Clinical Practice Resources for Training & Education

02/06/2026

In the early 1900’s, this was what “cutting-edge cancer treatment” looked like.

A woman lies on a hospital bed, her legs suspended in fabric slings, held aloft not for comfort, but for access.

Electrical wires hang overhead. There are no imaging screens. No digital dosimetry. Just a raw beam of radiation crudely aimed at a disease doctors barely understood.

The patient had advanced cervical cancer. By spring, her case was considered hopeless. At the time this was a sentence to a slow and painful death.

So physicians tried something radical: intra-va**nal X-ray therapy. Radiation was directed straight into the va**na, aimed at the cervix, in repeated treatments lasting nearly two hours at a time.

The doctors carefully noted the position of her legs, the distance from the radiation source, the amperage of the tube because this was all being invented in real time.

And then…something unexpected happened.

The tumor began to shrink. Malignant cells responded rapidly. Her weight returned. Her blood work normalized. She reported a sense of well-being she hadn’t felt in months.

She also experienced intense nausea. What at the time they called “X-ray sickness.” The cost of hope, in an era before safety standards, before shielding, before we truly understood what radiation did to the body.

The process was published so other doctors could learn how to position the patient, how to manage the wires, how to aim the rays. It represents a moment when medicine stood on the edge of discovery and danger, crude, messy, and human.

Every modern radiation oncology suite traces its lineage back to scenes like this.

11/27/2025

10/06/2024

Human reproduction is commonly portrayed as a gigantic marathon swimming event in which the fastest, fittest s***m wins the race and prize of fertilising the egg. Yet another male dominated fantasy about the creation of life. The notion that human s***m once ej******ed, begin a frantic race to reach the egg has completely overshadowed the real story of reproduction.

A 2020 study revealed that in fact there is a communication system between the EGG and s***m. The egg has the ability to repel certain s***m with a molecular mechanism causing them to swim slower and also attract certain s***m by releasing a chemoattractant helping them move faster. Cervical mucus call L- Mucus helps filter out any low quality s***m, Bye Boy!

In the study Fitzpatrick is quoted "Follicular fluid from one female was better at attracting s***m from one male, while follicular fluid from another female was better at attracting s***m from a different male…. This shows that interactions between human eggs and s***m depend on the specific identity of the women and men involved."

Once SHE makes her choice and the s***m begins to pe*****te the egg, the egg then releases a chemical response that causes all of the other s***m's heads to pop off. Yep, mass decapitation. ⠀

And to keep things in perspective, the male s***m is the smallest cell in the human body while the female egg is the largest, who run the world?

📄:Fitzpatrick, J. L. et al 2020 chemical signals from eggs facilitate cryptic female choice in humans Proc. R. Soc.

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*Due to multiple messages I’ve received I feel the need to share that this is a process of the egg discerning for genetic compatibility and NOT a conscious process! 🙄

06/07/2023

Clinical Practice Resources team, Isle Polonko. Molly Callahan and Erik Simon after presenting at ASPE

06/06/2023

Erik Simon presenting at ASPE

06/05/2023

Molly Callahan and I are at the ASPE conference representing IGMA, the International GTA MUTA Association.

08/17/2022

Clinical Practice Resources (CPR) is looking forward to participating in The International GTA MUTA Association (IGMA) 2022 conference, “Back to the Future; Where we’ve been and where we’re going in medical education’s most effective patient empowerment model." We are proud to announce our Executive Director, Isle Polonko, is moderating the Pioneer Panel where an esteemed group of colleagues, instrumental in the founding of GTA methodology are coming together to talk about their roles in the earliest days of GTA education. Additionally, Molly Callahan, our lead GTA trainer and on site supervisor, is also IGMAs Conference Committee Chairperson. She will be moderating the entire conference, as well as presenting on Friday, December 9th, along with other GTA instructors working in the field, presenting on the positive impacts of this methodology on patient health. For more information on this phenomenal event Click Here If you want additional information on the services CPR offers, send an email to ipolonko@clinicalpracticeresources.com

11/09/2021

ASPiH Conference begins tomorrow. My trans health director and I both have presentations. Go to https://execbs.eventsair.com/aspih-virtual-conference-2021/aspih2021/Site/Register to register! Erik Simon and my presentations are in a 6:20 am EST time slot! see you there.

11/04/2021

It's here! All the hard work of this past year and it's year, the IGMA conference. December 3, 4 and 5. What an amazing event we have planned. Look at our unbelievable lineup this year! Kellie Bryant from Columbia, Jaideep Talwalker and Shafali Pathy from Yale, Olov Grankvist from Sweden, Lee Ann Miller from West Virginia University, Liana Hill from Crisis Services of North Alabama, Erin Pollitt and Sarah Bristol from DCFNE and so much more. Support this organization and our speakers by attending. Registration is kept deliberately low so people can attend. This methodology changes the way medical providers interact with patients and makes a difference in health care.. Check out the blog and join us this December!!!!!

The only professional organization dedicated to GTA MUTA methodology is hosting its 2nd virtual conference with a host of esteemed speakers.