic surgery. As gynecology has ta…
Australian transnational vocational education and training provisions
In an era of globalisation and economic competitiveness, Australia plays a major role in assisting other countries’ governments to build their workforce through the provision of vocational education programs. This is referred to as transnational education. It encompasses any educational service or product offered by an educational institution based in one country to students in another. The advantages of the provision of these programs include ex…
Ending Restraint of Incarcerated Individuals Giving Birth
Advocates have long suggested making shackling incarcerated people during childbirth illegal. Yet exceptions would likely still allow prison personnel to implement restraint and leave clinicians no course for freeing a patient. This article argues that clinicians' assessments of laboring individuals' clinical needs must be prioritized, ethically and legally. This article also explains that, without strong policies in place, some clinicians will n…
How Dobbs May Influence the Geographic Distribution of Medical Trainees in the United States
Third- and fourth-year U.S. medical students applying to residency were surveyed between August 6 and October 22, 2022, to assess the impact of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (Dobbs) on medical student residency application location choices. Across all medical specialties, most respondents were unlikely or very unlikely to apply to one or more residency programs located in a state with abortion restrictions (57.9%) and were consider…
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