Patient handouts. Free, sourced, and yours to hand over.

Ten one-page handouts, each in English and Spanish. Every clinical statement is matched to professional-society guidance, a federal health agency or peer-reviewed literature, with numbered citations printed on the page so your patient — or your colleague — can check any claim.

No sign-up, no email capture, no account. Print them, hand them over, put the QR card in the exam room.

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The full set

What's in the set

Ten handouts, each one page unless noted, each carrying its own numbered source list.

  • Understanding Pelvic Organ Prolapse

  • Understanding Urinary Incontinence

  • Understanding Pelvic Floor Therapy

  • Understanding Perimenopause (2 pages)

  • Understanding Urinary Tract Infections (2 pages)

  • When Sex Is Painful

  • Bleeding After Sex

  • Recovering From a Hysterectomy (2 pages)

  • Urinary Incontinence in Men

  • Bladder Control After Prostate Surgery

Need a single handout on its own rather than the full set? Email info@mypap.com and we'll send it.

Want your practice name on them?

Email info@mypap.com with your practice name as you want it printed. We'll send the full set back with it on every page, in both languages. It costs nothing and there's no catch — patients who arrive at PAP because their doctor sent them arrive already trusting it, and that is the entire business case.

How these are built

Every handout is generated from a source-verified content file, not written freehand and checked afterwards. That has a few consequences worth knowing before you put your name on one.

  • Society guidance takes primacy. ACOG, AUGS, AUA, the Menopause Society, APTA, NIDDK, CDC and FDA. Where a society has issued guidance, that guidance sets the position.

  • The hedges are deliberate. "May." "Many." "Varies." "Your surgeon will tell you." Clinical reality is variable, and patient education that overstates certainty is its own kind of harm.

  • Where guidance doesn't exist, we say so. We don't print a number just because patients want one. The hysterectomy handout addresses the most-searched question after that surgery — when you can sleep on your side — by stating plainly that no society or health agency publishes an answer, noting that the confident schedules circulating online come mostly from mattress and pillow retailers and contradict each other, and sending the patient to the surgeon who knows where her incisions are.

  • Corrections are logged in the open. If guidance changes, the handout changes and the change is recorded.

The full process is public in our Editorial Standard. Corrections are on the Corrections page.

What's deliberately not on them

Worth stating, because a physician handing these over should know what we refused to print and why.

  • No Kegel repetition counts anywhere in the set. No society issues them as patient guidance, and most people contract the wrong muscles unassisted. Every handout routes this to a clinician assessment instead.

  • No approach-specific hysterectomy recovery timelines. "Abdominal = 6 weeks, laparoscopic = 2 weeks" is not in any society source.

  • No percentage of men who regain continence after prostate surgery. Widely quoted; not traceable to AUA or NIDDK patient guidance. The AUA's own wording is used instead.

  • No cervical ectropion as a reassuring explanation for bleeding after sex — unverifiable in any society patient source, and the explanation most likely to make someone skip the appointment.

Is there a handout your patients keep needing that we haven't written?

Tell us — info@mypap.com. We'd rather build the one you'd actually use than guess at the next four.

These handouts are patient education. They are not medical advice, not a diagnosis, and not a treatment plan for any individual patient. Last updated August 2026.