The Hardest Words: Finding Courage in Your Consultation Room
You’ve seen it before. The long pause before the history.The way she looks at the floor.The way she starts three sentences and stops before she finishes any of them.And then, finally — she says it.
Female genital cutting affects millions of women across the Gulf and East Africa. Many of them are your patients right now — they just haven’t told you yet.Deinfibulation is not a complex procedure surgically. But most OB-GYNs in the GCC have never been formally trained in it. Which means when she finally finds the courage to ask, the answer is too often: “Let me refer you to a specialist.”She doesn’t need a specialist. She needs her doctor — the one she already trusts — to be able to help her.
The key principles of deinfibulation: midline incision extending to the natural vaginal opening, not beyond it. Sharp dissection only — diathermy causes scarring that replicates the original problem.The most common error is incomplete opening, leading to re-adhesion within 6 months. The second most common is failure to suture the mucosal edges — the step that prevents re-fusion and is frequently omitted.Video 16 covers the full procedure — 6 minutes, clean technique, including the critical mucosal edge management step.
She waited years to have this conversation. She chose you.Video 16 is 6 minutes. It gives you everything you need to say yes — and mean it.Module 4. Six vaginal surgery procedures. Including the ones nobody else is teaching.