Pelvic inflammatory disease to PID has been a factor in the lives of women in the western world for at least 500 year. It effects up to 5% of US women at sometime during their life and its effects can be long-lasting and devastating. In this episode, part 3 of 3, we discuss the treatment and prevention of PID along with a detour into antibiotics.

 

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