CONTRACEPTION IN PRIVATE PRACTICE

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Abstract
The contraceptive service reported here developed within a general family practice in a residential suburb of a large city. The initial impulse to study contraception came twenty years ago from the requests of professional patients acquainted with the beginnings of a literature on the subject. An enduring stimulus has been provided by the succession of women patients in distress from unwise pregnancies. In the last ten years it has become a routine matter to discuss contraception with postpartum patients and to teach better methods whenever they are needed and welcomed. INDICATIONS The indication for contraceptive knowledge and advice is, broadly considered, marriage. Of course, some patients have come in the late thirties or early forties because they wished to have no more children, and others have been referred because of obvious physical or mental contraindications to pregnancy. But in recent years an increasing number of young women have come to

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