I have spoken before about my first trip to the gynecologist at the age of 16. I went to see my mother’s doctor, a jolly man who was about six feet five and weighed in at about three hundred and fifty pounds. Not intimidating at all. It is a memory that is burned in my …
At a very young age we are taught the evolution of a relationship. “First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes Pari with the baby carriage.” This conditioning creates a natural reflex well into adulthood. When your eyes see someone find love and marriage, your mouth immediately opens and out you blurt, “So…when are you …
Dr. Pari was featured as a guest contributor in the article below, originally posted for Glamour Health by Korin Miller. Odds are you don’t think twice when you need to visit the ob-gyn—you just call up your doctor’s office, make an appointment, and show up when you’re told to. But what do female ob-gyns do when …
It is Sunday morning and the euphoria of Saturday night’s escapades starts to wear off as the reality of the new dawn sets in. You Had Unprotected Sex. You then begin to frantically look around the room for your clothes so that you can make a run for it and go call your girlfriends to …
I am an advocate of the birth control pill and believe it is easy to use and has relatively low side effects, but it only works if you remember to take it! If you can’t remember to take a pill daily and need something effective long- term contraception options such as an IUD or a …
Probably since the time you discovered her, your vagina has been a source of mysticism. This one body part of yours can bring intense pleasure, annoying pain and even be the passageway for a new human. In short, your vagina is amazing. As a gynecologist, I often find that for a body part that is …
When people think of organ transplantation it is usually in the setting of a life or death matter. It becomes obvious that it is necessary to incur the risks of organ transplantation to save a life, but is it worth the same risks to carry a child? As many have recently read, this past week …
Dr. Pari was featured as a guest contributor in the article below, originally posted for SELF by Korin Miller. Girls star Lena Dunham was hospitalized over the weekend after suffering from a ruptured ovarian cyst. Dunham, who has publicly documented her battle with endometriosis, a painful disorder in which tissue that normally grows inside the uterus grows outside of …
I was in the fifth grade, a month away from my eleventh birthday. I came home from school, said hi to my grandmother and my mom, kicked off my Keds, and dropped my denim backpack onto the kitchen table. I made my way into our bathroom, casually pulled down my white Guess jeans, and discovered …
I am a whole six years older than my mother was when she gave birth to me, her first- born child. In addition, I am single and have no father of a baby in sight. Even though my parents are very proud of my professional accomplishments, I can tell that they are starting to wonder …