focus -WSS

focus

author：entertainment 2025-09-30 23:07:26 - browse：2

Physicians Alison Block and Nikki Zite knew what they were getting into when they became abortion providers early in their medical training. Family planning has long been a politicized, divisive area of medicine. And even though they knew that Roe v. Wade — the 1973 Supreme Court case that protected abortion access across the country — was being threatened, it still hit them hard when that ruling was actually overturned in June 2022.

“I thought I was preparing myself. For years I was telling anybody who would listen, ‘Roe is getting overturned! Roe is getting overturned!’ ” Block said. “But just because you say that you know a hard thing is coming, doesn’t mean you’re actually emotionally prepared for that hard thing.”

The pair joined me on the First Opinion Podcast for a conversation about the frustrating and heartbreaking consequences of living in a post-Roe America for providers, trainees, and patients.

Our conversation was based on Block’s recent First Opinion essay, “Brain drain, skills loss, and other unintended consequences of overturning Roe v. Wade.” You can hear more from Block and Zite on the podcast “The Nocturnists.”

Be sure to sign up for the weekly “First Opinion Podcast” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Previous article： Continuity nursing helped my family in our darkest PICU moments
Next article： Shifting the focus from loneliness to social health

hotspot

WSS

How housing is health care on Long Island

Ionis drug prevents swelling attacks due to hereditary angioedema

ASCO24: AstraZeneca won cancer’s big meeting. Can it fulfill its $80B ambition?

FDA panel endorses Alnylam’s heart drug — after picking it apart

A common UTI test for kids haunts adults as a traumatic 'nightmare'

Change Healthcare can notify patients about the breach, HHS says

explore

focus

focus

In Memoriam: Notable people who died in 2023

ASCO: AstraZeneca says CAR

How one medical school became remarkably diverse

ASCO: Palliative care found as helpful given virtually as in person

Guidelines to prevent youth baseball injuries need more muscle

Let's speed up science by embracing open access publishing

DIEP, the 'gold standard' of breast reconstruction, is under threat

ASCO: AstraZeneca's Tagrisso greatly slowed some lung cancers

Apple is now the first public company to be valued at $3 trillion

ASCO24: AstraZeneca won cancer’s big meeting. Can it fulfill its $80B ambition?

Wikipedia

Will the IRA bring competition to the biologics market?

Intellia reports positive results for its CRISPR

How medical schools plan to diversify without affirmative action

Will the IRA bring competition to the biologics market?

Generate Biomedicines machine learning biotech raises $273M

PEPFAR is under serious threat — and so is global health

entertainment

Wikipedia

hotspot

leisure time