OBGYNs on the difficult decision to leave abortion ban states
www.salon.com
“It pushed me to the point that I decided to move my family,” one said
  •  pohart   ( @pohart@lemmyrs.org ) English
    7•2 years ago

    I’d like to see some stats on this. I know that many areas are very already short of OBs and a single doctor leaving will leave peoplev without a doctor, but I’d like to know how many women will be without appropriate non-abortion care because of this.

    •  NotThatKindofDoctor   ( @NotThatKindofDoctor@reddthat.com ) English
      7•2 years ago

      There are some interesting stats in here (not exactly what you’re looking for but it’s just more of the story):

      https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/23/1177542605/abortion-bans-drive-off-doctors-and-put-other-health-care-at-risk

      Here are some stats I thought were interesting:

      • An early indication of that impending medical “brain drain” came in February, when 76% of respondents in a survey of more than 2,000 current and future physicians say they would not even apply to work or train in states with abortion restrictions.
      • While applications for OB-GYN residencies are down nationwide, the decrease in states with complete abortion bans was more than twice as large as those with no restrictions (10.5% vs. 5.2%).
      •  pohart   ( @pohart@lemmyrs.org ) English
        4•2 years ago

        Yuck. And that 76% isn’t even OB-GYN specific. I was looking for something about the scope of the impending problems for women’s and prenatal care, but this gives a clear indication that it could be huge for men’s and pediatric health in a way i hadn’t even considered.

    •  half_fiction   ( @half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
      3•2 years ago

      Yeah, hopefully there is a public health organization working on compiling these numbers because this has got to be snowballing into a major crisis. I remember reading an article like 6 months ago about some area where the last maternity ward had closed (there used to be multiple.) The hospital was still there, just maternity and now there just isn’t one within a couple hundred miles. Like… What the fuck? I don’t know what the solution is but this cannot be acceptable.