Ali Block
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard Oct 2023
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The chances of hiring new ones was impossibly slim.
The clinicians and people of Sandpoint are still trying to figure out what this all means for their community.
And the four OBs who left, they're not alone.
For many clinicians, in the wake of Dobbs, it's become impossible to disentangle the care we're allowed to offer from the kinds of lives we're able to lead.
For part two of today's episode, we talked to one clinician who was faced with the impossible decision of whether to stay or go.
Meet Layla.
I am a maternal fetal medicine physician and abortion care provider.
Layla was born and raised in Georgia and left the state for the first time after finishing med school to do her maternal fetal medicine fellowship in St.
Louis.
That's where her story starts today, at the tail end of fellowship with a job offer she felt she couldn't pass up.
The clinic was in Chattanooga, Tennessee, at one of the six abortion clinics in the state.
The seventh had been burned down by anti-abortion activists a few months earlier.
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At the time, abortion in Tennessee was legal up to viability, which generally happens around 24 weeks.
She'd be navigating a mandatory 48-hour waiting period and a variety of other trap laws, but that was nothing new for her.
After all, she'd done all her training in conservative states.
They moved into their house with the big porch, and pretty soon she had her first day at the University of Tennessee.
This was the first time she'd be operating as an attending physician without supervision.
Layla said there was just no way she could have known ahead of time what working in such a restricted place would look like.
Layla was happy.
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