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ID Op-Ed explaining why MDs are fleeing the state [View all]
If you aren’t sure why doctors are leaving Idaho, it’s because you’re not listening to them
Criminalization of doctors providing health care is dangerous for patients, for doctors and for our communities, writes guest columnist Dr. Amelia Huntsberger.
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Perhaps you missed an early informal survey from the Idaho Coalition for Safe Healthcare showing 75 of 117 physicians surveyed in Idaho answered “yes” or “maybe” when asked if they were considering leaving the state. Seventy-three of 75 respondents cited Idaho’s restrictive abortion laws as the reason.
Maybe you didn’t know that Dr. Lauren Miller told CNN that her greatest fear was “being tried as a felon simply for saving someone’s life.” Dr. Miller is a maternal fetal medicine physician, a high risk pregnancy doctor, who previously lived and worked in Boise. She now practices medicine in Colorado.
Perhaps you didn’t see the survey showing that 22% of practicing obstetricians have left the state since the abortion bans took effect according to a report by the Idaho Physician Well-Being Action Collaborative.
Criminalization of doctors providing health care is dangerous for patients, for doctors and for our communities, writes guest columnist Dr. Amelia Huntsberger.
{snip}
Perhaps you missed an early informal survey from the Idaho Coalition for Safe Healthcare showing 75 of 117 physicians surveyed in Idaho answered “yes” or “maybe” when asked if they were considering leaving the state. Seventy-three of 75 respondents cited Idaho’s restrictive abortion laws as the reason.
Maybe you didn’t know that Dr. Lauren Miller told CNN that her greatest fear was “being tried as a felon simply for saving someone’s life.” Dr. Miller is a maternal fetal medicine physician, a high risk pregnancy doctor, who previously lived and worked in Boise. She now practices medicine in Colorado.
Perhaps you didn’t see the survey showing that 22% of practicing obstetricians have left the state since the abortion bans took effect according to a report by the Idaho Physician Well-Being Action Collaborative.
https://idahocapitalsun.com/2024/04/16/if-you-arent-sure-why-doctors-are-leaving-idaho-its-because-youre-not-listening-to-them/
I've got nothing to add to this one, because it explains the issue better than an idiot like me every could.
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